23419 By Raconteur Productions

On Christmas Day 2009, a twenty-three-year-old Nigerian engineering graduate tried to detonate a bomb on a plane carrying 289 people. The bomb failed. He believes that wasn't a malfunction — it was God deciding he wasn't ready yet.

His father had walked into the US Embassy five weeks earlier and warned them. Nobody listened. This episode is built from the trial transcript, FBI interrogator interviews, the Sixth Circuit appeal, and the father's own words. A story about loneliness, radicalisation, intelligence failure, and a man who is still waiting in a prison cell for God to call him back.

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Full episode transcript available at raconteur-productions.com. It's Not Me, It's The Devil is a Raconteur Productions original, powered by the Archivi.ng 2026 Fellowship.

The chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission paid N800 million to a native doctor for services including Goodluck Oil, Nobody No Refuse Oil, a dog called Maley, and an attempt to kill a sitting governor with enchanted food. He says he was under a spell. The native doctor says he did the job and is still owed N260 million.

In this episode, the native doctor tells the story himself — verbatim from his police statement and court testimony. He is, for the first and probably last time in this podcast, essentially the co-host.

Read My Lord, It's the Devil — our newsletter on Substack for behind-the-scenes research, the details that didn't make the final cut, and other cases too ridiculous not to share: https://inmitdpodcast.substack.com/

Full episode transcript available at raconteur-productions.com. It's Not Me, It's The Devil is a Raconteur Productions original, powered by the Archivi.ng 2026 Fellowship.

That was Bank PHB's slogan. It was also, apparently, their lending policy. N25.7 billion in loans to companies that didn't exist, signed off by the CEO, covered up by the CFO, and discovered only after the entire Nigerian banking sector nearly collapsed.

This episode tells the story of Francis Atuche, the 2009 banking crisis, and the twelve-year trial that followed — built from EFCC testimony, court transcripts, and a judge who called the defendant's behaviour "the art of subterfuge."

Read My Lord, It's the Devil — our newsletter on Substack for behind-the-scenes research, the details that didn't make the final cut, and other cases too ridiculous not to share: https://inmitdpodcast.substack.com/

Full episode transcript available at raconteur-productions.com. It's Not Me, It's The Devil is a Raconteur Productions original, powered by the Archivi.ng 2026 Fellowship.

On June 24th, 2011, Akolade Arowolo celebrated his birthday. By the end of the day, his wife Titilayo was dead — found in a locked bathroom with seventy-six stab wounds. He said it wasn't him.

This episode follows the case from the crime scene to the Supreme Court, built from forensic testimony, police statements, and the court record. A story about what happens when a woman's death is treated as a puzzle to be solved rather than a life that was taken.

If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence in Nigeria, support is available.

Federal Government toll-free line for violation of girls and women's: 080072732255

Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA): 08000333333, lagosdsva.org (24/7, free, confidential). 

Safe Haven Foundation: 0911-001-9999. 

Mirabel center: 08155770000. 

Women Aid Collective: +234 707 479 2983, +234 707 479 2985, wacolnig@gmail.com

Women safe house: 0812 113 3399,  info@womensafehouse.org

You do not have to deal with this alone.

Read My Lord, It's the Devil — our newsletter on Substack for behind-the-scenes research, the details that didn't make the final cut, and other cases too ridiculous not to share: https://inmitdpodcast.substack.com/

Full episode transcript available at raconteur-productions.com. It's Not Me, It's The Devil is a Raconteur Productions original, powered by the Archivi.ng 2026 Fellowship.

In 2006, six members of a Lagos church were set on fire by their pastor. He called it discipline. The courts called it attempted murder. One of them, Ann Uzor, didn't survive.

This episode rebuilds the case of Reverend King from the court transcripts, witness testimony, and Supreme Court judgment. What happened inside the Christian Praying Assembly compound, who was targeted and why, and how a man who claimed to speak for God ended up on death row.

Read My Lord, It's the Devil — our newsletter on Substack for behind-the-scenes research, the details that didn't make the final cut, and other cases too ridiculous not to share: https://inmitdpodcast.substack.com/

Full episode transcript available at raconteur-productions.com. It's Not Me, It's The Devil is a Raconteur Productions original, powered by the Archivi.ng 2026 Fellowship.