{"id":39136,"date":"2026-07-09T07:24:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T05:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=39136"},"modified":"2026-07-09T07:24:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T05:24:31","slug":"nigeria-president-orders-probe-into-950-000-ghost-agency-discovered-inside-presidency","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/nigeria-president-orders-probe-into-950-000-ghost-agency-discovered-inside-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria President orders probe into $950 000 \u2018ghost\u2019 agency discovered inside Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s President Bola Tinubu has ordered an immediate investigation after a completely fake government agency was discovered operating right inside his own office, walking away with nearly a million Dollars in public funds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Officials say fraudsters successfully forged an official letter to set up the dummy entity, called the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council. The fake council managed to siphon $950 000 in state money before anyone noticed something was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The scandal has caused a massive stir in Nigeria, with opposition politicians and activist groups calling for a completely independent inquiry into how a scam of this scale could happen inside the nation&#8217;s highest office.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Police have already questioned three staff members working in the Presidency and are currently hunting for Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew, the man who claims to be the agency&#8217;s Director. Matthew faces forgery and impersonation charges in court later this month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While he insists the council was legally set up two years ago to bring foreign investment into Nigeria, investigators say they cannot find a single record of any deal the agency has ever actually done.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14514,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-39136","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Tinubu orders probe into $950 000 \u2018ghost\u2019 agency discovered inside Presidency","published_date":"2026-07-09 07:22:34","news_description":"Tinubu orders probe into $950 000 \u2018ghost\u2019 agency discovered inside Presidency","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39137,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39136\/revisions\/39137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=39136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}