By The Federal Roads Maintenance Agency paid out N407,202,332.14 on training, workshops, seminars and retreats in 30 payments between 13 November 2023 and 29 December 2025, a SecretsReporters probe of the official payment records has shown. The agency exists to maintain federal roads. In the same period its money went out, payment after payment, to law firms, training consultants, a healthcare company, travel agents and solar light contractors, for courses on emotional intelligence, interpersonal skills, resilient culture, defensive driving and the capacity building of its own legal officers.
Every one of the 30 payments fell on the watch of Engr. Dr. Chukwuemeka Chijioke Agbasi, appointed Managing Director of the agency by President Bola Tinubu on 13 October 2023. The first training payment left the agency exactly one month after his appointment. The last one left two days before the end of 2025.
The biggest single payment went to a law firm. On 29 September 2025, the agency paid N50,709,302.54 to Ivy Crest Solicitors as part payment for a training and workshop on capacity building of the agency legal officers and other selected staff. The payment records carry those two words themselves, part payment. What the full price of the workshop is, the records do not say.
Ivy Crest Solicitors is a full-service law firm with offices in Maitama, Abuja and Lekki Phase 1, Lagos. Its Principal Partner is Dr Michael Uwaechie, called to the Nigerian Bar in 2007 and to the New York Bar in 2011. The firm lists among its own notable references a PPP capacity building engagement delivered for this same agency, built on the World Bank CP3P modules, so the September 2025 workshop was not its first paid work for the roads agency. On the Corporate Affairs Commission register, the name Ivy Crest Solicitors stands as a business name, registration number 2372801, marked inactive, registered on 5 November 2015. A differently named company, Ivy Crest Advisory and Consulting Limited, collected the first two training payments of the Agbasi era, N6,408,000.00 on 13 November 2023 for a four-day bespoke capacity building course for relevant staff of the agency, and N5,340,000.00 the same day for the Batch C of the same programme, billed to hold in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.
The second firm to open the account was a drivers’ school bill. On 23 November 2023, the agency paid N5,795,348.84 to 3SO Global Ltd for the course fee for training 28 of its drivers on a corporate drivers improvement course for effectiveness and safety. The drivers of the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency would be trained again and again in the two years that followed, by company after company, at public expense.
On 7 December 2023, the agency paid N15,886,500.00 to Jayna Global Concept Ltd for the training of 51 members of staff on understanding government legal services. On 22 December 2023, it paid N9,934,883.72 to Kingsgrace Consulting Services for a course on emotional and artificial intelligence, described in the records as a panacea for efficient and effective delivery. On the Corporate Affairs Commission register, Kingsgrace Consulting Services stands as a business name, registration number 2635617, marked inactive, registered on 2 August 2018. Two days later, on Christmas Eve 2023, the same Kingsgrace Consulting Services collected N9,674,093.03 more for a five-day workshop on developing leadership skills for efficient and effective public service delivery at Keffi, Nasarawa State, and Omkiolepel Global Ltd collected N7,787,500.00 the same day for training on legal issues in the workplace for legal personnel and administrative officers.
The legal training money kept moving. On 16 March 2024, Omkiolepel Global Ltd was paid N8,223,600.00 for a course on strategies for effective legal and human resources management training. The agency that maintains roads had by then paid for legal training under four separate billings in five months.
Two of the 30 payments were not classroom bills at all. On 27 March 2024, the agency paid N31,635,700.00 to Fresh Thinkers Limited for the supply and installation of solar powered street lights and the training of youths on installation and maintenance of solar street lights in Dusuman Ward of Jere Federal Constituency, Borno State. On 13 September 2024, it paid N24,968,622.33 to Mushad Concept Integrated Limited for the supply and installation of solar powered street lights and the training of youths on installation and maintenance in Maiduri Ward of the same Jere Federal Constituency. Both sit inside the training total because the training of youths is written into the payments themselves.
On 2 April 2024, the agency paid N18,457,130.47 to Uptown Travels Limited for air tickets for the retreat of its 6th Governing Board and the Senate Committee on FERMA, held in Lagos State. Three days later, on 5 April 2024, it paid N12,712,511.63 to BTO Prestige Global Limited for training on building a resilient culture, diversity and organisational behaviour for mid-management and senior staff, and N12,016,655.82 the same day to La-Beg Allied Ltd for training on entrenching interpersonal skills and relationship management for the senior cadre. La-Beg Allied Ltd stands inactive on the Corporate Affairs Commission register, a company registered on 2 August 2017 with registration number RC 1428389. On 16 May 2024, it paid N18,006,976.75 to Habdal Global Services Limited for the course fee for training staff on fiscal sustainability and public sector governance for executives and the directorate cadre.
The engineers were trained too, and one bill was paid twice. On 23 August 2024, the agency paid N7,202,790.70 to Joep Engineering and Consultancy Limited for engineers’ training on quality assurance and quality control for highway engineers, the ISO 9001:2015 quality management system awareness and implementation, Batch A. On 27 September 2024, it paid Joep Engineering and Consultancy Limited the identical sum of N7,202,790.70 again, for the same Batch A of the same training. Between those two payments, on 6 September 2024, Broldak County Nig Ltd collected N6,002,325.59 for training the agency’s headquarters drivers at a workshop on multi-level security and black-spot safety on the road, tagged Security on Wheels.
On 17 September 2024, the agency paid N7,164,500.00 to Nectar Role Consulting Limited for a five-day capacity development workshop for road maintenance engineers and field workers on tackling contemporary challenges on road maintenance, held at Durumi, Abuja. On the Corporate Affairs Commission register, Nectar Role Consulting stands as a business name, registration number 2870642, marked inactive, registered on 23 April 2019. On 18 December 2024, it paid N8,223,600.00 to AD-Team Ltd as registration fee for a three-day training of technical assistants for highway maintenance at the Lagos Zone.
The last day of 2024 carried the strangest entries of the whole record. On 31 December 2024, the agency paid N5,795,348.84 to Meridian Height Professional Services Ltd for a three-day training on entity risk management workshop for effective accounting and audit. On the same 31 December 2024, it paid the same N5,795,348.84 to Time Technologies Ltd for a three-day training on entity risk management workshop for effective accounting and audit, scheduled to hold at Lafia, Nasarawa State. On the same 31 December 2024, it paid the same N5,795,348.84 a third time, to Tetpearl Expert Services Ltd, for training on the same entity risk management workshop for effective accounting and audit, scheduled to hold at Lafia from 6 to 8 January 2025. Three companies, one workshop subject, one identical price, one day.
The year 2025 opened its account with the second largest payment of the series. On 27 June 2025, the agency paid N40,526,046.51 to Nectar Role Consulting Limited for a comprehensive workshop on road asset management. On 18 July 2025, it paid N6,141,000.00 to Encore Digital Ltd for a hands-on practical training on quality control testing and verification of asphalt mixtures for road construction and maintenance in Lagos. On 12 September 2025, it paid N7,202,790.70 to Muti Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Services Ltd for training its drivers on understanding traffic laws, vehicles and categories of roads.
On 19 December 2025, the agency paid N7,345,116.29 to Mainfield Training Consult Ltd for course registration for performance management and defensive driving training scheduled for 9 to 12 December 2025 at an event and conference centre in Nasarawa State. On 24 December 2025, it paid N8,530,500.00 to Magro-Biz Nigeria Limited as registration fee for a three-day training for technical personnel on road maintenance at the Rivers Zone.
Then came the healthcare company. Lifecure Healthcare Ltd is a healthcare and diagnostics company based in Abuja. On the Corporate Affairs Commission register it stands inactive, a company registered on 14 September 2015 with registration number RC 1287481. It does not build roads, it does not train procurement officers as its line of business, and it is not a management consultancy. On 27 December 2025, the official payment records show that the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency paid Lifecure Healthcare Ltd the sum of N21,056,000.00 for capacity building training on the effective and efficient procurement implementation process. A healthcare company was paid N21 million of road money to teach the roads agency how to implement procurement.
The final payment of the record came on 29 December 2025, when the agency paid N25,662,000.00 to Pitmana Consulting Ltd for training on strategic planning, translating organizational objectives into executable plans.
The Public Procurement Act demands that public money be spent through open and competitive process and for value. The payment records alone cannot show whether any of these 30 trainings was competed for, what each full contract price was, or what paper the agency holds for a workshop whose biggest single billing is described in its own records as a part payment. What the records show in full is where the money went, to whom, and for what.
No public record links any of the companies in this report to Agbasi himself, to the agency’s board chairman, Engr. Imam Ibrahim Kashim Imam, or to the Minister of Works, David Umahi, who supervises the agency. What stands on the record is the spending itself: a roads maintenance agency that spent two years paying company after company to train its lawyers, its drivers, its executives and its board, while the federal roads it was created to maintain remained the complaint of every motorist in the country.
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