@DeeOneAyekooto Let us all agree that we have weak systems. Another one will happen infcat we can't get to know others is after the administration tenure ends, just like the way we saw buharis own
WATCH: Iran appears to have paired each foreign delegation at Khamenei's funeral with a politically targeted Quranic verse.
Saudi Arabia received a verse about two armies meeting in battle, one believing, one not.
Türkiye got a verse elevating those who fight over those who "sit."
The Lebanese government heard a verse about people refusing to sacrifice if asked.
Hezbollah was told "do not weaken or grieve — you are superior."
Hamas received the verse honoring men who fulfilled their covenant with God, "some have died, others are waiting."
Yemen's Houthis got a verse praising believers who fought without weakening.
Qatar received a verse about forgiveness and divine favor, read as a nod to its mediating role.
The Presidency says one man allegedly created a fake federal agency. It found its way into the national budget. It received public funds from a budget signed by the President. It operated from the Federal Secretariat. It met National Assembly leaders. It even engaged foreign ambassadors. Today, Nigerians are being told the agency never existed.
If that is true, this is no longer just about fraud. It is a national security failure. This is either a lie or a national security disaster that reflects the current state of our intelligence and oversight administration.
Think about what it means. An entity that allegedly did not exist was able to pass through layers of government without anyone stopping it. If the institutions at the centre of power could not detect it, how are they expected to stop terrorists, bring our school children home safely from abductors, fend off organised criminal networks or foreign actors exploiting the same weaknesses?
This goes beyond one individual. It exposes a state whose oversight systems may have failed at multiple levels. Nigeria does not have only a corruption problem. It has an institutional problem.
There has to be accountability. There has to be reform. Where failures are established, people should be held responsible. This should also trigger a serious national conversation about fixing the systems meant to protect the state before the next breach is even worse.
The two co-defendants named alongside Adeyemi in the eight-count charge filed at the Federal High Court under charge number FHC/ABJ/CR/2025 are identified in every official document, every police report and every media publication simply as Femi and Anu.
No surnames. No full identities. No photographs published. Two people charged in a federal forgery case involving presidential documents, a CBN account and a N1.3 billion national budget entry, are known publicly by first name only.
And both of them are currently at large.
The key witness is dead with no public history and a fire that generated no news coverage. The two named accomplices have no surnames in any public record and have not been found. Three officials from the Accountant General's office were posted to the fake agency for months and carried out no duties. The EFCC chairman visited the Federal Secretariat office. Voice of Nigeria covered the operation as a legitimate government initiative five months after the man was charged in court.
I am not drawing conclusions. July 27 is the court date and a court will determine the facts.
But a man died. He left no public trace. The fire that killed him was never reported. His co-defendants have no surnames. And the investigation that is supposed to answer all of this is in the hands of the same government institutions this operation spent months successfully deceiving.
That is where we are.
FROM EMMANUEL NWUDE TO ADEYEMI MATTHEW
The Adeyemi Matthew case is hardly shocking to anyone who remembers how Emmanuel Nwude pulled off one of the biggest 419 heists in history.
Nigeria’s most notorious 419 syndicate led by Emmanuel Nwude showed the world just how vulnerable our institutions were.
Between 1995 and 1998, Emmanuel Nwude defrauded a Brazilian bank, Banco Noroeste, of about US$242 million by financing a phantom international airport supposedly under construction in Abuja. It remains one of the largest advance-fee frauds in history. The scam, which later crashed the bank, was sustained with forged government documents, counterfeit approvals and a network of collaborators.
The Nwude syndicate bribed its way into CBN and Federal Ministry of Aviation offices and impersonated senior government officials. Nwude, posing as the then governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Paul Ogwuma, created the illusion of legitimacy by assembling the entire machinery of state such as lavish government offices, convoys, sirens and police escorts at his disposal. His victims believed they were dealing with the Nigerian government.
Three decades later, has anything really changed? Nothing! We still operate a system where ghost workers stay on government payrolls for years. Fictitious contracts are processed and paid for. Budgetary provisions mysteriously appear without legislative approval. Official documents are forged with frightening ease.
It is the same system in which a fake government agency can emerge, occupy office space in the Federal Secretariat, open official bank accounts, summon ambassadors, hold meetings with ministers and even represent Nigeria at international engagements.
In another recent case, a former Accountant General of Bauchi State allegedly secured over N40 billion in loans without the knowledge of the governor nor approval of either the State Executive Council nor the State House of Assembly. How? By working with accomplices in government and banks to manufacture Executive Council resolutions and fabricate legislative approvals.
The real crisis is that our administrative systems are so weak that official authority can be manufactured, government approvals can be forged, public institutions can be impersonated and billions of naira can move through the system before anyone notices.
Service wide vote is a financial commitment functioning as an emergency fund set aside to cover unforeseen circumstances.
2: for example, the fund was used to bring our prisoners from Ethiopia and Xenophobia victims.
3: when a dam collapses, emergency fund can be allocated.
4: only the President has the authority to spend