Between 2024 and 2025, Ebonyi State Government awarded contracts worth at least N8.3 billion to two companies owned by people related to Governor Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru.
According to the Ebonyi State Open Contracting Data Standards Portal, PDoings Limited and Angels of Wonder Nigeria Limited were paid a total of N8.3 billion for 12 contracts between October 2024 and November 2025.
Angels of Wonder Nigeria Limited, which got 10 of these contracts, is owned by Innocent Omerumbe Nwifuru, who circumstantial evidence suggests is the governor’s paternal half brother. Pdoings Nigeria Limited, the other entity in this report, is owned by Felix Nwifuru who, according to the Beneficial Owners Register of the Corporates Affairs Commission, was born in August 2004.
Felix Nwifuru’s company got two contracts worth a total of N5.08 billion. The other company owned by Omerumba Nwifuru received 11 contracts worth approximately N3.27 billion in the space of 13 months, per the Ebonyi State OCDS.
A GEN Z AND A N1.09BN TRANSPORT CONTRACT
PDoings incorporation was done about four months before it got its first contract. And that first contract was valued at over a billion naira, according to the OCDS portal. The CAC’s intelligent company registration portal pegged June 2024 as the month and year that Pdoings was incorporated.
CAC’s beneficial ownership register confirms that PDoing’s sole owner is Chigbuogu Felix Nwifuru who was born in August 2004. By implication, Felix was about 19 when the company was incorporated and 20 when it secured its first billion-naira contract from Ebonyi State Government.
Per the OCDS, the state awarded the company a N1,094,254,690 contract for the development of the Ebonyi State Commercial Bus Service (EBOCAB) platform and construction of its terminal in October 2024. The company did design the portal EBOCAB currently runs.
Three companies bid for the contract to do this project, per the tender details disclosed by the state government.
The procurement portal lists three bidders. Pdoings submitted a bid of approximately N1.094 billion, while CC-Vemos Global Nigeria Ltd submitted N1.134 billion and Chibest Maximum Plumbing Consult Ltd submitted N1.132 billion.
CC-Vemos was incorporated in 2020 and is said to have done some projects for the World Bank, by proxy, according to Development Aid, the development information service provider. Chibest Maximum, the other company on the tender document, is owned by another Nwifuru whose other names are Chibueze Mathew.
The tender process closed with PDoings was the winner. However, the company was only about three months old when bids were opened in September 2024. About a year later, the company got a N3.9 billion to develop the state’s olympic sports centre and equip it with a pool service building, a swimming pools and recreational development block
A CHIEF AND N3.27BN IN CONTRACTS
Angel of Wonders Nigeria Limited is considerably older. According to the CAC ICRP, it was incorporated in May 2017 and is currently marked as an inactive entity. The CAC BOR names Innocent Omerumba Nwifuru — born in 1988 — as the sole owner of the company.
In total, between October 2024 and November 2025, this company got 11 contracts from the state government. One of its bigger awards was a N1.665 billion contract for the construction of the Offerekpe-Nwofoke Aruvu-Iziogo Road in Izzi Local Government Area.
The contract was awarded on October 22, 2025, by the Ministry of Works and Transport. Three companies participated in the tender. Angel of Wonders submitted a bid of approximately N4.87 billion. Krisclev Concept Nig Ltd submitted N7.73 billion and Tonycelle Nig Ltd submitted N13.81 billion.
Angel of Wonders was the only company that bid for the 10 remaining contracts on this company’s portfolio in the timeframe under consideration. Eight of these contracts were for motorised boreholes at primary schools across Ebonyi State.
The other standout contract cost N1.6 billion. The company got the sum to construct a proposed faculty building at ICT University, Oferekpe, Ebonyi State. Again, Angel of Wonders was the only bidder listed for that particular award. These contracts brought the total value of the 11 awards reviewed for Angel of Wonders to approximately N3.27 billion.
GOVERNOR’S HALF-BROTHER AND A GEN Z CONTRACTOR
Beyond the shared surname, there are some concrete pointers to the familial relationship that Omerumba and Felix share with governor Nwifuru. The most solid link FIJ found is traceable to the burial ceremony of Nwankwonshii Nwifuru Nwankpu, the governor’s stepmother.
Patricia Onyemaechi Obila, the state’s deputy governor, issued a condolence message to the governor after the burial on October 23. In the message, Obila identified HRH Eze Ezekiel Nwifuru Nwankpu as the royal father, Innocent Omerumba Nwifuru as the deceased woman’s son and the governor as the deceased’s stepson.
Recall that a statement by Alex Otti’s office which also identified Lolo Nwankwonshii as the first wife of Eze Ezekiel Nwifuru Nwankpu and the stepmother of Governor Francis Nwifuru. Eze Ezekiel is publicly identified as the governor’s father. In December 2024, Trust Radio reported that Governor Nwifuru was one of the monarch’s 108 children.
“CONDOLENCE MESSAGE ON THE DEATH OF OUR MATRIARCH, LATE LOLO NWANKWONSHII NWIFURU NWANKPU
It is with a profound sense of grief and heartfelt sympathy that I received the news of the demise of our revered mother, the late Lolo Nwankwonshii Nwifuru Nwankpu.
As the first wife of the royal household, the late Lolo Nwankwonshii was a quintessential matriarch whose life was defined by exceptional accommodation, peace-loving nature, generosity, and remarkable industry. She possessed a rare capacity to embrace every child within the royal family as her own. Endowed with profound wisdom and natural leadership qualities, she was a firm disciplinarian who successfully instilled enduring bonds of love, unity, and discipline within the family.
This transition marks a deeply sombre moment for the entire royal family. I sincerely console our revered royal father, HRH Eze Ezekiel Nwifuru Nwankpu, her son, Prince Innocent Omerumba Nwifuru, her stepson and our dear Governor, Rt. Hon. Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru, her stepdaughter-in-law and our esteemed First Lady, Chief Mrs Uzoamaka Mary-Maudline Nwifuru, and all other members of the royal family.
I urge you to find comfort in her exemplary life and keep the sacred flame of love and unity she so dearly cherished burning brightly within the family. May God Almighty grant her gentle soul eternal rest in His bosom and comfort everyone affected by this irreparable loss.
Please accept my deepest and most sincere condolences.
Yours in sympathy,
Her Excellency,”
The exact relationship Chigbogu Felix has with the governor, beyond the shared surname, is unknown. But FIJ can confirm that he was at the same burial ceremony. Felix made two Facebook posts on the days of the ceremony where he described the deceased as “our mother”.
EBONYI STATE PROCUREMENT LAW
The Ebonyi State Public Procurement and Related Matters Law, 2020, has provisions against conflict of interest in public procurement.
Section 68(9) requires every public officer involved directly or indirectly in procurement to divest himself of interests or relationships that could be detrimental to the government. It further prohibits such an officer from participating in a commercial transaction involving the state where his official position could confer an unfair advantage on himself or a person directly related to him.
Section 68(10) also requires anyone involved in public procurement who assumes a financial or other business relationship that could create a conflict of interest to declare the actual or potential interest immediately.
The law also requires State Executive Council approval for ministry contracts exceeding N1 billion, under Section 23(1)(a). This makes the council’s approval records for the EBOCAB, Olympic Sports Centre, Offerekpe-Iziogo road and ICT University projects important documents for establishing who authorised the awards and the basis for their decisions.
FIJ
