By Secrets Reporters
SecretsReporters investigation into the financial records of Federal Co-operative College Oji River from November 2024 to June 2026 has unearthed startling revelations that should get the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) working if they focus on its primary duties than the chase of petty internet fraudsters
On the 9th and 10th of May 2026, the Federal Co-operative College Oji River rector, Dr Jude Obidiegwu paid exactly N271,500,000 to 92 companies. The payments, all recorded as first tranches or mobilization payments, totalled N24.978 billion. That is nearly twenty-five billion naira, disbursed in forty-eight hours, by a tertiary institution whose mandate is cooperative education.
Official payment records describe the bulk of the awards as the first tranche for the provision of transportation buses, tricycles and motorcycles for poverty alleviation in selected communities across the six geo-political zones. But the weekend’s descriptions were not uniform. Inside the same N271.5 million price envelopes, some companies were paid for the supply of 70 units of Hiace buses for community service in Lagos State, others for economic empowerment equipment and utility vehicles, and at least one for the construction of blocks of classrooms. Four different project types but one identical price tag.
Sixty-nine distinct companies appear in the 92 rows. Twenty-three payments were repeats – the same companies paid the same ₦271.5 million twice or three times on the same weekend. Brighttech Resources Limited appears three times on 9 May alone. Company filings examined by SecretsReporters show the company, RC 1713419, was incorporated on 21 September 2020 and lists its primary activity as information technology. Blue Light Gold System Limited, Lightfeed Global Services Limited, Techtap Consult Limited, Cinedox Solution Limited, Dasir Nigeria Limited and Alpuba Services Limited all appear twice, each time collecting the identical sum for different descriptions. Three of the weekend’s double-collectors are siblings in the corporate records.
Company filings obtained by SecretsReporters show Techtap Consult Limited RC 1638831, incorporated 4 December 2019), Cinedox Solution Limited (RC 1639420, incorporated 6 December 2019) and Alpuba Services Limited (RC 1639435, incorporated 6 December 2019) – sequential registration numbers, incorporated within two days of each other and sharing officers: Osho Ibukun Israel is listed as the person with significant control, Osho Juliana Paschaline as a shareholder, and John Abah Augustine as an officer of all three. Techtap and Alpuba share an identical registered address, Plot 39, Kwame Nkrumah Crescent, Asokoro, Abuja; Cinedox sits at Suite B87, Area 11 Shopping Mall, Garki, Abuja. (The payment records print the latter two with an Abuja suffix that is not part of their registered names.) The Public Procurement Act 2007 demands that public contracts pass through genuine competition between independent bidders; the filings draw three of the weekend’s biggest collectors into a single orbit.
The pattern did not start, and did not end, with that weekend. Three more N271.5 million payments followed on the 12th and 13th of May for farm roads in Anambra and roads in the Bauchi South Senatorial District. The college’s spending under Provost Dr. Jude Ejikeme Obidiegwu is organised around round numbers: 31 companies were paid exactly N447,500,000 for roads, hospitals and markets; 22 companies received exactly N188,000,000 for rice and grains; 18 companies got exactly N216,250,000 for motorcycles and keke napep under the heading “LOTS 1-20”. Identical sums on identical dates for different companies is the signature of contract splitting, not of open competitive bidding, and the Public Procurement Act 2007 requires public contracts to pass through competition before award.
Every one of the May weekend payments was a first tranche. The Financial Regulations require advances to be retired with evidence of delivery; payment records running to 16 June 2026 carry no record of these tranches maturing into delivered buses, tricycles or motorcycles. A search of public reporting found no commissioning, handover or beneficiary account matching the buses, tricycles and motorcycles programme across the six zones.
The Fiscal Responsibility Act demands that public money be applied prudently and for its appropriated purpose. A cooperative college in Enugu disbursing N25 billion in two days for vehicles, buses and motorcycles across the federation is difficult to reconcile with the institution’s own description of its mandate of training, retraining and strengthening the cooperative sector through knowledge transfer and skill acquisition, under the supervision of the Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria.
