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CBN Deputy Governor Emem Usoro Who Was Side Chic To A Married Man Accused Of Watching Him Take His Last Breath, Buried Him Alone And Took His Death Certificate From His Wife

Secrets Reporters A formal petition delivered to President Bola Tinubu has accused Emem Nnana Usoro, Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in charge of operations, of seizing and exclusively controlling a multi-billion-Naira estate belonging to the late businessman Jerry Edirin Wesley, locking out his widow, his aged mother, and his entire extended […]

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Corruption

Stolen funds? ₦76 Billion Paid Out To Non Existing Poor Nigerians By Bola Tinubu Government Through Nigeria’s Cash Transfer Programme

Secrets Reporters In January 2024, President Bola Tinubu suspended Halima Shehu, then Chief Executive Officer of the National Social Investment Programme Agency, over the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) allegations that ₦37.1 billion while some reports put the figure at ₦44 billion had moved out of the agency’s accounts to unexplained destinations in the […]

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Corruption

RCICA Lagos: ₦303 Million Assets Uninsured, ₦7.7m Payments Tied to Regulatory Breaches Under the Leadership Of Wilfred Ikatari

Secrets Reporters   At the Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (RCICA), Lagos, a review of its financial and administrative records as of the year 2020 has uncovered a series of irregularities involving contract awards, the engagement of retired personnel, and the failure to insure assets valued at more than ₦303 million. The review, covering […]

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Corruption

How Ahmed Bolaji Nagode’s Led NAPTIN Swallowed ₦2.77 Billion in Public Fees That Never Reached Nigeria’s Treasury

Secrets Reporters The National Power Training Institute of Nigeria (NAPTIN) trains the engineers and technicians who keep the country’s electricity sector running, but documents available to SecretsReporters have found over ₦3.6 billion in irregularities across ten separate findings, and the overwhelming majority of that figure comes down to a single failure: ₦2,771,731,464.25 collected by NAPTIN […]

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Politics

Less Than Four Months to 2027 Election, Sagitarian Law Firm Asks EFCC to Reopen, Prosecute Atiku Over 2006 Financial Crimes Case

Secrets Reporters   A legal firm, Sagitarian Law Firm, has asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to reopen and prosecute a financial crimes case involving former Vice-President Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, barely four months to the 2027 election. The demand was contained in a letter dated August 27, 2026, and addressed to the Chairman […]

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Corruption

Exclusive: Nigeria’s Longest-Serving Lawmaker Nicholas Mutu Buys N1.4 Billion Buckhead, Atlanta House After 27 Unbroken Years in Nigeria’s House of Representatives

SecretsReporters A four-bedroom, five-bathroom townhome in one of Atlanta’s most prestigious addresses is registered to a Nicholas Mutu, a name that matches, exactly, Nigeria’s longest continuously serving federal lawmaker, Hon. Nicholas Mutu Ebomo of Bomadi/Patani Federal Constituency, Delta State, who has sat unbroken in the House of Representatives since 1999 and chaired its powerful Niger […]

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Corruption

Under NEPAD Nigeria, DG Princess Gloria Akobundu Hid N12 Billion By Not Keeping Proper Accounting Records At All

Secrets Reporters The New Partnership for Africa’s Development, now operating as AUDA-NEPAD, represents Nigeria’s arm of a continental development body meant to drive African Union development priorities from infrastructure to agriculture. A Federal Government audit of NEPAD Nigeria’s 2023 financial year has found over ₦28.1 billion in irregularities across thirty-one findings that indicts Princess Gloria […]

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Contract Fraud

Exclusive: How SMEDAN DG, Charles Odi Who Was Nominated By Seyi Tinubu Mismanaged ₦1.97 Billion

Secrets Reporters The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) exists to help the country’s small businesses overcome the infrastructure and financing barriers that keep them small. Documents in our possession that peeps into SMEDAN’s finances has found ₦1,967,239,964.81 nearly ₦2 billion in contract and cash-management irregularities across eight separate findings, a sum […]

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Corruption

Fed Min Of Industry, Trade & Investment Records N3.07bn in Questioned Transactions as Funds Are Misapplied, Payments Bypass Controls

Secrets Reporters   Amid the intricate paper trail of government finance, millions of naira moved through the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment in transactions that our review found were not supported by the prescribed approvals, documentation or financial procedures. The Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment (FMITI) recorded approximately N3.073 billion across […]

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Contract Fraud

Exclusive: No National Population Census Since 2006, Yet Agency Chairman Nasir Isa Kwarra Said He Spent ₦240 Billion To Count Nigerians

Secrets Reporters Nigeria has not conducted a national census since 2006. For nearly two decades, the National Population Commission has cited funding gaps, logistics failures and political hesitation as the reasons the country still does not know, with any real precision, how many people live within its borders. So when throve of information available to […]

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