The National Research Institute for Chemical Technology sits in Zaria, Kaduna State, and its business, written into the law that made it, is chemical technology: research into chemicals, industrial processes and the raw materials Nigeria keeps importing. On Monday, 11 May 2026, the institute was in another line of work entirely. It was building rural roads in Ogun State, more than 700 kilometres away in the South West, and it paid for the same road job twice on the same day.
Information seen by NGBreakingnews shows that on 11 May 2026, the institute, payer code 0228044001, raised two separate payment vouchers in favour of one company, Rightnetwork Investment Limited. Voucher 1001409298 carried N94,380,976.10. Voucher 1001409321 carried N94,380,976.10. The beneficiary on both is Rightnetwork Investment Limited. The date on both is 11 May 2026. The narration on both is identical, word for word, letter for letter: payment for the development of rural roads for community enhancement in Ogun State. Two vouchers, two payments, one company, one day, one sum, twice.
These were not a clerical echo in a database. Each payment was processed in full and taxed on its own. Attached to voucher 1001409298 is its own withholding tax line of N7,260,075.08, paid to the Federal Inland Revenue Service the same day and naming Rightnetwork Investment Limited as the payer. Attached to voucher 1001409321 is a second withholding tax line of N7,260,075.08, again paid the same day, again naming Rightnetwork. The treasury took its cut twice because the money moved twice.
The official record then stops at the exact point where the two payments could be told apart. The narration on each voucher ends mid-phrase at the word “LOTS”, and no lot number follows in any field of either record. Nothing in the payment record distinguishes the first N94,380,976.10 from the second. The gap matters because lot numbers do survive elsewhere in the same records, on payments made the same day by the same institute. NARICT’s payment to Logine International Limited, N85,356,670.06 for classrooms in Ogun, carries its lots in full: lots 1, 2, 3. The institute’s payments to NASA Global Resoures Service Ltd and to LRB Global Investment Limited, each of them also N94,380,976.10, each of them also on 11 May 2026, each of them also for community access roads in selected local government areas in Ogun, carry their scope in full: Lot I to V. Only the two payments to Rightnetwork trail off at “LOTS” and say no more.
That sum, N94,380,976.10, appears four times in the entire federal payment record, and all four appearances are NARICT, Ogun roads, 11 May 2026: twice to Rightnetwork, once to NASA Global, once to LRB Global. It was the day’s standard price for an Ogun roads package. And across the institute’s complete payment history in the records, 722 payments running back to 2018, the two vouchers of 11 May 2026 are the only payments the National Research Institute for Chemical Technology has ever made to Rightnetwork Investment Limited. There is no run of lot payments to this company before that day, and none after it. There are only the two, identical in every particular the record holds.
The roads were not even the strangest thing the chemical institute bought that day, because 11 May 2026 was not one strange payment. It was the institute’s entire payment life for the season compressed into a single day. Every payment record the institute has in the period, 32 records in all, falls on 11 May 2026, and together they total N1,523,728,999.48. On that one day, the Zaria chemical research institute paid Exclusive Energy Limited N179,747,069.26 and a further N73,553,692.44, both for solar street lights. It paid Hubworth Services Nigeria Limited N119,486,755.84 for classrooms and toilets in Ogun State. It paid Elm Engineering Services Ltd N87,954,066.01 and N30,269,486.43 for classrooms in Yobe East, in the North East. It paid Logine International Limited N85,356,670.06 for the Ogun classrooms. It paid Givchris Global Services Ltd N62,965,116.28 for youth training in Yobe East. Roads in Ogun, classrooms in Ogun, classrooms in Yobe, street lights, youth training: a research institute for chemical technology, spending N1.52 billion in a day on everything except chemical technology.
The company at the centre of the double payment is no research outfit either. Rightnetwork Investment Limited, registration number 1714496, was incorporated on 24 September 2020 and stands active on the Corporate Affairs Commission register. In the same season it collected from the chemical institute, it was collecting across the federal system, and findings by NGBreakingnews put its receipts for the period at N1,433,677,297.67 across nine payments. The Federal Co-operative College at Oji River paid it N271,500,000 as first tranche for 70 units of Hiace buses for community service in Lagos State, N271,500,000 as first tranche for economic empowerment equipment and utility vehicles, N314,842,500 as first tranche for solar powered boreholes in Agege Federal Constituency, and N54,245,700 for school furniture and educational materials for schools in Cross River State. The Energy Commission of Nigeria paid it N248,237,226.97 as 30 percent mobilisation for 779 solar streetlights in Dala Federal Constituency, Kano State. The SHEDA Science and Technology Complex in Abuja paid it N56,400,000 as mobilisation for solar lights in Allen, Lagos State. The National Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation in Ilorin paid it N28,189,918.50 as 30 percent mobilisation for farming equipment for farmers in the South West. Buses, boreholes, streetlights, furniture, farm equipment, and, from the chemical institute, rural roads: Rightnetwork sells everything, and every agency is buying.
The man presiding over the institute through all of it is its Director General and Chief Executive, Engr. Dr. Kabiru Mu’azu. He assumed office on 29 October 2024 as the institute’s fifth chief executive and the first to rise through its own ranks, a career insider who joined NARICT in 1999 and climbed to the top of the house he now runs. The institute’s own publications still carried him in that office in the first days of May 2026, days before the payment run of 11 May.
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