{"id":39707,"date":"2026-07-15T20:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T18:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=39707"},"modified":"2026-07-15T20:41:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T18:41:18","slug":"fugitive-behind-fake-government-agency-caught-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/fugitive-behind-fake-government-agency-caught-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Fugitive behind fake government agency caught in Nigeria \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The man who allegedly ran a fake government agency right out of the Nigerian President&#8217;s office has been arrested after spending weeks in hiding.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew, who passed himself off as the Director-General of the fake &#8220;Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council&#8221;, was tracked down and arrested in southwestern Osun State.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The arrest comes after the Federal High Court in Abuja issued a warrant for Matthew, who failed to show up for a court date to face charges of forgery and impersonation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The case has captured the public&#8217;s attention across Nigeria, especially after President Bola Tinubu ordered a corruption probe into the fake council last week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23505,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-39707","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Police catch boss of Nigeria's fake 'ghost agency' after weeks on the run","published_date":"2026-07-15 20:39:14","news_description":"Police catch boss of Nigeria's fake 'ghost agency' after weeks on the run","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39707","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\/39707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39709,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39707\/revisions\/39709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=39707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}