By Secrets Reporters
Three companies collected N22.6 billion from the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) between late 2023 and 2025, and the youngest of them was registered just five weeks after Khalil Suleiman Halilu assumed office as the agency’s chief executive on September 1, 2023, SecretsReporters can report authoritatively
Renewed Sustainable Agricultural Technologies and Solutions Nigeria Limited was incorporated on October 6, 2023. Within months it was receiving public money, and it went on to collect N8.09 billion in 16 payments for the supply of solar and diesel irrigation pumps. Corporate filings name its directors as Alhassan Ibrahim Dahiru, who holds a 33.3 per cent stake, Turqui Wisam, and one other. A company barely two months old winning billions in federal contracts sits uneasily with the Public Procurement Act’s demand for demonstrated capacity and competitive selection. It is also the obvious footprint of corrupt enrichment under the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act 2000, which targets the diversion of public resources to connected private hands.
Manufacturing and Technology Solutions Nigeria Limited took N8.06 billion in 20 payments for the procurement, assemblage and installation of equipment at the agency’s headquarters, in phases one through four. Unlike the others, it leaves almost no corporate footprint on the public company-search portals checked, a gap that makes independent verification of its ownership and capacity impossible.
Splitting billions across multiple tranches and phases is precisely the pattern the Public Procurement Act’s anti-splitting provisions target, because phased releases can be used to keep each payment below the scrutiny thresholds that apply to a single award.
Between them, these two firms absorbed nearly one-sixth of the N131.73 billion the agency paid out in 2,026 payments between October 2023 and May 2026, a concentration of public funds in a handful of young or hard-to-verify hands that the Fiscal Responsibility Act’s value-for-money principles would struggle to justify.
