Mr Abdullahi was arrested in the early hours of Wednesday.
The magistrate adjourned the matter until May 25 for further hearing.
The unit benchmarks project costs against national and global prices.
Here is where the story took a turn that drew sharp criticism from civil society.
EFCC has commenced investigations into the activities of the managing director of Paramount Energy Ltd over alleged N72.3 million fraud.
He said many of the suspects arrested recently were undergraduates.
Mr Okpozikbo said, “The money was fraudulently taken because some of the suspects we interrogated confessed to that.”
The EFCC on April 7, 2025 arraigned Jaja, Abubakar and his company, Jasfad Resources Enterprise, as 1st, 2nd and 3rd defendants respectively.
He was arraigned on a one-count charge bordering on criminal misappropriation of funds.
Mr Mamman was appointed minister in August 2019 and was sacked in September 2021.
