The focus has always been on politicians but at different corners in every homes and offices, on the alter and and in different gatherings people are really doing the nation bad. Until we all realise that lasting change begin at the individual level, nothing is gonna change.
I bought over 50 ceiling fans, 40 standing fans, 50 orthopedic mattresses - where are they?
- Moment Nasarrawa APC lawmaker reacts after discovering hospital allegedly sold his donated fans, mattresses
Video Credit : Nasarrawa Mirror // TikTok
If this had happened in Nigeria, our media houses will milk the story dry and Nigerians will be on SM with all the vile words. When the west accuse Africans of being corrupt, it's not because they are better in character but that their act of corruption is institutionalized.
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STATEHOUSE STATEMENT
Re: The Matter of Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew and the fictitious Presidential Economic Advisory Council
We are aware of the public interest in the matter of a man called Adeyemi Adeniyi Matthew, who has been parading himself as the director-general of a fictitious Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council cum Presidential Economic Advisory Council.
The office of the Chief of Staff to the President first blew the whistle on the existence of the illegal agency, following complaints from officials of the Nigerian Investment Promotion Council that another government agency appeared to be functioning at cross-purposes with it.
The Chief of Staff, on October 17, 2025, in a letter, asked the DSS and the Police to probe the activities of ‘fraudsters and imposters’ forging appointment letters purportedly from his office.
“The attention of this office has been drawn to the activities of certain individuals and groups engaged in the forgery of official appointment letters purportedly issued from my office. The fake documents, bearing falsified signatures, reference/folio numbers, and seals, have been used to claim leadership appointments to non-existent entities, with particular reference to the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council.
“The aforementioned entity under the leadership of one Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew as Director-General is said to have an office at the Federal Secretariat Complex Phase 111, 2nd Floor. Also, they have been parading themselves as a legitimate government agency, hosting meetings with both foreigners and Nigerian citizens, and even going so far as to request a note verbale from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the United States of America to facilitate visas for some of their staff.
“The above development not only constitutes a serious criminal act but also undermines the integrity of the presidency and the credibility of official government communication.
“I therefore urge you to initiate a thorough investigation to identify and apprehend those involved and also to uncover the network facilitating the forgery,” the Chief of Staff wrote in his petition to the security agencies.
The letter to the security agencies was accompanied by a copy of the forged appointment letter, a copy of the request for a note verbal to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and pictures of engagements obtained from the illegal agency's website.
Around the time the Chief of Staff lodged the complaint with the security agencies, the existence of the fake agency had raised concerns within the Foreign Affairs Ministry.
In a letter on October 15, 2025, the Foreign Affairs Ministry wrote to the office of the National Security Adviser and the Chief of Staff to the President, requesting clarification on the status of Adeyemi’s agency. The letter, which Ambassador Anderson Madubuike signed, followed Adeyemi’s October 10 meeting with ambassadors at the Wells Carlton Hotel and Apartments in Asokoro, without recourse to the ministry.
“This act contravenes extant rules and regulations guiding diplomatic practices globally,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in its letter.
On October 20, the Office of the National Security Adviser wrote to the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, on the request of the Foreign Affairs Ministry.
On 29 October, the OSGF wrote to the Chief of Staff requesting clarification. “This has become expedient owing to several requests from governmental and non-governmental bodies seeking to ascertain the status of the appointment under consideration”
Two days earlier, the Chief of Staff sent his own clear rebuttal to the Foreign Affairs Ministry, stating that he had never issued an appointment letter to Adeyemi as director general of the fake presidential foreign investment promotion council. The Chief of Staff could not have issued a letter of appointment to a non-existent agency. Moreover, the Chief of Staff does not make appointments or write letters, as these are the exclusive preserve of the Office of the Secretary of the Government of the Federation.
On November 5, 2025, the Chief of Staff responded to the OSGF, again flatly denying Adeniyi Adeyemi and his spurious agency. “Prince Adeniyi Matthew, director-general of the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council, is unknown to any office, nor do we have any dealings with the said council.
“My attention was drawn to a letter of this purported application, which is fake, and my office has instructed the police and other relevant security agencies to carry out investigations on the person and the entity he claims to represent”, the chief of staff wrote.
The Police made the first move by responding to the chief of staff's letter dated 17 October and began their investigation. On 27 October, Adeyemi was arrested in Abuja at the Secretariat office where he operated his elaborate scam.
The police searched the office and Adeyemi’s home in Suleja, recovering vital documents and exhibits. In Adeyemi’s statement to the police, he claimed that one Dolapo Babatunde Tanimola assisted him in procuring the fake appointment letter. Following his claim, the police went after the said Tanimola. The Police found that Tanimola died in a fire incident at Kachi Hotel in Abuja on 22 October, five days before Adeyemi’s arrest. Tanimola’s body was seen by the police at the morgue, confirming the death.
The police were able to establish that the agency Adeyemi purportedly headed was fictitious, that he forged his appointment letter and the documents recovered in his office and home, that he falsely paraded himself as a government appointee, and that he falsely solicited a note verbal from the Foreign Affairs Ministry to enable him and his staff to obtain US visas. The police also found that Adeyemi operated 34 bank accounts, with nine opened in the names of his fictitious agencies, known as the FCT Investment Promotion Agency and the Public Private Partnership (FIPA-APP), and the FCT Investment Promotion Act.
The Police found that Adeyemi, using the fake documents he created, fraudulently opened a CBN account by misleading the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation. According to the police, no government money has been transferred into the account.
“The act of the suspect constitutes criminal forgery, impersonation and obtaining by false pretence, thereby bringing the office of the Chief of Staff to the President and the Presidency to disrepute before the public and international community”, the police wrote in the report of the investigation conducted by the assistant commissioner, Kabir Mogaji.
Based on their investigations, the police filed an eight-count charge at the Federal High Court in Abuja against Adeyemi and two of his accomplices on November 27, 2025. He is due in court on July 27.
Adeyemi was on police bail when he recently claimed that the Chief of Staff had appointed him as DG of the fictitious agency. This claim contradicted his statement to the police in November last year. His new claim prompted the Chief of Staff, on June 8, to issue a disclaimer consistent with earlier advisories that the man, called Adeyemi, is an impostor.
The case of Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew is a clear case of a con artist who appears to have built a web of false claims to deceive unsuspecting government officials and the public into playing by his scam book. He has a history of fraudulent misrepresentation. In November 2016, he paraded himself as an ambassador and President-General of the World Youth Organisation (WYO), an affiliate of the United Nations (UN). He claimed to have been elected in New Delhi, India. The local media celebrated him until the UN denied the existence of such a body.
Politicians and members of the public who are weaponising Adeyemi's claim against the Chief of Staff should refrain from swallowing his narrative hook, line and sinker. They are advised to await the trial of Adeyemi and his accomplices, as well as the court's judgement, as comments made today are sub judice.
Bayo Onanuga
Special Adviser to the President,
Information and Strategy,
July 1, 2026
Imagine the FG was constructing all the roads or managing all the hospitals or managing all the civil servants, how chaotic would it have been?
Meanwhile, FG parastatals been efficient than state paradtatals is not true for all states
I have never seen a state government institution or facility that is better run than their federal counterparts.
* Federal universities generally rank above most state universities.
* Federal Government Colleges are better run than state government colleges
* Federal teaching hospitals offer more specialised healthcare than state hospitals.
* Federal roads are better built and maintained than state roads.
* INEC, despite its imperfections, conducts more credible elections than State Independent Electoral Commissions.
* The federal civil service is generally more structured than state civil service.
If performance is the benchmark, why does Tinubu think states can run police better than the federal government?
I think there should be a retraining for program anchors to reduce noise on their programs. There cant be talks in both ways, anchors should be able to concede to their guest for few seconds when conversation is about to degenerate so as to ensure sensible and clear conversation.
Q: You've called Mr President [Tinubu] the problem of the PDP in the past, among other derogatory things. You have called the APC government derogatory names in the past.
You were the presidential spokesperson of Atiku Abubakar in 2019 and 2023. You even said the 2023 election was credible, and today you are praying for Mr. President upon the state police matter. Where are you, Mr Sowunmi?
Here is what PDP chieftain Segun Sowunmi had to say....
#CTVMorningBrief
@LegendaryJoe Meanwhile, i hope the rhythm of your heartbeat would be in sync with your favourite tune on the said date, I may like to watch with you if its in Lagos.
What is the point of this?
How much has been paid in ransom for kidnapped victims per year?
How much lives has been lost to insecurity?
How much does the FG budget for security and defence yet we are where we are?
How much does each state Governor budget for security vote?
If each state employs 20,000 state police officers
This is the salary bill in year
Only salaries
If we peg salary at a flat rate of 90,000
Monthly cost per state: 90,000 × 20,000 officers = 1.8 billion
Monthly cost for all 36 states: 1.8 billion × 36 states = 64.8 billion
Total annual cost: 64.8 billion × 12 months = 777.6 billion
This is minus running cost and other sundry costs
TOO POOR TO SIN...
To the pauper, luxury is an infraction, "How can I spend N1M on ordinary shoe, will it walk me to the path of light and salvation?" Coming from someone Palmpay may shoot on sight for forging his death certificate over N10,000 loan.
"I can't cheat on my wife!"
Noble principle, no one should cheat at all, not even on themselves, but before you cast the first stone, ensure you can also afford the sin.
Like I warned Gbads, the serial contestant, he who is being fed shouldn't feed dogs, he failed to heed wise counsel, deemed himself man-enough, commissioned his third leg for horizontal refreshment outside sacred matrimony, angered mummy and the ungrateful dog was expelled to scavenge for crumbs, our dear potential Governor is now a social media Influencer, blocking critics with reckless abandon, AMEN.
He could also have been one of the interim saints too unpriviledged to sin who once firmly condemned the immorality of others only to the point they can also afford the sacrilege, and they become worse off. Till you can afford that N3M watch, you prejudge in vain your frugality;
Promiscuity is never pro bono, till you can sponsor the immorality, you may just be unintentionally decent, chastity may actually not be your calling.
A N200K phone in hands of a fellow whose entire networth is less than N1M, yet finds fault in a million Naira shoe gracing the feet of a Billionaire.
Every Activist is a phantom Mandela, an illusory Lee Kuan Yew, possessing imaginative mastery of Leadership and some mystic crystal ball of innovative solutions...The leaders can do no right in their eyes and all is wrong, evil and witless by their standards till they themselves find themselves in some position of authority, then we come to the unfortunate realization that the loudest critics are usually tyrants seeking opportunities.
Ask Samuel Doe, Ask Mugabe... Ordinary key to a movement's treasury given to the Auchi Funmilayo Ransome Kuti, our hijabist cashtivist became a pole dancer, almost stripping to the melody of bank alerts.
Football pundits are always Ferguson behind the Mic, until they actually get to manage a club, then Gary soon realized that management isn't Garri, Talk is Cheap.
Empty barrels are the loudest. Adam Smith Kalu has a financial model for every economic challenge only to conclude no one can own a home even on N1M monthly salary, our dear financial guru must have thought we all want to be neighbors to Linda or only mansions qualify to be called homes.
In all your getting, get understanding, so you grasp the realities that presidency in Nigeria isn't Papacy, you need not be knighted to govern. Capacity is the Key.
Good Morning Severally.
(1st Posted in April 2023)
Dear Lagosians,
I have directed an immediate scale-up of waste evacuation across Lagos following the recent build-up of refuse in some parts of our state.
LAWMA, LASEPA, and the Ministry of Environment are currently working around the clock. We have deployed extra trucks and personnel to clear the backlogs across all affected neighbourhoods. You should already see progress on the streets and we will not stop until our city is completely clean again.
Lagos generates over 13,000 tons of waste every single day. Managing this requires a massive effort but our determination to fix the current challenge is absolute.
As we continue this cleanup, I ask for your partnership. Please bag your waste properly and avoid dumping refuse in drainage channels or on the roads.
We are fully on top of this situation. Let us work together to keep Lagos clean and safe for everyone.
This is very sad watch. Very sad thatvSA govt allowed this to fester and unchecked. Where are the police?
Why are these people running freely and harassing immigrlants doing their business legally? This is so sad.
'If I lock my shop and leave, over 35 South Africans will be displaced'
- Nigerian man resists shop closure amid ongoing xenophobic attacks in South Africa.
Video Credit : NTU Zuma TV // X
Sad to hear of the passing of veteran actor, Chief Kola Oyewo. A true icon of Nigerian theatre and cinema, he graced our screens with unforgettable performances in Saworoide as Oba Lapite, The Gods Are Not to Blame, Sango, Koseegbe, and many other classics. He was 80 years old.
May his soul rest in peace.
Hon Akin Alabi
Ajia Olubadan of Ibadanland
But he said nothing when your fellow South african witch hunted their own fellow blacks in the worst manner and going as far as been fatal. Where was your voice???
𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮’𝘀 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗺𝘀 𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘁 𝗯𝘆 𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁
“Africans have always supported other African countries in every World Cup tournament, but I can’t figure out why our own case is different,” South Africa captain Ronwen Williams said. “Many Africans supported Mexico, not us, the South Africans. We almost shed tears, but it’s truly sad. As Africans, let’s stand for each other, let’s stand together.”
𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲: https://t.co/16yGTYieru
@RepRileyMoore@POTUS Its funny how you try to insert yourself, trying to claim credit for every Nigeria progress, slow it down a bit please. State police conversation has been in discussion before your visit to Nigeria amd before your one sided narative. You didnt start nothing.
@HananyaNaftali So, Israel must continue bombing and killing while other nations fold their hands and watch their contries and livelihood destroyed, right?
@alimaxion@LegendaryJoe A govt with foresight will provide jobs first and let intending adults make decisions on marriage. In that case they'll be able to cater for themselves and their children.