By Secrets Reporters
The payment records of the Federal Ministry of Interior headquarters keep a list that should not exist. Between October 2023 and June 2026, companies that leave no trace on the corporate registry, companies the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) marks as inactive, and companies paid for work no document describes received millions of naira each from the minister’s office, every one of them without any record of competitive bidding. The recipients total over N350 million, and the papers raise no objection to any of it.
Vas Technologies Limited Abuja received N38,949,833 in a single payment. Yet there is no record of Vas Technologies Limited Abuja on the CAC portal. The company has traces in the real world, an industry award here, staff profiles there, but the portal where Nigerian companies must by law be registered returns nothing for its name. The Companies and Allied Matters Act requires every company doing business in Nigeria to be registered with the Commission, and a public office that pays an unregistered entity has broken the Financial Regulations that forbid the disbursement of public funds to unverified beneficiaries. The payment went ahead anyway, under the ministry of Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo.
E.K O Xpression Limited took N26,013,953 in one payment, and it too has no record on the CAC portal. A real human resources firm bears a similar name online, but the precise entity that collected over N26 million from the Interior headquarters cannot be found on the registry. The Public Procurement Act 2007 is explicit that only qualified bidders may participate in public procurement, and an entity invisible to the corporate registry cannot be qualified. The ministry paid it in full regardless.
Ginsau Multi Concept Ltd received N74,854,819 in a single payment. This one is on the CAC portal, but marked inactive. A company in inactive status is not permitted to trade or receive consideration for contracts, and paying one violates the same Financial Regulations that govern every naira leaving a ministry. The amount, the largest among the inactive names, moved in one transaction.
Omnibus Integrated Resources Limited collected N17,353,953 across two payments, also from a CAC portal that flags it as inactive. Truequest Global Services Ltd took N16,693,460 in one payment with the same inactive status. Ngwoke-Ngwoke and Company, paid ₦14,056,946 over two payments, exists on the portal only as an inactive business name. A business name in inactive standing cannot lawfully contract with the government, yet the Interior headquarters, under minister Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, paid all three without a pause in the records.
Then there is Halis Matrix Limited, which received N20,759,430 in a single payment. The payment description field in the records reads simply: “None”. No description of goods, no description of services, no hint of what ₦20.7 million bought. The Financial Regulations require that every payment be supported by proper documentation stating its purpose; a payment with no stated purpose at all fails that test on its face. The records show the money left the ministry’s accounts anyway.
That absence of explanation is the pattern that ties every one of these payments together. Across the full 4,406 payment records examined by SecretsReporters for the October 2023 to June 2026 period, not one names any procurement method. No competitive bidding is cited. No Bureau of Public Procurement no-objection is cited. Not for the unregistered vendors, not for the inactive ones, not for the N20.7 million paid for nothing described. The Public Procurement Act 2007 makes open competition the default for all federal procurements and places the BPP as the gatekeeper of that process; a headquarters that awards over N350 million to eight vendors without a single competitive process on record has operated outside the law on every transaction.
The minister whose office signed off these payments is Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, who took charge of the Interior Ministry in August 2023. The companies did not approach a general ministry. They were paid by the headquarters, the minister’s own office, and the documents show no competition, no due diligence of the kind the registry exists for, and no questions asked about what one vendor sold for N20.7 million.
