Tag: Yahoo Boy
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Photo: Protests as ‘Yahoo Boy’ rapes six-year-old girl in Edo
A middle-aged man, Okehelem Oyenma, on Monday narrated how a suspected internet fraudster, otherwise known as Yahoo Boy, Destiny Obiyan, defiled his six years-old daughter, (names withheld), after luring her with rice and egg. The incident allegedly occurred at Edobor Street, off Uwelu quarters, Egor local government area of the state. Oyenma made the allegation…
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Court orders ‘yahoo boy’ to pay N50,000 fine, control traffic for three months
Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin ordered one Kolade Emmanuel Balogun to pay a fine of N50,000 and control traffic for the next three months. The Ilorin zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) secured the conviction of Kolade who was charged to court for offences bordering…
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How Yahoo boy hacked into my account – Fashola
Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has spoken on being defrauded of the sum of N3.1 million by a Yahoo Boy who is currently being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Malik Wakili was docked at the Federal High Court, Lagos, for allegedly impersonating the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde…
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Court sentences yahoo boy to 35 years in prison
A Kwara State High Court in Ilorin on Tuesday sentenced an internet fraudster, Temitope Charles, to 35 years in prison without an option of fine. The Presiding Judge, Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar, while delivering Judgement on a criminal charge brought against the convict by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), pronounced the convict guilty and…
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Music producer threatens to sue EFCC for parading him as “Yahoo Boy”
An Abuja-based music producer and photographer, Mr Nasiru Ali, popularly known as “Kozzographa”, on Sunday threatened to sue the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for wrongly calling him a fraudster (Yahoo boy). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ali was among 10 suspected internet fraudsters paraded on May 17 by the EFCC…
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I can’t date a ‘Yahoo boy’- Ebun Hodo
Rising actress, Ebun Hodo has stated that she cannot date internet fraudsters popularly known as ‘Yahoo boys’. The graduate of English and Literary Studies from University of Calabar maintained that she cannot date an internet fraudster though she sees internet scam as their own way of pursuing life. The light-skinned damsel made this known in…
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Yahoo boy cuts lover’s tongue after defrauding her N2m
The police in Lagos have arrested a self-confessed Yahoo boy (fraudster) for cutting his supposed lover’s tongue in an attempt to kill her after hipnotizing and defrauding her of over N2 million. Recounting her ordeal to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos, the victim said she became hipnotized after she was…