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  • Police declare members of “Malaysian Boys’’ gang wanted in Enugu

    The Police Command in Enugu State has declared members of the “Malaysian Boys’’ gang wanted for alleged criminal activities.

    Police said the “Malaysian Boys’’ gang have been operating within Nimbo and Adani axis of Uzouwani Local Government Area of the state.

    The Command’s spokesman, SP Ebere Amaraizu, said in a statement on Sunday that the command had issued a warrant of arrest for all the members of “Malaysian Boys’’ gang.

    Amaraizu urged members of the public to urgently furnish it with information that could lead to their arrest.

    He also said that the command had intensified manhunt for the fleeing “Malaysian Boys” who had been a thorn on the flesh of the law abiding members of the public within Nimbo and Adani axis of Uzouwani council area.

    “They are advised in their own interest to report to the state Criminal Intelligence and Investigations Department (CIID) of the command in Enugu.

    “They are Ikechukwu alias Master; Okoro Ifeanyi alias Bukar; Mathew; Marcel Ojike; Ogbobe Ajulu; Odumodu alias Asogwa, Mike also known as Anyi Anyi and Hyacinth Ugwu Julius.

    “Others are John Okwelli; Anselem also known as Photo; Ikechukwu Aaron; Nnamdi Michael; Gabriel also known as Gabos as well as others known as Fela, Zero, Akwasa, Mmiri and Ratty.

    “The command gathered that these group of fleeing suspected hoodlums and mischief-makers masquerading under the aegis of Malaysian Boys operating in their habitat at the dreaded Malaysian Forest, come out to unleash mayhem on residents of Nimbo community and its environs,’’ he said.

    Amaraizu said that the police was already working with relevant stakeholders to fish them out anywhere they might be within and outside the country.

    The police on acting on intelligence report, raided the said dreaded forest (Malaysian Forest) and arrested some of the suspected hoodlums.

    Police also recovered dangerous exhibits.

     

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  • Quit Notice on Igbos: I’ll turn myself in when declared wanted – Yerima

    Sequel to the quit notice issued to Igbos in the north and the subsequent controversies this has generated, the leader of the Arewa Youths Consultative Forum, Shettima Yerima, who was among those that issued the threat said he would submit himself for questioning if declared wanted.

    According to him, he was not on the run and had nothing to fear because he only expressed his views as a Nigerian.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that prominent Northern youth associations after a recent joint meeting tagged ‘Kaduna Declaration’ issued a serious threat to Igbos residing in the region to vacate on or before October 1 (Nigeria’s Independence Day) 2017 or face physical attacks.

    Apart from Yerima, those who endorsed the resolution were Nastura Sharif (Arewa Citizens Action for Change); Aminu Adam (Arewa Youth Development Foundation); Alfred Solomon (Arewa Students Forum); Abdul-Azeez Suleiman (Northern Emancipation Network) as well as Joshua Viashman (Northern Youth Vanguard).

    However, in an interview with The Punch, the AYCF leader said he would voluntarily surrender himself if invited by security agencies.

    In his words: “I did not go into hiding and will never go into hiding. We need to put the record straight. For now, nobody is looking for me and I am ready to submit myself if I am called. I am not a joker. Nobody is looking for me and I am not hiding anywhere from anybody. I am in my village, I am a Nigerian. If anybody looks for me, I will submit myself. I am not above the law. I am not on the run.”

    While insisting that he would not go into hiding, Yerima insisted that the Igbo should leave Nigeria.

    He said, “Why should I go into hiding? I have a name, I have a face. I am not faceless.

    “I am not hiding anywhere. Why should I hide? Where did I go wrong? Somebody wants to go and I said, ‘go, you’re free to go’. What is wrong with it?

    “You cannot be in our country and begin to clamour for another country. Go to your place and declare your own country, not in my zone. It is a simple language. I have not committed any offence.”

  • $48m fraud: EFCC declares Jonathan’s finance coordinator, Olejeme wanted

    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has declared wanted, Dr. Ngozi Olejeme, the Deputy Chairman, Finance Committee of the 2015 Goodluck Jonathan Presidential Campaign Organisation.

    Olejeme, who was also Chairman of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund from 2009 to 2015, was accused of cornering about $48,485,127 from the NSITF.

    The accused and some directors in the company allegedly siphoned billions of naira, including funds meant for the payment of allowances of its staff as well as compensation to contributors.

    It was learnt that several directors and contractors were invited to explain their own side of the story, many of whom had since returned funds to the EFCC.

    An EFCC report, made available to newsmen alleged that the funds were said to have been traced to the accounts of some consultants and contractors, who were believed to be fronts for Olojeme and other directors in the NSITF.

    The anti-graft agency report said, “It was discovered that the NSITF accounts in First Bank of Nigeria and other banks have witnessed a total turnover of over N62,358,401,927 between 2012 and 2015 from the Employee Compensation Scheme contributions.

    “That out of the N62bn, the Federal Government contributed N13,600,000,000 while the sum of N48,758,401,927.80 was contributed by the private sector. That there were several payments to individuals and companies from the NSITF bank accounts for purported contracts or consultancy services.

    “That some individuals and companies that received these payments, in turn, transferred part of the monies directly to the NSITF officials while others transferred huge sums to bureau de change operators who changed them to dollars.”

    The report added that Olejeme sent her account officer at FBN to collect $48m from some NSITF contractors through a BDC operator.

    It stated, “That through this process, Dr. Ngozi Olejeme, the then NSITF board chairman, has collected a total sum of $48,485,127 from Mr. Chuka Eze (her account officer at FBN), which cash he collected on her behalf being the dollar equivalent of monies paid to BDCs by NSITF contractors.

    “That she has refused to honour invitation and all efforts to get her to come and tell her own side of the story have proved abortive hence her arrest warrant has been obtained from court.

    “We ask for the EFCC chairman’s approval to declare the suspect wanted.”

    The spokesman for the EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, said Olejeme had been declared wanted.

    He urged members of the public to offer information that could lead to her arrest.

    “Yes, she has been declared wanted. Members of the public are advised to give us information that would lead to her arrest,” he said.

  • FBI declares Nigerian, Kelechi James wanted over $5 million cyber fraud

    FBI declares Nigerian, Kelechi James wanted over $5 million cyber fraud

    The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations, FBI, has declared a Nigerian, Kelechi Declan James, wanted.

    The FBI made this known on its Twitter handle and its website on Friday.

    According to the FBI, the accused has federal criminal charges against him from an investigation by FBI New York’s Cyber Crime Task Force.

    As alleged in a complaint sworn out of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Mr. James, along with four other co-conspirators, ran an e-mail compromise scheme that resulted in losses of more than $5 million for their victims.

    As part of scheme, the suspect and his co-conspirators allegedly defrauded victims across the U.S. by tricking them into wiring money to bank accounts the victims believed were owned by friends or business associates.

    They did this in two ways: by overtaking an e-mail account of an individual trusted by the victim and then requesting money be wired to a bank account; or by developing a relationship of trust with victim like an Internet romance and then asking the victim to wire money, the American agency said.

    As soon as the money was wired, it would be moved from one account to another, and the funds would be withdrawn. Mr. James’s role in this scheme was to withdraw the money from bank accounts, the FBI said.

    “James is known to frequent the Brooklyn neighborhoods of East New York (Crescent Street and Loring Avenue; Vermont Street between Blake Avenue and Dumont Avenue), Brownsville, Bedford-Stuyvesant (MacDougal and Hull Streets), Crown Heights (Park Place and Utica Avenue), Flatbush (E 29th and Avenue D), and East Flatbush (East 51st and Winthrop Street),” the agency said.

    The FBI offered a $1,000 reward for information that leads to his arrest.