Bowale O. Arisekola is a Nigerian investigative journalist based in Ireland. He specializes in narcotic, politics, fraud and international money laundering.
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School drop-out arrested over $96,000 scam
A former Nigerian university student Okoro Osagie Victor has been arrested for duping foreigners up to the tune of $ 96, 607 through the internet. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission of Nigeria picked up the 23-year-old popularly known as Jerry Finger at the Benin City. - The former Chemical Engineering student who dropped out of the university in 2004 due to what he called ‘family issues’ came in contact with the law following a petition by a regional compliance officer with Money Gram International, who suspected that the large number of foreign ladies, mostly Americans and Germans, who have been wiring money to the fraudster were victims of fraud.
The suspicion was…AU fights for 20 Nigerians in Libya
Twenty Nigerians on death row in Libya may not be executed after all - if the country's leader, Muamar Ghadafi, heeds an order by the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) to suspend their execution. It is yet uncertain if Ghadafi, who is also the chairman of the AU, would obey the order. - The ACHPR, based in Banjul, The Gambia, is an organ of the AU charged with overseeing member-countries compliance with their legal obligations under the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights.
Recently, the Chairperson of the House of Representatives Committee on the Diaspora, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, alerted Nigerians on the plight of Nigerians on death row in Libya.
S…Fugitive Nigerian banker reports to UK Police
The former Group Chief Executive Officer of Nigeria's Intercontinental Bank Plc, Erastus Akingbola, is not likely to return to the country until he is formally charged to court, but he has reported himself to UK authorities after being declared wanted in West African's most populous country. - A statement issued on his behalf by his Media Assistant, Suleiman Adebajo, in Lagos, said: “Akingbola wishes to make clear – in light of escalating press speculation – that he is most emphatically not evading arrest by the law enforcement agencies in Nigeria or ‘on the run’.”
Akingbola, who the statement addressed as the Group Chief Executive, and a Director of I…Nigerians manufacture first armoured carrier
A Nigerian made armoured car was on Thursday launched by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua at the eagle square in Abuja. It is the first home made armoured car, with most of the materials used in its production sourced locally, while others were imported. - It was built by two Nigerian brothers who recently relocated from the United States of America. The brothers; Victor and Johnson Obasa, came back home to use their talent to boost security and also create employment in the country.
The brothers are based in Ekiti State and the duo own a company named Mobile Truck Technology where they nurtured and built the first Nigerian armoured car.
According to Johnson Obasa, the local production of…Nigeria: IGP cited in forgery scandal
Nigeria's Inspector General of Police, Mike Okiro is alleged to have forged a signature that enabled him obtain a N166 million ($1,105,193) loan from the liquidated Lead Bank Limited. - Social watchers are recommending the arrest of the top police boss. The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC, on Saturday accused Okiro of being one of the culprits of the failed banks saga. He was said to have obtained the loan between 2000 and 2001 to execute a pipeline laying contract he won from Nigeria Agip Oil Company, NAOC, which he failed to pay back.
Reacting to this development, a Lagos lawyer, Paul Ogundele, told AfricaNews that forgery is a serious criminal offence, therefore Okiro shoul…Nigerians arrested in fake marriage deal
A Nigeria citizen Ibraheem Adegoke Buraimoh and Ibraheem Adeneye, a naturalised United States of America citizen have been indicted for conspiring to commit marriage fraud, according to a US Attorney's Office release. - The prosecution of these two men began with the filing of a criminal complaint that alleged agents of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement began an investigation earlier this year into the possibility that an alien was attempting to arrange a fraudulent marriage with an American citizen in order to obtain a favorable change of immigration status from Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Adeneye, a naturalised US citizen, allegedly acted as a broker to arrange a fraudul…Nigeria: University student jailed for fraud
A final year student of the Department of Survey and Geo-Informatics Engineering, University of Lagos, Nigeria, Lawal Adekunle Nurudeen, has been sentenced to 19 years imprisonment for obtaining $27,900.91 from an Australian woman, Pee Loo Rosalind Summer by false pretense. - The convict was arraigned before Justice M.O Obadina of Ikeja High Court on 19-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretense and forgery.
He was found guilty on all the counts and consequently sentenced to 12 months imprisonment on each count. The convict was also ordered to pay the sums of $5,900, (N526, 117.15) and any interest standing to his credit in his savings account with the Ikorodu branch of …Nigeria: Football star jailed 13 years
Former Super Eagles defender, Godwin Okpara, has been sentenced to 13 years in prison after having been found guilty of raping a 13-year-old girl. The French court also found Okpara's wife, Doyin, and mother-in-law guilty. They were sentenced to 15 and 5 years imprisonment respectively. - The jail term was confirmed to the Street Journal according to this reporter on Saturday night by an official of French Ministry of Justice but silent on whether there will be an appeal or not. The court sitting in Yvelines near Paris handed-out the guilty verdict on last year after examining facts of the rape of the young female compatriot he brought to France five years ago but waiting for the confirmatio…Nigeria: Housewives happy with curfew
It is honeymoon all over again for several hitherto lonely married women in the Bauchi State of Nigeria as a curfew is imposed in the area following recent disturbances. - News reports say the dusk-to-dawn curfew continues eternally as the development has compelled husbands to stay indoors from 5p.m. to 7a.m. the next day. Governor Isa Yuguda imposed the curfew on the entire Bauchi metropolis to curtail a religious crisis that erupted in some parts of the state capital last Friday.
One of the married women said: “If not because of the food items in the house that will finish and we will have to buy them again, and we need money to do other things and the children are still going to …82 Nigerians deported from Europe
More than 30 Nigerian nationals have been deported from the Republic of Ireland on Thursday night on a flight to Lagos. The charter flight landed in Dublin carrying 45 deportees from the United Kingdom and seven from Switzerland and Germany before leaving for the Nigerian commercial city last week. - Irish Times reported on Friday that The Irish Refugee Council has called for one of the deportees to be allowed to return to Ireland to care for her two young sons, who were born in Dublin and have Irish citizenship.
The 32-year-old woman, who had been living in Mosney, Co Meath, with the children, aged 2½ and nine months, was deported after her application for asylum was denied.
The chi…Nigeria: Fake journalists invade presidency
Four Nigerian youths faking as journalists gained access to the seat of government, Aso Rock, to attend an event. They interviewed some dignitaries and were almost going undetected until presidential press corps members became suspicious of their act and alerted the State Security Operatives. - The fake "journalists" who invaded the presidential palace when Nigeria's Vice President Goodluck Jonathan was presiding over a programme are Oluwagbenga Isaac Idowu (Vine News), Olusegun Falodu (City People), Utomi C. Joshua (City People), and Muyiwa Joseph (Next on Sunday).
Upon interrogation the suspects stated that they were forced to forge the identity cards of the media houses so they could a…Nigerian busted in bank fraud
An internet fraudster has been jailed for his part in a worldwide scam, which saw millions of pounds stolen from people's bank accounts. - Adewale Taiwo, 26, who worked as a process engineer at Grimley Smith Associates Ltd, based in Brigg, was one of the 'big players' in the UK arm of the Dark Markets website - an invitation only forum for criminals to buy and sell bank card details.
Taiwo obtains confidential online banking details from chat rooms and bank workers. He then used the details to hack into personal accounts and transfer huge sums of money - of which he took a percentage - to clients worldwide. Taiwo, of Victoria Dock, East Hull, admitted at Hull Crown Court, of defrauding ar…Nigeria: 100 sacked for aiding drug barons
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) of Nigeria has sacked 100 members of staff involved in aiding and abetting drug deals. Director General of NDLEA, Lanre Ipinmisho, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja at the weekend. - He said the officers were found guilty by the disciplinary committee set up by the agency for various offences. “In any establishment, you always have some bad eggs. So we fished them out and they were asked to face disciplinary action", he said.
Ipinmisho said the NDLEA was dealing with people who could do anything under the influence of drugs, adding that corrupt staff would not be tolerated in the agency.
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