Showing posts with label nigeria news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nigeria news. Show all posts

Friday, August 4

I’m Ready To Fund Additional Police Area Commands, One In Ikorodu & and Badagry- Ambode


Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State
yesterday, requested for two additional Police
Area Commands, saying they would go a long
way in tackling the nefarious activities of
criminally minded persons once and for all.
Ambode, who made the request when the
Inspector General of Police, Mr. Idris Ibrahim paid
him a courtesy visit at the Lagos House in Ikeja,
said the additional Area Commands, if granted,
would be set up in Ikorodu and Badagry, assuring
that the State Government was ready to provide
the funds to set them up.

“I am ready to fund additional area commands in
Lagos, so I am requesting that we should do two
additional commands in Lagos, one in Ikorodu
and another one in Badagry. There is a need for
us to pay more attention to the Ikorodu axis
because of the kind of reports that we are getting
from there,” the Governor said.

Thursday, August 3

Only those looking for appointment want restructuring: An open letter to VP Osinbajo from Femi Fani-Kayode

Only those looking for appointment
want restructuring: An open letter to
VP Osinbajo from Femi Fani-Kayode

Read his peace below...

"Those that are calling for restructuring are
looking for appointment. When they say they
want restructuring what they mean is that they
want an appointment....... some people told us
Nigeria is a "geographical expression" although
it was not even original to them"- Acting
President Yemi Osinbajo.

Your Excellency,

I trust that you are well despite the fact that
your principal is still at large.
Permit me to take this opportunity to respond to
your gratutious insult and your irresponsible and
irreverant assertion about those of us that have
been at the forefront of the fight for restructuring
our nation for many years.

However before doing so I shall make a few
observations and assertions of my own.
You have constantly condemned and warned
against what you call "hate speech" in our
nation yet you indulge in it more than anyone
else.

I say this because you constantly call others,
particularly members of the opposition, "looters"
and you take pleasure on demonising them
before the world even before a court of law has
pronounced them guilty of any wrongdoing.

You also call them "plunderers", "liars",
"clueless" and "destroyers". If this is not hate
speech then I really don't know what is!
You have stigmatised and criminalised every
single leading member of the opposition PDP,
including our leader President Goodluck Ebele
Jonathan, over the last three years and you have
sought to paint us as reprobates and evil souls
that are not fit to hold public office and that
have destroyed the very foundation of our
country.

One of your most prominent and vocal
sympathisers, supporters and leaders even
called President Jonathan's wife, our former
First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, an ugly and
illiterate hippopotamus! Are these sentiments
not motivated by pure hate?

Yet you know very well that all that you and
your associates have said about the PDP and
our leaders is not only a lie from the pit of hell
but also a carefully crafted, purposely contrived
and premeditated false narrative.

Worse still you are fully aware of the fact that
over sixty percent of your party elders and APC
governors, ministers, legislators and public
office holders were, up until three or four years
ago, all elders, leaders and members of the
PDP, including President Olusegun Obasanjo
and Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
If the PDP was so bad why did you give those
that came from there such prominent positions
and key roles to play at both the state and
federal level before, during and after the
presidential election of 2015?

You claim that those that are calling for
restructuring are only doing so in order to get
an appointment. You measure others by your
own squalid standards and you do nothing but
take shameless dictation from a tiny cabal of
faceless shape-shifting reptilians, corpsocrats,
bloodsucking demons and vampires.

You cover up their atrocities and you endorse
their wicked ways and their evil persecution.
You have forgotten who you are and where you
are coming from.

From the outset and as far back as the early
1940's the Yoruba particularly, and indeed the
people of the south generally, have wanted and
fought for nothing but a restructured Nigeria
where power is devolved from the center and
now you insult those that support it and pooh
pooh the whole idea.

As a Christian you have joined forces with those
that hate your faith and that have sought to
denigrate it and wipe it off the face of the earth.
Those that are behind this hideous and satanic
agenda are not even real or true Muslims but
rather they are Islamic fundamentalists and
believers in radical and political islam.

They call their fellow Muslims who do not share
their radical and bigoted views "infidels" simply
because they believe that religion is a personal
issue which must never be brought into or used
in partisan politics and simply because they are
prepared to support a non-Muslim for the
Presidency or indeed any other political office.

Your new found friends and those you front for
hate Christians and they hate real Muslims. Yet
you do not care about this deviant disposition
as long as you are given the opportunity by
them to remain in office even though they treat
you like filth and they regard you as nothing
more than a mere quisling, puppet and puffed
up, highly celebrated "national co-ordinator".

What a sorry impasse you have brought us to.
We had hoped that you would be a man and
stand up like one whilst your "father" was away
trying to recover from his ill-health and many
afflictions in London but this was not to be.
Nigeria is crumbling right under your feet and
falling apart because you have refused to rise up
to the occasion, muster the required strength
and moral authority to set things right and build
bridges of fraternity and friendship and ensure
that there is justice and fairness to all in the
land.

Under you no Fulani herdsmen have been
arrested. Under you Boko Haram has gone from
bad to worse. Under you the Arewa Youth
threatened a whole ethnic race with eviction and
genocide yet none of them were arrested.

Under you the Yoruba youth have said they do
not want restructuring anymore but what they
want is secession. Under you IPOB brought the
whole of the south east to a stand-still and
today they reign supreme in that region and
zone.

Under you stage-managed pictures of our ailing
President were put out with visiting governors
which were proof of life but which did not
ondicate whether he was mentally or physically
well enoufh to come home and rule our nation.

90 days down the line and we still don't know
what is wrong with him and how much longer
he will be away.

Not only has the President gone missing but
even the presidential jet that took him to the UK
and that was parked at Stan stead
Airport waiting for him for the last three months
has now reportedly also gone missing.
Ours has become an international shame and
we are now the laughing stock of the world
because you find it very hard to tell us the truth.

Even CNN and the Washington Post, your good
friends that helped to bring you to power, are
now mocking you.

Yet you do not care and you continue to act as
if all is well. Are you not provoking the Living
God? Did the respected General Overseer of
your Church, the Redeemed Church of God,
Pastor Enoch Adegboye (a profoundly good man
who is undoubtedly one of God's end time
generals) not teach you that a heavy price will
be paid by those who join forces with the
Amalekites to hurt, wound, crush and destroy
the children of light and the sons and daughters
of promise?

What is your fear and what is the source of your
cowardice. Can light overcome darkness? Did
David not survive the wilderness? Did he not
survive the brutal onslaught of Saul, the
rebellion of his own son Absalom and the
vicious attacks of the Philistines?
Did he not defeat and destroy Goliath and
redeem the honor of the children of Israel and
the Living God? Is that God dead to you now?
Whose report do you believe? Do you believe
the report of the Lord or the report of man?
He who created the eyes and the ears, can He
no longer see and hear? Is the arm of the Lord
too short to defend and deliver?

Is there anything too big or too difficult for our
GOD? Is He that created the universe and who
chose to make the earth His footstool so weak
that He cannot honor His word and deliver His
people?
The truth is that if you fail to do the right thing
and you turn your back on Him and His
purpose, He will spew you out and find another
that will effect His purpose and will in our
country. We are not in by our hands but in His.
Mordecai told Esther this over three thousand
years ago and I am telling you the same thing
today.

If you need to be reminded about the veracity
and efficacy of the Holy scriptures when it
comes to the truisms and strictures of
leadership and governance and you are reluctant
to hear them from your spiritual father because
you are ashamed of the fact that you have gone
astray then please do the following.
Ask for a secret audience with either Bishop
David Oyedepo, Bishop Mike Okonkwo, Prophet
T.B. Joshua, Dr. Daniel Olukoya, Apostle
Suleman, Bishop Danson, Pastor Paul
Adefarasin, Bishop B.O. Ezekiel or any of the
other great men of God in our nation who will
undoubtedly have the courage and the
conviction to tell you what the Lord is saying
and the bitter truth.

You need help and you need it fast. The
politicians cannot help you now and neither can
your new-found friends on the corridors of
power or your beleaguered, divided and dying
party the APC. Only the Living God can help
you.

It is so bad that you did and said nothing when
your fellow Redeemed Pastor (who happened to
be a woman) was slaughtered right under your
nose in Abuja recently. You did not even attend
her burial.
Instead of doing the right thing and soothing
frayed nerves you are encouraging division in
our nation and you are consolidating and
perpetuating a ruthless and heartless quasi-
apartheid system of government which has no
basis in decent, rationality, justice or fairness.
It is a cruel and barbaric system which sees a
few as the master race and the rest as slaves.
Given all this how can you possibly live with
yourself and how can you hold your head up
high?
You join common slaves and ride on horseback
whilst you condemn and confine the princes of
the realm and the sons and daughters of the
Most High God to walk around barefooted.
This is not only sacrilege but it is indeed a
great evil under the sun. May god forgive you
and may He deliver you before it is too late.
All those that said that we should have faith in
the APC and the Acting President should
carefully meditate on and consider his words
and categorisation of those who believe in
restructuring and self-determination.
He says that they are just looking for an
appointment. Permit me to ask the following
questions.

Is it the leaders of the south, Afenifere,
Ohaeneze and the Niger Delta that are looking
for appointments? Or is it the leaders of the
Middle Belt?
Is it Baba Fasoranti, Baba Ayo Adebanjo, General
Alani Akinrinade, Chief Amos Akingba, Bishop
Gbonigi, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi or Chief Olu
Falae?
Is it Chief John Nwodo, Governor Victor Ezeife or
Chief Arthur Nwankwo? Is it Chief E.K. Clark,
Chief Solomon Asemota SAN or Chief Albert
Horsefall?
Is it General TY Danjuma, General Dogonyaro or
General Zamani Lekwot? Is it Atiku Abibakar
who was the Vice President that you are today
18 years ago?
Is it the respected Baba Bisi Akande who has
been calling for us to go back to the 1963
regional structure and form of government? Is it
General Ibrahim Babangida who was Head of
State 32 years ago?
What appointment can you or Buhari possibly
offer any of them at their age and with their
wealth of knowledge and experience? Why
should you measure these distinguished and
respected people, most of whom are old enough
to he your father, by your own sordid
standards?
The other day you stood at a public function
and clapped heartily when our father and leader
President Olusegun Obasanjo said that the way
to stop the Biafran agitation was to offer the
Igbo people a slice of cake?

Does that make sense to you? Is this whole
thing about cake and appointments as far as
people like you are concerened?
Why do you seen to take pleasure in denigrating
those that do not believe in a nation that has all
the powers of government concentrated at the
center and that has dashed the hopes and
dreams of millions?

Nigeria was meant to be a federation and not a
unitary state with a federal facade! Have you
forgotten that today simply because you are
Vice President to Buhari?
Does Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the man that brought
you into politics and that single-handedly made
you Vice President, agree with you on this?
Does he also believe that everyone that
believes in restructuring is just looking for an
appointment?
If so that would be very curious because he
once believed in it and we used to discuss it
extensively when we were closer. I am sure that
at some point he would have lectured you on its
merits and rudiments.
Honestly you have lost it completely. You have
betrayed your people and jettisoned their cause.
You have ignored their call for justice and
equity and you have turned a deaf ear to their
cry for deliverance.
Some will call you a shameless coward but I will
not go that far out of respect for your office. I
am however constrained to say that I have lost
the great respect that I once had for you.
Like the biblical Demas you have turned your
back on your primary calling and you have gone
the other way.
You have been seduced and overwhelmed by a
Demastic anointing. You have fallen in love
with the awesome power of governance at the
Villa and all worldly things.
In short you are a self-serving modern-day
Afonja who will eventually be consumed by
those who he has joined forces with to destroy
his own people and the children of the Living
God. Thus says the Lord.

My regards to your family Your Excellency and
kindly convey my warmest greetings and special
felicitations to your brother "Jebi" who I am
very fond of and was very friendly with whilst at
London University in the early 1980's. Shalom.

Tuesday, July 25

Nnamdi Kanu Showcases Locally-made Biafran War Vehicle Amid Secession Calls (Photos)




The combatant car pictured here was manufactured by Ephraim Alex Akwaiwu in Imo State. He said the 2017 model will be specially made for the leader of the Independent People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.

Mr. Kanu was pictured examining the efficacy of the vehicle after which he accepted the gift and commended the young man for the great feat.

IPOB leadership also agreed to sponsor and finance such huge and enormous projects across Biafra land as the group forces to break the South-east out of Nigeria.

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Monday, July 24

Buhari expected back from UK in 2 weeks -BBC

A Nigerian state governor says he expects
President Muhammadu Buhari to return
home from the UK within the next two
weeks.
Governor Rochas Okorocha was a member
of a delegation who met the president in
London on Sunday.
Mr Buhari has been receiving treatment in
the UK for an unspecified illness.
His absence has led to some anxiety in
Nigeria, with some speculating that he
might have died. Others have worried he
may not be able to return to duty.
The presidency later released images of Mr
Buhari, 74, at the meeting with governors
from his party. It is the first time he has
been pictured in London since leaving
Nigeria almost 80 days ago.
‘High spirits’
The Imo state governor told the BBC’s
Newshour programme on Monday: “I met
a very hardy man in high spirits, and he’s
doing quite well. He has not lost his sense
of humour, for which is he known for.
“So he is doing quite well and we are very
pleased to see him and I think that has
gone a long way to reassure Nigerians
about the health of their president.”
Mr Okorocha earlier said Mr Buhari had
laughed off rumours concerning his health
when asked about them.
“President Buhari was completely
unperturbed by the cocktail of lies. He,
instead, sent his best wishes to
Nigerians.”
Mr Buhari would be returning as soon as
doctors gave him the green light, Mr
Okorocha said.
The president left Nigeria on 7 May – his
second trip to the UK for treatment this
year.
In his absence, he has given Vice-
President Yemi Osinbajo full powers to act
as head of state.

Sunday, July 16

Nigeria Needs To Be Renegotiated – Prof. Wole Soyinka

Nobel Laureate , Prof Wole Soyinka , has
backed those who are calling for a
renegotiation in the country , the Professor
made this known on Friday in Yenagoa,
Bayelsa State .
He said this in Yenagoa, during a colloquium
with the theme : “ A day with the Nobel
laureate , Prof. Wole Soyinka and Ijaw literary
icons ” , held at the Ijaw National Academy,
Kaiama, Bayesla State , and moderated by
renowned poet , Odia Ofeimun.
At the event which was also graced by other
literary giants including Dr . Gabriel Okara , Prof
Ebiegberi Alagoa and Prof John Pepper Clark ,
Bayelsa State Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson
said Nigeria ’ s unity is negotiable .
Soyinka said , “ My response is simple . We
must stop confusing and mixing up the
argument, we are mixing up the argument. It is
very unfortunate for our leaders to say that the
question of breaking up or not breaking up
should not arisen in the first place . It all
sounds hypocritical , dogmatic and dictatorial.
The statement is the unity of Nigeria is non
negotiable , now that to me, is a falsititude.
“ Anything is negotiable , the right for people to
determine their future is what is non-
negotiable . Most nations came to being
through negotiation.
“ Sometimes , when people say negotiate, what
they really mean is restructuring. What the
question should be : should Nigeria break up?
My answer to that is no , but please don’ t tell
me that Nigeria , as it stands is non-
negotiable . For me, this is a fallacy .
“ The nation has got to be negotiated,
negotiation includes ensuring that there is no
marginalisation. Negotiation means control of
resources, negotiation has to do with
restructuring a nation in a way that the
components and constituents are not feeding
an over bloated centre to the detriment of their
development. The language we should use is
what are you willing to sacrifice? what effort
are you willing to make to ensure Nigeria
remains intact? That is the question. ”
Also speaking , Dickson said while the unity of
Nigeria is desirable and negotiable , aggrieved
nationalities should sit down and dialogue .
“ Nigeria ’ s unity is negotiable and desirable .
The answer on whether to break up is no.
There is a desire to stay as one. Ask
questions about what is happening, there are
several things to negotiate.
“ If we can control our resources, we will do
more for our people . All we need to do , is to
talk about our existence , our living together.
Let ’ s sit down and talk . ”

We Asked FG to Make CRK, IRK Compulsory - Sultan of Sokoto

The Sultan of Sokoto has played down reports
that the current administration is making
surreptitious plans to islamize Nigeria following
the alleged scrapping of C.R.K.
Sultan of Sokoto, Dr. Muhammad Abubakar
The Sultan of Sokoto, Dr. Muhammad Abubakar,
on Friday, rejected suggestions that there were
plans to Islamise the country.
He said Muslims had been canvassing to make
Islamic Religious Knowledge a compulsory
subject in schools.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Abubakar
spoke at a national symposium and launching of
2025 Vision by Da’awah Coordination Council of
Nigeria.
The Sultan said, “When Umar Yar’Adua was
President, Christians and Muslims leaders wrote,
asking him to make Islamic and Christian
Religious Knowledge core and compulsory
subjects in schools.
“When Goodluck Jonathan took over, we
presented a paper making the same demand,
which was approved, but the then minister of
education refused to implement it for reasons
best known to him.
“So, I wonder why a controversy suddenly
surfaced over alleged attempts by Muslims to
force Islam on Christians by compelling students
to learn Islamic religion in schools,” he said.
He urged the DCCN to propagate Islam to non-
Muslims in a non-combative manner.
“Tell people what Islam is; tell them why they
should be Muslims and what difference it could
make to their lives,” he stated.
The Sultan also said the recent crisis in Mambilla
Plateau, Taraba State was not targeted at any
tribe.
“The crisis was not planned by individuals or
groups to eliminate any tribe; as an ex-military
officer, I can only believe that the crisis was
planned when I see a document to confirm that,”
he said.
He said he had met with some leaders in Taraba
and cautioned them against playing politics with
the lives of the people.
“As leaders, we must study situations during any
crisis before commenting. We must avoid
comments that will worsen already bad
situations,” he said.
He urged government to strive to bring culprits of
the Mambilla violence to book, and warned
against derogatory terms like “Islamic
fundamentalists or extremists, Fulani attackers,
Berom or Mambilla terrorists.”

Friday, July 14

Do Lawyers Really Earn As Low As 15K A Month?

Twitter user, @Bint_Moshood said a friend of hers abandoned a legal job to go open a beauty salon after she was paid 15K a month. Other users chipped with their stories and someone even said lawyers in Ibadan earn as low as 5K. Qualified lawyers. Any lawyers in the house?

Judge Fines Evans' Lawyer 20,000 For 'professional Misconduct'


Olukoya Ogungbeje, the lawyer representing billionaire kidnapper Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans was awarded a cost of N20,000 by Justice Abdulazeez Anka of a Lagos Division of the Federal High Court, Thursday 13th July 2017.

Ogungbeje was fined for professional misconduct as he failed to show up for the fundamental rights suit filed on behalf of Evans by him, over alleged illegal detention and instead sent Stephen Abunike, a litigation officer from his law firm, who told the court that his principal was indisposed and had written a letter seeking an adjournment.

Emmanuel Eze,  who represented Lagos State Commissioner of Police, opposed Ogungbeje?s application for adjournment. According to him, he wasn't informed about their plans, adding that another lawyer from Ogunbeje's firm could have easily come to represent Evans.

According to him, it is an ?affront? to the court for Ogungbeje not to send another lawyer to stand in for him.

    ?In view of this, we are of the view that the applicant?s counsel is most unserious with this application. We, therefore, ask for a punitive cost of N100,000 against the applicant and his counsel,? he said.

The judge however awarded a disciplinary cost of N20,000 against Mr. Ogungbeje which must be paid before July 20,  for what he described as unprofessional conduct. He said:
   
    ?Counsel wrote a letter seeking for an adjournment without copying the prosecution. This, to me, is unprofessional. The court hereby warns counsel to desist from such type of practice.?

The judge further warned Ogunbeje to desist from practices unbecoming of a legal practitioner.  He also said the facts before him showed that Evans was still in police custody.

Food Poisoning: 13 Remo Stars FC Players Hospitalized After Consuming Plates of Semovita & Egusi Soup (Photos)



According to a statement by the Remo Stars Football club, 13 of its first-team players, have been hospitalized following severe food poisoning.

It was gathered that on July 8th, the football stars including their leading scorer, Victor Mbaoma, Ekene Awazie and Salefu Ochowechi are currently being hospitalized after reportedly consuming plates of Egusi soup and Semovita and suffered food poisoning afterwards

The players began complaining of stomach pain and tiredness, from about 7:00pm on July 8th after eating. They were rushed to the General Hospital Ikenne, Remo Ogun state where they are receiving medical attention.

Confirming the incident and current situation, the Club Secretary Michael Onikute said;
"It's such a disastrous incident. We have prepared well for the game against Ifeanyi Ubah and have had the player resting after dinner which they had Semovita and Egusi only for me to get a call that they are in pain and all I could think of what getting them to the hospital alongside the Team Doctor.
"In a bid to keep them safe and have a clean bill of health the camp was fumigated yesterday only for this casualty to befall us on the eve of a vital game against Ifeanyi Ubah."

EFCC arraigns former Enugu State Chief Judge

The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), on Friday arraigned former Enugu State Chief Judge, Justice Innocent Umezuluike before an Enugu High Court for alleged corruption.

Umezuluike appeared before Justice Anthony Onovo on a one-count charge of using his office to confer corrupt and unfair advantage.

The EFCC is accusing him of receiving N10 million donation from Chief Arthur Eze in February 2014, who was a litigant in a pending and concluded civil matter presided over by the former chief judge.

It said that Eze, the Chief Executive Officer of Oranto Petroleum LTD, made the donation at the launch of Umezuluike’s book “ABC of Contemporary Land Law in Nigeria.”

The EFCC said the money was drawn from the account of Oranto Patroleum LTD and paid into Umezuluike’s Zenith Bank Account.

Counsel to the commission, Mr Wahab Shittu told the court that the action is contrary to Section 19 of the Independent and Corrupt Practices and Other Related (offence) Act (Laws of the Federation) 2000.

The former Chief Judge, however, pleaded not guilty to the one-count charge.

Counsel to the defendant, Mr Agu Gab-Agu, asked the court to grant Umezuluike bail on self recognition and to address him as “Honourable Justice”.

He argued that the former chief judge was granted bail on self recognition in a similar matter pending before the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt.

The prosecuting counsel, Shittu did not object to the bail request, but pleaded with the court for accelerated trial of the case.

Justice Onovo granted the former chief judge bail in the sum of N1 million and ordered that he be addressed as Justice Umezuluike during the trial.

The Judge adjourned the case till Oct. 26-27, and Nov. 2-3, 2017, for definite hearing.

Amaju Pinnick Meets UFC Fighter Conot McGregor At Gucci Store In Beverly Hills


The NFF president met with the UFC fighter at a Gucci store in Beverly Hills. McGregor is getting ready for his fight with Floyd Mayweather in August.

Singer, Jaywon, Shares DM He Got Of An Invitation To Join Illuminati So He Could Become Rich And Famous


Jaywon shared a message he got in his DM asking him to join Illuminati so he can become rich and also get famous in life.

Don't Be Too Quick In Judging Celebrities With Crashed Marriages - Saint Obi Tells Nigerians

Veteran Nollywood actor, Saint Obi has pleaded with Nigerians not to be too quick in judging celebrities whose marriages have crashed.

According to the actor, Nigerians should not be too quick to judge their crashed marriages because they won’t understand the dynamics that operate in their homes.

The actor, in a recent interview with New Telegraph, made the statement while reacting to the cases which result to crashed marriages among celebrities.

He said: "Firstly, I must say that violence is not good. But sometimes, when it comes to issues about crashed marriages and stuffs like that, what I always say is that ‘don’t be too quick to judge’, because until you get married, I know you are, you won’t understand the dynamics that operate in homes.

'What works for Mr ‘A’ or Miss ‘A’ may not work for Mr ‘B’ and Miss ‘B’. So, things lead to things; but my advice is that rather than become violent, maybe you walk away or maybe give each other some space.'

'Sometimes some artistes push the other to the extreme, I say sometimes, not always. So, it is just the ability for one to understand when he is being pushed overboard, and control that urge to go overboard because some people can be terrible, and some people can be nice.'

'So, I will never advise anybody to be violent no matter the situation; but some people push people to the extreme,' he said.

Wednesday, July 12

Guess who?


In this group photo is a former government
official who is now a ruler in a state in Northern
Nigeria. Comment when you figure it out.

‘Yahoo boys’ took over Police Facebook Page to recruit prospective fraudsters

Suspected Internet fraudsters, popularly called Yahoo boys, have hijacked the Facebook page of the Special Fraud Unit of the Nigeria Police Force for the recruitment of new members.

The suspects, through a series of posts, demanded between N5,000 and N50,000 from those who wanted to learn classified sites for defrauding people, especially foreigners, and offered options of online, as well as physical teaching platforms.

Hundreds of persons, including students, graduates and ladies, indicated interest in learning the skills for making quick money and provided their mobile numbers on the SFU Facebook page.

The SFU in a post tagged, ‘Common Tricks Yahoo boys use to Swindle Foreigners Revealed,’ had warned people against falling victims of the fraudsters.

The comments had reached over 1,762 with 158 shares as of 8.17pm on Tuesday.

In one of his comments, one Thomas Joshua, wrote, “If you are interested in G (Yahoo yahoo), message me ASAP (as soon as possible) via +2349021933459. Tutor fee is 5k (N5,000). I will teach you how to make cool money in a week and if you have interest in hacking, wire transfer, ATM card hacking etc., message me ASAP.”

One Kingxam Millionz stated that he ran tutorials on classified sites such as Dating, Spamming, Next of kin, Letgo and Grant, among others, with a fee ranging from N5,000 to N15,000.

Another poster, Steve Emmanuel, gave out his email address and phone number, 07064229454, to intending members, saying “Hello dear friends, for those that want to be Yahoo boys, here comes your opportunity.”

One Desmanking Destiny, who replied Emmanuel on the SFU platform, said he was “100 per cent serious” to learn the skill.

A graduate, Ajisafe Adekunle Olowolayemo, said he was jobless and was desperate to go into cybercrime.

He wrote, “Please, I’m a graduate of Marine Engineering… I have been jobless for good four years. I sought jobs in so many shipping companies, but to no avail. Please, I need a boss who will teach me the rudiments and basis of Yahoo yahoo.”

A poster with an alias, Kvng Segzkid, said, “I am a graduate of Science Laboratory Technology. Since 2015, I have yet to get a job. I have no choice but to venture into gee (Internet fraud). I need a boss and promise to be loyal and honest with him.”

One Sanni Rasheed cautioned the posters on the criminal chats, saying “This act will be prosecuted under the law of the country.”

But one Hon Stainless Cash, dared the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and other security agencies to come after him.

He said, “To all the EFCC and SARS on this page, if you intend to trace me, please do trace me or track me if you can find me and I will highly welcome you. Please, make sure you track me; for your service is highly needed.”

Ladies also joined in the discussion and expressed willingness to engage in Internet fraud.

A commentator, Ugo Osinachi, wrote, “I want to be a gee guy. I need help from any boss please. Here is my number 09060655750; I am on WhatsApp and Facebook. Please bosses, help me out, I am serious about this.”

Titilayo Adetoba also said, “I want to become gee guy; any help should contact me, 09068646625. I am curious.”

The SFU spokesperson, ASP Lawal Audu, said the unit was aware of the comments on its Facebook page, adding that a manhunt had been launched for the posters.

He said, “We are tracking them, but we don’t want to speak about it publicly. We are making efforts. Scientific investigation is not something you do anyhow; otherwise, you won’t get at your targets.”

Osinbajo back from London, to preside over FEC meeting by 11am


The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo has returned to Nigeria after visiting his principal, President Muhammad Buhari in London on Tuesday night.

Spokesperson of the Acting President, Laolu Akande made the disclosure via his twitter handle, on Wednesday morning.

Akande said the Acting President will preside over Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting in Abuja by 11 a.m. today.

“Acting President, Osinbajo now back in Abuja from London & will be presiding over FEC this morning starting @ 11am at the Council Chambers in Aso Rock,” Akande wrote.

See The Moment Osinbajo Arrived London To See Buhari (Photos)

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo spent one hour with President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in London and then swiftly left to begin the journey home.

According to Reuters, Osinbajo arrived in the night at the Abuja House, where Buhari has been living since he arrived 8 May, from Nigeria for medical vacation.

Osinbajo spent one hour and left without making any comment on his meeting with President Buhari.

Osinbajo on arrival at Abuja House in London on 11 July to see President Buhari.
Osinbajo leaves Abuja House in London for the homeward journey.
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