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  • Photo: Protests as ‘Yahoo Boy’ rapes six-year-old girl in Edo

    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 in Benin during a protest march to the secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Edo State Council.

    He further disclosed that the suspect was arrested at the scene of the crime with his native doctor.

    He said he became aware that all was not well with his daughter when he noticed that she was bleeding profusely from her private part.

    He said: “He took my daughter through the backyard to his own house, bought her rice and egg.

    “My daughter told me that after feeding her, he pulled her pant, puts his fingers and after that, he inserted his penis.

    “After that, my daughter started bleeding seriously.

    “Because of the curfew, the vigilance group assisted me and my wife to look for my daughter that night, not knowing that she was with this Destiny Obiyan in his house.

    “She told me that after he finished raping her, he asked her if she can find her way back home. We wanted her to take us to the house of the rapist that night but she said she can’t locate the house that night.

    “So the following day, I asked her to take her mother to the rapist house while I went to the Textile Mill police station to lay up the complaint.

    “So when I and the police got to Obiyan’s house, we met him and his native doctor with his charms inside his parlor.

    “According to the native doctor, they have already gone to buy drugs for my daughter to stop her bleeding.

    “On the floor were a handkerchief stained with her blood and some other charms were on the floor.

    “The police arrested the boy and the native doctor.

    “The rapist said he sent two persons, a boy and a young lady to buy the drugs and that they spent N2,000 for the drugs.”

    He said the test conducted on her, showed that she was defiled.

    “The test results from the police clinic and from the government hospital have shown that there were penetrations,” the distraught father said.

    He called on the police to investigate and ensure that his daughter gets justice.

    Confirming the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP, Chidi Nwanbuzor, said the matter was already in court.

  • Court orders ‘yahoo boy’ to pay N50,000 fine, control traffic for three months

    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 on internet fraud.

    The charge against the suspect read;

    “That you, KOLADE BALOGUN (a.k.a Willam Davis, alias Behemoth) sometime in March 2020 or thereabout at Ilorin, Kwara State within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court attempted to commit an offence of cheating by impersonation, pretending and representing yourself to be a white man called Willam Davis, alias Behemoth to an unsuspected white woman on dating site called SeekingArrangement as it is contained in your Gmail account: Willamdavis@gmail.com and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 95 of the Penal Code Law of Northern Nigeria.”

    Balogun was found guilty of the charges against him.

    The Judge who sentenced the convict on Thursday, August 13 after he pleaded guilty to the charge against him, said he should pay a fine of N50,000 and control traffic at a junction behind the Kwara State Ministry of Physical Planning for three months commencing from August 17 to October 17, 2020.

    He also ordered that other items like phones and laptops recovered from him, should be forfeited to the Federal Government.

  • 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 Fashola.

    He was accused of committing fraud using the minister’s name in March 2019.

    The EFCC told Justice C.J. Aneke that Wakili conspired with one Abdullahi Umar, who is at large, “to fraudulently impersonate the former Lagos State governor with intent to gain a monetary advantage for themselves.”

    The defendant “converted the total sum of N3,106,216, being the value of the minister’s Air-miles Skywards Account Number EK248739282 with the Emirate Airlines and which sum they reasonably ought to have known formed part the proceeds of their unlawful activity, to wit: fraud.”

     

     

    The Minister speaking on the incident, said the amount mentioned was the worth of Air Miles which the suspect derived from fraudulently hacking into his internet account and creating a false identity which he, among other benefits, used to buy first class tickets to various parts of the world.

    Fashola said this in a statement issued by his spokesman, Hakeem Bello.

    The statement read: “The Minister neither knew nor transacted any business with the suspect that involved or would have led to his being swindled.

    “The amount being mentioned was the worth of Air Miles which the suspect derived from fraudulently hacking into his (Minister’s) internet account and creating a false identity which he, among other benefits, used to buy first class tickets to various parts of the world.

    “Having persistently hacked into the accounts for over a period of six years, the suspect was tracked by the Minister until enough evidence was gathered which was then passed on to the security agencies.”

  • Court sentences yahoo boy to 35 years in prison

    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 sentenced him to seven years in prison on each of the five-count charge.

    Abdulgafar directed that the prison sentence should run concurrently.

    The Judge agreed that EFCC had proved its case beyond reasonable doubt, noting that the evidence of the only prosecution witness, Olamide Sadiq, who is an operative of the commission, was very strong and reliable.

    ” The evidence of PW1, Olamide Sadiq, was left unchallenged by the defendant; all the chats and text messages were printed from his email address in his presence.

    “I have considered the testimonies of the PW1, this honourable court is of the opinion that the PW1 is a witness of truth, the accused person indeed was in possession of fake documents, the prosecution has sufficiently link the defendant to the email address,” Abdulgafar said.

    Earlier, Defence Counsel, A.B Bakare, had urged the judge to temper justice with mercy, saying that his client was a first time offender.

    Prosecuting Counsel, Sessan Ola, opposed to the request and asked the court to sentence the convict according to the provisions of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act.

    Ola said: “going by the provisions of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act, the minimum punishment for this type of offence is seven years and maximum of 20 years, the court can not use its discretion outside the same.”

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that sometime in March, the EFCC had arraigned Charles before the court on a five- count charge bordering on internet fraud.

    Charles was allegedly caught with some documents indicating that he wanted to defraud unsuspecting members of the public.

    One of the five-count charge read: “the suspect, who is also known as Teresa Simon, was said to have been apprehended on February 28, 2019, in Ilorin in possession of documents containing false representation with intent to defraud, an offence said to be contrary to Sections 6 and 8 (b) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act,”

  • Music producer threatens to sue EFCC for parading him as “Yahoo Boy”

    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 operatives.

    The EFCC personnel raided suspects residence at Favour Land Estate, Life Camp, Abuja.

    According to the EFCC, they were arrested following a tip-off by an anonymous source.

    The agency said that the suspects would be charged to court as soon as investigations were concluded.

    But Ali in a petition to the EFCC Acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, on May 31 demanded a compensation of N100 million and an unreserved apology for arresting him wrongly and giving a libelous information to the public about him.

    The musician, through his lawyer, Mr Pelumi Olajengbensi, said that he would drag the EFCC to court for refusing to retract the negative publications about him after a seven-day ultimatum.

    “He lost a contract of five million naira with United Global Resolve for Peace (UNGREP), which he had been interviewed for and hitherto offered unequivocally because the contractors became disturbed and concerned by the publication thus doubtful of his reputation.

    “He has been ostracised by his colleagues and associates as well as senior associates who usually refer to him for jobs in the past, thereby losing their trust and reference.

    “He has been bombarded with a barrage of calls from friends and family members calling his reputation to question, while expressing their disappointment and indicating their intention to cut all connection with him forthwith.

    “His relationship with his intended life partner has been irreparably strained by the negative publicity generated by the unlawful arrest, particularly the publication on your media platform on same matter.

    “The publication has led to close clients taking their jobs off him and taking them to other persons thereby amounting to great level of loss and in some cases varying level of indebtedness,” Ali’s lawyer stated in the petition to EFCC.

    Ali also claimed in the petition that his health and psychology had been affected following the Gestapo way he was arrested and assaulted by the commission operatives .

    He said that the men that raided his home were dressed in black with no means of identifying them as officers of the EFCC.

    The petitioner had given the EFCC seven days to meet his conditions or face legal action.

  • I can’t date a ‘Yahoo boy’- Ebun Hodo

    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 a chat with TheNewsGuru

    “Yes I cannot date a Yahoo boy, but I have nothing against them. I see it as their own way of pursuing life”.

    When asked how she would react finding out her man is cheating on her, she said:” I will get mad at him at first, any woman would. At the same time, I will clean his mess and fix my home just like the wise women in the Bible”.

     

     

    Hodo said to succeed in Nollywood, one has to be creative and versatile.

    “As an actress you have to be very creative and versatile. Your uniqueness will distinguish you from others. You also need to be very patient and consistent. With this characteristics, you don’t look for jobs, rather jobs will look for you”.

  • 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 forced to wear the suspect’s underpants not knowing he had used same for rituals.

    According to her, the suspect conspired with her neighbour and others at large to perpetrate the evil act against her.

    The victim, a 32-year-old physiotherapist with National Orthopaedic Hospital, Igbobi, Lagos, said she met the suspect in January 2018 inside a Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) from Ikorodu to Lagos.

    “On that day, he gave me directions how to get to the state Police Headquarters and we exchanged contacts. We kept in touch for a while and he later told me he had an infection (Gonorrhea) which I treated him.

    “We became close and then lovers. I guess he must have hypnotised me such that I really didn’t know what I was doing then. I gave him my entire savings. He even lodged in a hotel for four months and I paid a bill of N185,000 at Ketu, Kosofe.

    “He later took me to his father at Ikosi. They live in an unhealthy environment which I pitied them and offered to help. I rented a house for myself in November 2018 and he visited me in the house that same month.

    “On Dec. 12, when he visited me, he said he wanted to buy a Toyota Venza, I asked him how much and when he googled it, he said it was N11.8 million. I asked him how he expected me to raise such money and he said we should open joint account.

    “I agreed and took my house document to get a loan and even promised to gather all I had from my cooperative account. Even the money I was saving for my Masters in Canada, I gave it to him because he said he knows an agent who can get genuine visas for us,” she explained.

    Trouble, however, started on December 14, when the suspect brought his pant and asked her to wear it.

    “Initially I told him I didn’t want to wear the pant because I was not comfortable in it. But he went and called my neighbour, Hellen, and they both forced the pant on me.

    “After wearing the pant, I was no longer myself. I was acting abnormally and was taken to my mother’s house. They took me to Ibadan for treatment and I became better. I did not suspect him then.

    “I kept relating with him. On Dec. 31, I went to a church for thanksgiving and was given some prayers to do every midnight. He came back to me and was still living with me.

    “While I was praying this January, he started shouting, stop praying they have wired the money, it is only $2000 from Alaska in USA. That was how I knew he was into Yahoo Yahoo,” she further explained.

    The victim said when the suspect discovered she had found out his illicit trade, he cut her tongue so that she would not be able to tell anyone all that had happened to her.

    NAN reports that the victim had difficulty talking as her speech was impared due to damaged tongue.

    The suspect, in his confessional statement to the police, admitted being a fraudster, adding that he gave one Helen (victim’s neighbour) N300,000.

    Spokesman for the police in Lagos, CSP Chike Oti, confirmed the development, stressing that two people had been arrested in connection with the crime.

    Oti said the police was investigating the case, stressing that they were on the trail of others involved with a view to bringing them to justice.