The United States government agencies are expected to release investigation reports related to a drug trafficking case involving Nigerian President Bola Tinubu in the 1990s, following a court order.
News Band understand that the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has ordered the release of relevant documents by Friday, May 2, 2025.
Agencies authorized to submit records include the U.S. Attorneys’ Office, Department of State, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)—although the CIA is exempt from the initial joint update requirement.
The court judgement, issued in April, directed all listed agencies to provide status updates on any outstanding issues and to disclose documents pertaining to the decades-old case.
Premium Times reports that the directive came from Judge Beryl Howell, in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, stating that withholding the documents from public access was “neither logical nor plausible.”
The case was initiated by an American, Aaron Greenspan, in June 2023 under the FOIA against the US government agencies, accusing them of breaching the law by failing to release documents relating to alleged federal investigations involving President Tinubu and one Abiodun Agbele within the required time.
Between 2022 and 2023, Greenspan reportedly submitted 12 FOIA requests to six different US agencies, seeking records connected to a joint investigation carried out by the FBI, IRS, DEA, and US Attorney’s Offices in the Northern Districts of Indiana and Illinois.
Each request targeted investigative records concerning four individuals allegedly linked to a drug ring: Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Lee Andrew Edwards, Mueez Abegboyega Akande, and Abiodun Agbele.
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