Last Tuesday, hours after a Federal High Court judge in Abuja issued a bench warrant for his arrest, police tracked down Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew in a village hideout in Osun state and brought him back to the capital in handcuffs. The speed of the operation was striking. For months, Adeyemi, the self-styled director-general of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), a body the presidency insists never lawfully existed, had eluded a manhunt he says was really an attempt to silence him. It took security operatives days once they had located him. It took them hours once a court finally ordered it.

The arrest of Adeniyi Adeyemi, the self-styled Director-General of the alleged Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council, has generated widespread public interest and…

Uncover the details of the police and DSS operation that led to the arrest of Adeniyi Adeyemi, the self-styled DG of the Presidential Foreign Investment Pr