{
  "id": 2921771,
  "title": "Nine Fake Agencies Cometh",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/nine-fake-agencies-cometh",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-24T02:32:53.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "This Day",
    "slug": "this-day",
    "url": "https://www.thisdaylive.com/2026/08/24/nine-fake-agencies-cometh/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Last week, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) discovered a fake National Brands Development and Made in Nigeria Special Project Office, hidden inside Secretary to the Government of the Federation's offices. This discovery follows the scandal surrounding the fake Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council led by Mathew Adeyemi. Nigerians are now scrambling to create many more fake agencies, promising a new wave of easy money. Money is difficult to obtain in Nigeria, and the country has a long history of attempting to find quick solutions to financial difficulties, such as 419 scams, drug trafficking, money laundering, ghost workers, budget padding, kidnapping, small arms smuggling, fake currency printing, bank fraud, hacking accounts, baby factories, ritual killings, oil bunkering, pipeline vandalism, cattle rustling, and floating human rights and civil society groups. Now, with the help of Mathew Adeniyi Adeyemi and Prince George Buchi Nwabueze, Nigerians have discovered another clever scheme: creating fake agencies. This new scramble to create fake agencies may eclipse the 19th-century European Scramble for Africa, when European powers partitioned Africa.",
  "summary": "The discovery by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission [ICPC] last week of a [fake] National Brands Development and Made in Nigeria Special Project Office, neatly hidden",
  "key_points": [
    "ICPC uncovers fake National Brands Development office",
    "Fake Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council scandal",
    "Nigerians create fake agencies for easy money"
  ],
  "editors_take": "The discovery of fake agencies and ensuing scramble to create more of them reveals a pattern of Nigerians seeking quick fixes to financial difficulties, often through illicit means.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}