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  • Family of Nigerian lady jailed in Dubai for exposing maltreatment of Nigerians cries for help

    Family of Nigerian lady jailed in Dubai for exposing maltreatment of Nigerians cries for help

    Dinchi Lar, a Nigerian lady who was jailed for one year in the United Arab Emirates, UAE, is yet to be regain freedom, following her incarceration for exposing the maltreatment of Nigerians at Dubai airports.

    The victim’s family stated made this known during a protest on Sunday in Abuja after the Dubai authorities sentenced her to one-year imprisonment.

    Under the UAE cybercrime law, taking a video or photograph of someone without his/her consent and posting such on social media is an offence punishable with one-year jail term

    On August 31, Lar had taken to her Twitter page to share photos and videos of herself and other people she identified as Nigerians being detained at the Dubai international airport.

    She wrote, “I am at the Dubai international airport and myself and some tiger Nigerians with valid visas are being held in a room hours after arriving with no explanation and no information on what we can do. Please help me. There is more than 20 of us.”

    They are capitalising on the fact that she made a video then posted it on her Twitter timeline to narrate the ordeal

    In a series of posts that followed, Lar accused the airport authorities of humiliating Nigerians.

    On Saturday, her family, in a post by one @jerrydoubles, said she was sentenced for exposing the maltreatments of Nigerians in Dubai.

    The post read in part, “It is sad and regrettably heartrending to tell you all that Dinchi Lar was sentenced on 12th Oct 22, to 1yr in jail in Dubai. Her family is devastated and Nigeria didn’t save her. Her sentence came from the backdrop that she got a family visa to travel. But in fact, she was traveling with her sister. It got messy and complicated. She was released on arrival after being detained for several hours, only to be sentenced when she was returning to Nigeria.

    “They are capitalising on the fact that she made a video then posted it on her Twitter timeline to narrate the ordeal. They said it’s cybercrime in their country. She went ahead to delete it. Still, that didn’t soften them. Now she’s jailed. We are planning a protest at the Dubai consulate in Abuja.”

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) gathered that some family members and friends protested on Sunday against her sentencing, stating that she was “detained in Dubai since September 6.”

    The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, in a release by its Head of Media, Public Relations and Protocols Unit, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, said Lar was convicted under the UAE cybercrime law.

    The release read in part, “Under the UAE cybercrime law, taking a video or photograph of someone without his/her consent and posting such on social media is an offence punishable with one-year jail term or a fine between approximately $69,000 and $137,000, or both jail term and fine.

    “Ms Lar made and tweeted the viral video of the UAE official at the airport. She was sentenced on the 12th of October and has 15 days to appeal the judgment. Ms Dunchi Lar can still appeal the ruling and has been assured of moral and consular support by the Nigerian mission in Dubai.”

  • Nigerian businessman, Obieze Nestor dies in Dubai prison after being arrested for flaunting money on Instagram

    Nigerian businessman, Obieze Nestor dies in Dubai prison after being arrested for flaunting money on Instagram

    A Nigerian businessman whose name has been given as Prince Obieze Nestor has allegedly died in police custody in Dubai, following his arrest for allegedly displaying hard currencies online.

    The man who is believed to be into oil and gas business is notorious for flaunting flashy pictures of himself on Instagram where he freely displays his exotic cars.

    Nestor was said to have been arrested on the 12th of January, 2021, for displaying wads of cash on his Instagram page.

    It is being alleged that after his arrest, he was denied access to his family and lawyer.

    A source who narrated the story said: “After he posted the video, the police stormed his house and arrested him. They didn’t allow anyone to visit him, not even his lawyer or his girlfriend had access to him.

    “Nestor was arrested by the C.I.D. Dubai and I believe he was tortured during interrogation. He died in police custody and he has been deposited in the mortuary.”

    While the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) and the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs are yet to react to the development, it is expected that a statement will be put out soon.

    It will also be recalled that when alleged Nigerian fraudster, Hushpuppi was arrested, the Dubai Police had said they kept a close watch on his social media activities. Hushpuppi was notorious for flaunting his extravagant lifestyle online.

  • Why we arrested ex-AGF Adoke on arrival from Dubai prison – EFCC

    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC confirmed Thursday night that its operatives arrested former justice minister and attorney-general Mohammed Bello Adoke at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja as he landed from Dubai.

    It said the fugitive ex-minister, now with a grey moustache, arrived into the waiting arms of its operatives.

    In a statement by spokesman Wilson Uwujaren, the commission said Adoke fled the country in 2015 and has pending criminal charge brought against him by the EFCC for alleged abuse of office and money laundering in respect of the granting of the Oil Prospecting License (OPL) 245 to Shell and ENI.

    “The government of former President Olusegun Obasanjo revoked the OPL 245, which the late General Sani Abacha granted Dan Etete, his then Petroleum Minister, and reassigned it to Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company.

    “Etete’s Malabu Oil and Gas, however, reclaimed the oil block in 2006 through the court. While Shell challenged the decision, a ‘fraudulent settlement and resolution’ was consummated under President Goodluck Jonathan’s government, with Shell and ENI buying the oil block from Malabu in the sum of $1.1billion.

    “Investigations by the EFCC into the deal revealed crimes that border on conspiracy, forgery of bank documents, bribery, corruption and money laundering to the tune of over $1.2 billion against Malabu Oil and Gas Limited, Shell Nigeria Ultra Deep (SNUD), Nigeria Agip Exploration (NAE) and their officials, culminating in criminal charges against Adoke, Etete and others, which are pending at both the FCT High Court and the Federal High Court, Abuja

    “The absence of the defendants slowed the prosecution of the criminal charges against Adoke, Etete, and four others, forcing the EFCC to obtain an arrest warrant against them on April 17, 2019.

    “Though Justice D. Z. Sanchi of Federal Capital Territory High Court, Jabi, Abuja on Friday, October 25, 2019, vacated the arrest warrant and ordered the EFCC to serve defendants through substituted means, the Interpol on November 18, arrested the former minister in Dubai.

    “His return to Nigeria clears the way for him to answer to the charges against him”, EFCC said.

  • Malabu: Ex-AGF Adoke released from Dubai prison, to arrive Nigeria today

    Mohammed Bello Adoke, former Attorney-general and justice minister, declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, is on his way to Nigeria from Dubai.

    According to a report by Premium Times, the embattled ex-AGF left Dubai Thursday morning after he was freed by the Interpol.

    It is not clear whether the EFCC will arrest him on arrival in Abuja at 3:40 p.m. local time, as it has no subsisting arrest warrant to do so.

    He was arrested by Interpol on November 11 after arriving in the UAE for medical check-up and summarily taken into custody.

    His arrest followed an Interpol red alert which the Nigerian government had issued against him as part of the ongoing legal actions over the controversial Malabu Oil deal.

    But the UAE authorities freed him after Nigeria failed to provide legal basis and other requisite bilateral supports to justify his continued detention, the online newspaper reported.

    The arrest warrant upon which Mr Adoke was arrested was nullified in October by Justice Zanchi, Federal Capital Territory High Court. The same judge had issued an arrest warrant against Adoke, alongside former oil minister, Dan Etete in April.

    Adoke’s lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, got the court to cancel the earlier order based on his argument that it was procured wrongfully, following an ex-parte request by EFCC.

    “I was able to explain to the court that the order breached my client’s right to a fair hearing. That no criminal charge had ever been served on him to warrant him been wanted for evading trial and that the order was made without full disclosure by the EFCC regarding the entire facts concerning Adoke especially that he had been acquitted in this same charges by another federal high court presided by Justice Nyako”, Ozekhome said then in October.