On Wednesday, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) publicised a court-ordered forfeiture of the Goodwill Private Schools, a property located in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State.
According to the agency, the court granted its request on Tuesday for the permanent forfeiture of the property (believed to be a product of illicit proceeds) after the owners refused to respond to an earlier publication announcing the process of taking over the building for the government.
The commission refused to name the owners of the property in its public communication.
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Court Orders Final Forfeiture of Property in LagosJustice A.O. Owoeye of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, on Tuesday, January 21, 2025, ordered the final forfeiture of a property, a u-shaped two-storey building in Lagos, to the Federal Government of Nigeria.The… pic.twitter.com/dsfKJ38r9t— EFCC Nigeria (@officialEFCC) January 22, 2025
FIJ, however, used the details of the statement to find a lead linking the school to certain persons.
WHO OWNS THE SCHOOL?
Goodwill Private Schools Limited’s incorporation was approved by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) on March 22, 2005, and assigned registration certificate number 619735. Its registered address was 6/8 Solebo Street, Ikorodu.
The school’s status on the CAC’s companies registry was “inactive”, suggesting it had not been doing its requisite filings with the regulator.
Five persons were listed as directors of the school, according to the information available on NG-Check, a website providing information about Nigerian companies.
A screenshot of the school’s status on the CAC’s website.
Those individuals are Enikuomehin Sunday Omoniyi, Enikuomehin Felicia Motunradun, Enikuomehin Joseph Oluwatosin, Enikuomehin Justina Oluwatoyin and Enikuomehin Joshua Oluwatobi.
INFORMATION ABOUT THE SCHOOL’S DIRECTORS
To start with, Enikuomehin Joseph Oluwatosin is a legal practitioner. According to his Facebook profile, he “attended Goodwill Secondary School”.
More findings showed that Oluwatosin worked with Anthony Ebeh & Co, a law office situated at 15 Jokodola Ogun Street, opposite Ikorodu General Hospital.
Efforts to speak with the lawyer were unsuccessful at press time. FIJ phoned Anthony Ebeh, the principal partner at the law office, told FIJ that he did not know Oluwatosin’s whereabouts since he resigned his appointment in 2021.
Enikuomehin Justina Oluwatoyin, another director of the school, is a medical practitioner. On November 18, 2017, the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria listed her among the graduates who participated in its MDCN Assessment Examinations for Foreign-Trained Medical and Dental Graduates conducted at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, from November 15 to 17 November.
A five-year-old photo of the school. Source: ‘Educatalk Publisher on Google Maps.
Oluwatoyin was number 22 on the list of 249 participants posted on the council’s Facebook profile.
Individual-specific information about other directors was difficult to retrieve. Collectively, however, all five directors were directly linked to some other companies.
Four of those directors: Oluwatobi, Oluwatoyin, Motunradun and Omoniyi, own the Goodwill Triple Joy Ventures Nigeria Ltd registered on August 29, 2008, with registration number 769996 and registered address at 9 Ayangburen Road, Ikorodu.
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Goodwill Energy Resources Ltd. is another company linked to all the directors. This company was registered on April 6, 2011, with registration number 946207. Its address was the same as Triple Joy Ventures.
Two banners hung on the gate of the school five years ago. On the left is a banner for marking the 37th anniversary of the school and on the left is a banner showing that the school doubled as a study centre of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State.
Additionally, they own a non-governmental organisation named Grozav Empowerment Foundation legally registered on May 28, 2018. The foundation’s registration number is 112117 and its address was at 6 Solebo Street, Ikorodu, the same address as the school’s.
Old photos of the school recorded on Google Maps suggested that the school used to host a study centre of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State.
Dele Oyewale, the EFCC spokesperson, did not respond to FIJ’s phone calls.
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