SaharaReporters has dentified the offices and titles allocated to 91 of the persons tied to influential and highly placed Nigerians recently offered juicy appointments by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in a secretive and illegal high-stakes hiring process aimed at consolidating favour with the presidency.


The beneficiaries of the CBN’s employment gerrymandering include daughters of such figures as former Vice President Abubakar Atiku; Mamman Daura, one of the closest members of the president’s inner circle; former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ghali Na’aba; Inspector General of Police (IGP) Solomon Arase; as well as sons of Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and of Abdurahman Danbazzau, the Minister of Internal Affairs; along with a niece of President Muhammadu Buhari and at least 86 others.

The scandalous recruitment was first uncovered by SaharaReporters two weeks ago, but in the past few days, we obtained exclusive identification of the ranks assigned to each of the beneficiaries.

The leaking of the irregular hires by the CBN caused significant embarrassment for the government and the bank. The CBN’s Director of Human Resources, Chizoba Mojekwu, was redeployed to a new position as the bank’s Director of Capacity Development and IT after CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, accused her of being behind the leaking of the list.

A top official of the bank told our correspondent that Mr. Emefiele had arranged the hiring of relatives of top party leaders and powerful government officials as a strategy for ingratiating himself with the presidency and saving his job.

Even though the list earlier released by SaharaReporters had 91 names, our sources at the CBN disclosed that Mr. Emiefiele started the strategy of using job offers to woo top government officials after Mr. Buhari came into power on May 29, 2015. One source revealed that in September 2015, Mr. Emefiele hired Claire Arase, a daughter of IGP Arase.

Since concluding the hiring of the 91 persons that were outed by this medium, sources at the CBN have further disclosed that three persons related to Senate Majority Leader Ali Ndume benefitted from the largesse, as the bank hired his daughter, his son as well as an in-law.

Our sources disclosed that each Senator was reportedly given an employment slot, meaning that the Upper House alone could have put in 100 persons in the implementation of Mr. Emefiele’s political job multiplication strategy.

While some of them nominated their wards, however, we learned that others sold their slots for huge amounts of money.

SaharaReporters learnt that the CBN often went to great lengths, including tweaking the names of the beneficiaries, to hide the actual identities of the beneficiaries of politically motivated recruitment, such as using the beneficiary’s first name and his/her father’s middle name.

In that schema, for instance, the bank disguised Maryam Atiku as “Maryam Abubakar,” while the son of Dambazau became “Nagodi Abdulrahman.” In other instances, the bank used the maiden names of the hired persons instead of their married names, thus permitting Ali Ndume’s daughter access to her fat pay cheque as “Mariam Mohammed Ndume.” It is unclear how their academic and professional certificates, if any, matched these names in the bank’s human resources records.

The recruitments are illegal because the CBN failed to advertise the vacancies as prescribed by law to allow all qualified Nigerians to apply for the jobs. In addition, the bank’s “political” recruitments did not follow principle of federal character set out for employment by government agencies and other public institutions.

“Jobs were just handed to the children of ministers in the current administration,” one bank official stated.

To add insult to injury, many of the new hires were asked to pick their department of choice once their irregular employment was concluded, the source said.

The job placement ranking obtained by SaharaReporters sees some of the illegally hired persons being given higher rankings than others. This suggests that such new employees actually had years of experience in relevant fields before their employment by the CBN, but our sources at the bank affirmed that the ranks were given as gifts with a nod and a wink to some of them with no consideration for extant rules whatsoever.

Why several civil organizations have called upon Mr. Emefiele to resign his appointment on account of the scandal, neither he nor the government has responded officially.


Below is the full list of 91 people illegally hired by the CBN with their ranks:


1. Fatima Baba Shehu - Assistant Manager Step 01

2. Carpenter Barka Muhammad - Assistant Manager Step 02

3. Abiola Ologburo Adeniran - Assistant Manager Step 01

4. Akinwunmi Ayodeji Akintola - Assistant Manager Step 01

5. Abubakar Mohammed Yahaya - Assistant Manager Step 01

6. Usman Buba Jalo - Assistant Manager Step 01

7. Aduwak Laraba - Deputy Manager Step 01

8. Aina Michael O - Deputy Manager Step 01

9. Taslim Ganiyu Olalekan - Deputy Manager Step 01

10. Ethel Isioma Ojije - Deputy Manager Step 01

11. Abdulnasir Haruna - Deputy Manager Step 02

12. Iheomamere Chikezie Chikwendu - Deputy Manager Step 02

13. Solomon Ezra Monde - Deputy Manager Step 02

14. Aminu Ahmadu Dauda- Manager Step 01

15. Sunday John Momoh - Manager Step 02

16. Mustapha Mariam Bukola - Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

17. Ayoola Oluwabukola - Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

18. Adefela H. Adejuwon - Senior Supervisor 1 Step 02

19. Owoade Adedamola Kazeem - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

20. Omitokun Omolola Temitope - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

21. Ibrahim Ahmed Lawan - Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

22. Maryam Adamu Bahamas - Senior Supervisor 1 step 0

23. Olajide Tolani Kudirat - Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

24. Temitope Adeola Odunowo - Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

25. Mohammed Ameer Ibrahim Bunu - Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

26. Hajara Sani - Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

27. Abdulmalik Atta - Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

28. Nagode Abdulrahman - Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

29. Ahmed Aminu-Kano - Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

30. John Irimiya Balewa - Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

31. Na’abba Fatima Ghali -Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

32. Abdullahi Mohammed Nuradeen - Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

33. Sadiq Inuwa Baba - Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

34. Sadik Uba Sule - Senior supervisor i step 01

35. Olawunmi Adedoyin Kayode - Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

36. Ibironke Ifeoluwa Adetunbi - Senior supervisor 1 Step 01

37. Ikyembe Terseel Ikyembe - Senior supervisor 1 Step 01

38. Princewill Eva - Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

39. Abdul-hakeem Mohammed Ali - Senior Supervisor 1 step 01

40. Mbwiduffu Ibrahim Auta - Senior supervisor 1 step 01

41. Essien Innocent Joshua - Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

42. Titilayo Tola Olowoniyi - Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

43. Aminu Halimat Sadia Abdullahi - Senior Supervisor 1 Step 02

44. Abba Mustapha Shettima - Senior Supervisor 1 Step 02

45. Farida Zuhair - Senior Supervisor 1 Step 02

46. Ekayi Nyofo Shitta - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

47. Omoile Kingsley Ucheka - Senior supervisor 2 Step 01

48. Muhammed Hassan - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

49. Ukute Patrick Ewere - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

50. Ibrahim Kabir Tijjani - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

51. Maryam Abubakar - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

52. Odelola Oyekunle Isimenme - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

53. Yinusa Bilikis Orekuleyin - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

54. Muhammad Muhammad Magasa - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

55. Ayoola B Oyebanjo - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

56. Mohammad Ahmad Adamu - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

57. Alexandar Chukwuka Okakwu - Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

58. Okocha Uzoma Meshwork - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

59. Hassan Usman - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

60. Dahiru Isa Abba - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

61. Joel Ugochukwu Jones - Senior Supervisor 2 step 01

62. Ibrahim usman - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

63. Fatima Imam - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

64. Yisa Daniel Nma - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

65. Yamani Sanusi - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

66. Ejike Emmanuel Ibe - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

67. Jibril Abdullahi Ibrahim - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

68. Shima Kuma - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

69. Loretta Laye - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

70. Hanafi Abubakar Mujeli - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

71. Ahmed Zainab Shehu - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

72. Musa Ibrahim - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

73. Oruche Chukwudubem Godwin - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

74. Yakub Umar Yakub - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

75. Idigo Ifeanyi Charles - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

76. Asuzu Obioma C - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

77. James Elizabeth Edidiong - Senior supervisor 2 Step 01

78. Salami Bashirat Omolola - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

79. Ibrahim Muhammed Kabir - Senior supervisor ii step 01

80. Kamaludden Tukur Tafida - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

81. Ibeh Nnadozie Nathaniel - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

82. Samaila Shehu - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

83. Mohammed Ali - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

84. Rabiu Musa Mbulo - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

85. Aliyu Aisha Yakubu - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

86. Yahaya Sani - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

87. Muhammad Isah Rumu - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

88. Onoja Uwane Jessica - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

89. Ahmad Aminu - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

90. Nasreen Mamman-Daura - Senior Supervisor 2 step 02

91. Babayo Abdulhakeem Abdullahi - Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

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crixtex:
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Especially Beremx name...

masterblogger:


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Ecoterrorist:
beremx is Number 2
She used Carpenter as an alias

masterblogger:


LOL. Omenka, Beremx n Ngenekwenu are just doing what they are been paid to do. But I guess theve not been paid for the past 3 months

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ozoigbondu:
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