By Secrets Reporters
Stand at the gate of St Francis Primary School in Agidi-Mbatiav, Gboko, and you are standing at Governor Hyacinth Alia’s old school. In 2026 the state government sent this school two contracts. The first was a N165.95 million perimeter fence and gate house. The second was a N17.8 million motorised borehole with a steel overhead stand and solar pump. Between them, N183.75 million flowed out of the Benue treasury to this one small primary school. The companies that collected it cannot be found on any corporate registry on earth.
The fence went to De Raheems Concepts Limited. The borehole went to 24hrs Jet Engineering Concepts Ltd. Type either name into the Corporate Affairs Commission’s public search portal and the portal returns nothing. Search Nigeria’s corporate directories and nothing comes back. Search the general web and the only same-named business on the planet is a cleaning company in Calgary, Canada which is a different entity on a different continent. Then open Benue State’s own official contract award records for 2026, examined by SecretsReporters, and there they are: two companies with no registration record anywhere, holding N183.75 million in public contracts between them.
They are not the only ones. Four more names on the Alia administration’s 2026 awards list dissolve the same way. Mastercare LLC. Jullot Model City Ltd. Joe-Brave Technology Service Ltd. Debella Intergrated Links Ltd. Six companies, N714,875,767 in public contracts between them and not one of them can be found on the CAC register, on any Nigerian corporate directory, or anywhere else on the internet except inside Benue State’s own award records.
Beginning with the biggest haul. Debella Intergrated Links Limited – the misspelling is the Benue’s own; “Intergrated” that collected three awards totalling N273.5 million: N134.4 million for a 273-metre perimeter fence in Vandeikya, N67 million for a fence and gate house in Makurdi, and N72.1 million for the renovation of RCM Primary School, Poor, in Makurdi. Searches under both the official misspelling and the corrected “Integrated” return nothing on the CAC portal, nothing on the corporate directories, nothing on the web and despite collecting more than a quarter of a billion naira for school works has no website.
Then there is Mastercare LLC, and the name itself is what jolted our newsroom reporters to take a second look. “LLC” is not a Nigerian legal form as no company can be registered as an LLC with the Corporate Affairs Commission. Yet there it sits in the state’s award records, handed N138.5 million on 16 July 2026 as a “consultancy to facilitate acquisition of medical equipment from Denver, USA” for the Ministry of Health and Human Services.
There is a real Mastercare LLC in Denver, Colorado which is a residential treatment facility for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, whose listed director and owner is one Paul Frank Ogedegbe. A treatment home is not a medical-equipment procurement consultancy, and the Benue award names no address, no officer and no registration to connect the two. What connects them is a name and a city, and nothing else. Other American companies share the name too such an insurance firm in Washington State, a senior-care franchisor in Texas, all in unrelated lines of business, none with any link to Nigeria. The consultancy that took N138.5 million of Benue’s health money has no registration record in Nigeria. The name exists abroad, on companies that do other things. The contractor does not exist in any record that matters.
The remaining awards are the smallest on the register, like boreholes for primary schools and the hardest to verify. Jullot Model City took N26.72 million and N26.74 million for motorised boreholes at LGEA Primary School, Selagi, in Konshisha and LGEA Primary School, Adikwase, in Vandeikya. Joe-Brave Technology Service took N23.95 million and N23.92 million for boreholes at LGEA Primary School, KM 2 Gboko Road, in Makurdi and LGEA Primary School, Atsor, in Gwer-East. And 24hrs Jet took its two N17.8 million boreholes – one at the governor’s old school, the other at NKST Primary School in Naka, Gwer-West with both awarded on 8 January 2026, among the first contracts of the budget year. Six real schools in six real communities across six local government areas. Not one of these borehole contracts has any public trace beyond the award records: no commissioning photograph, no community report, no mention anywhere that the water ever flowed.
The law is plain about what should have happened before a single naira moved. The Public Procurement Act demands that every bidder possess the legal capacity to enter a contract and capacity begins with existence on a corporate register. An award to a name with no registration record is an award to a name that cannot lawfully contract, cannot be sued, cannot be traced, and cannot be held to account. Benue state government under a Reverend Father as a governor records name the companies, the schools, the sums and the dates but what they cannot produce is the companies themselves.
