{"id":93,"date":"2026-08-21T18:44:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T18:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendsmill.com\/?p=93"},"modified":"2026-08-21T18:44:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T18:44:27","slug":"pfipc-scandal-deepens-as-icpc-discovers-another-fake-government-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendsmill.com\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"PFIPC Scandal Deepens as ICPC Discovers Another Fake Government Office"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">The controversy surrounding the alleged fake Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) has taken another turn following the discovery of a separate organisation operating from a federal government compound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">The ICPC said it uncovered the <strong>National Brands Development and Made in Nigeria Special Project Office<\/strong>, which it described as an illegal organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">The body was reportedly allocated office space within the premises of the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, giving it access to a location associated with Nigeria\u2019s federal administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">The discovery comes after investigators previously uncovered two other fictitious agencies allegedly linked to Adeniyi Adeyemi, the self-acclaimed Director-General of the PFIPC. Those agencies were identified as the FCT Investment Promotion Agency and the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency and Public Private Partnership. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">The expanding investigation has now placed greater attention on the procedures through which organisations gain recognition, office space and access to government institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2 wp-block-paragraph\">The Federal Executive Council has also ordered a forensic investigation into the PFIPC scandal and the institutional weaknesses that may have allowed alleged fake agencies to operate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The controversy surrounding the alleged fake Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) has taken another turn following the discovery of a separate organisation operating from a federal government compound. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow7J_NDA:productID":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trendsmill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_1013.jpg?fit=588%2C441&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendsmill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendsmill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendsmill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendsmill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendsmill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendsmill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendsmill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendsmill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendsmill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendsmill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}