By A SecretsReporters probe of the official payment records of the Energy Commission of Nigeria shows what Dr Mustapha Abdullahi did with the commission he took over on 24 October 2023. Five companies that did not exist when he assumed office as Director-General collected N3.35 billion from the commission. Four of the five were registered within six weeks of the day he took charge. The fifth was registered in December 2024. Every payment to all five was made on two days, 9 and 10 May 2026, and every payment was recorded as a 30 percent mobilisation fee, the advance an agency hands a contractor before the first day of work.
Stonebridge Engineering Services Limited was registered on 29 November 2023, five weeks into the tenure, with registration number RC-7242800. On 9 and 10 May 2026 the commission paid it N993.27 million in four payments, each one a 30 percent mobilisation fee for the supply and installation of alternative power and sustainable energy systems in Niger State, Abeokuta South West, Ogun West Senatorial District and Imeko Township. Two of the four payments were identical to the kobo, N248,350,027.74 each, paid on consecutive days for two different locations.
Fourstars Multi-Services Limited was registered a day before Stonebridge, on 28 November 2023, with registration number RC-7240970. On 10 May 2026 it collected N496.65 million in two payments of exactly the same amount, released the same day under two different payment numbers, both recorded as 30 percent mobilisation fees for energy systems in Sango Ota and Agosasa in the South West. Two jobs, two payment numbers, one sum, one day.
Mubash Innovations Limited and H and H Solutions Logistics Limited were both registered on 5 December 2023, six weeks into the tenure. Their registration numbers, RC-7251477 and RC-7251915, sit in the same registration run. Both companies file the same address at Birgi Plaza, Wuye, Abuja, and company filings name the same two people behind both of them: Adesegun Fatai Abayomi, holding 70 percent, and Adesegun Modinat Morenike, holding 30 percent. Together the two companies collected N1.37 billion. Mubash took N620.71 million in three payments on 9 and 10 May 2026 for alternative power supply in Kebbi State and solar mini-grids in Abeokuta and Idogo. H and H took N744.71 million in three payments on 10 May 2026 alone, and two of those payments were N248,324,847.39 each, the very sum Fourstars had been paid twice that same day.
Pinnakle Innovations Nigeria Limited was registered on 12 December 2024, with registration number RC-8134764, fourteen months into the tenure. On 10 May 2026 it collected N496.49 million in two payments, both 30 percent mobilisation fees, for illumination systems in Cross River and Delta States and alternative power units for selected communities in Anambra State.
The Public Procurement Act 2007 demands demonstrated capacity and open competitive selection before public money moves, and it obliges an agency to satisfy itself that a bidder is genuinely registered and able to do the work. Not one of these five companies had traded for a single day when Abdullahi took office, and the money that reached them was not the price of finished work but advances paid ahead of it. A company born weeks into a chief executive’s tenure and fed federal advances in identical sums is the classic footprint the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act 2000 was written against. It is a red flag standing on the public record. It is not, by itself, proof of wrongdoing, and no verdict of guilt is made here.
K&H Consultancy Limited stands in a worse place on the same record. On 21 October 2024 the commission paid it N804.39 million in a single payment for the construction and installation of 3-in-1 solar streetlights in selected communities in Jigawa State. No registration record for the company could be located on the Corporate Affairs Commission register through any searched variant of its name. A search that finds nothing does not prove that a company does not exist in law. What the record proves is that the commission paid that money to a name the companies register cannot produce, and defeating exactly that kind of opacity around public funds is what the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act 2022 was enacted to do.
The commission’s payments to its own chief executive were laid out in How Energy Commission of Nigeria DG Mustapha Abdullahi moved N103.5m to his own name, and its earlier streetlight awards in Azaman.
Embassy Tours Limited completes the picture. On 10 May 2026 it received N49.67 million in two identical payments of N24,836,879.34, both recorded as mobilisation fees for solar streetlights in Idemili North and South Federal Constituency in Anambra State. The company was registered on 5 April 2010, with registration number RC-879273, and its status on the Corporate Affairs Commission register is inactive. A tours company standing inactive on the register, paid for solar streetlights in two identical payments on a single day, is the precise failure the procurement law’s bidder-verification duty exists to stop before money moves.
The Fiscal Responsibility Act 2007 demands value for money and prudent stewardship of public resources. Every entry in this record was made under the authority of Dr Mustapha Abdullahi as Director-General of the Energy Commission of Nigeria, and every entry is his to answer for: the companies born in the first weeks of his tenure, the identical sums paid twice in one day, the company the register cannot find, and the inactive company paid to light the streets of Anambra. The payment records do not explain themselves. He must.
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