•The businessman A Nigerian businessman operating a shop in South Africa has pushed back against demands by local protesters to shut down his establishment, saying closure would displace dozens of South African employees who depend on the business for their livelihoods. In a confrontation captured on viral video posted by NTU Zuma TV today, th...
•FBI operatives A 40-year-old Nigerian national, Leslie Chinedu Mba, has been sentenced to 19 years in a United States federal prison for his role in a $4 million romance scam and business email compromise scheme. The conviction was announced in a statement issued by the US Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Texas via its website [&hellip...
•Prison A United States court has sentenced a Nigerian national, Tochukwu Albert Nnebocha, to 97 months’ imprisonment for participating in a transnational inheritance fraud scheme that targeted elderly and vulnerable Americans. According to a statement published on the US Department of Justice website yesterday, “a Nigerian National was senten...
•Late Stephanie Irons and Adedapo Adegbola A UK-based Nigerian man, Adedapo Adegbola has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a woman he worked with after she ended their brief ‘controlling relationship’. Adegbola fatally stabbed 23-year-old Stephanie Irons in the neck at her home in Mapperley, Nottinghamshire, on 21 October. Notting...
•South African police patrol A 37-year-old Nigerian man, Osinakachukwu Onu, has been shot dead on the N12 highway in Klerksdorp, North West Province, South Africa, allegedly by police officers during a traffic operation. It was learnt from a report published by Independent Online (IOL) yesterday, a South African news outlet, that four traffic ...
•Indian policemen Delhi Police have arrested a 29-year-old Nigerian man accused of scamming more than 100 women across India by posing as a UK-based Korean businessman on a language exchange application. According to Hindustan Times, the suspect, identified as Stephane but operating online under the aliases “Dominic” and “Duck Young,” was appr...
An official of the United States (US) Department of Justice has explained how a Nigerian man, Farouk Adekunle Adepoju, living in the United Kingdom (UK), used fake emails to siphon $235,000 (N363 million) from a US university. According to US prosecutors, Adepoju hacked into the email system of a Pennsylvania construction company contracted by...
•The suspect, Edikan Adiakpan A 33-year-old Nigerian man, Edikan Adiakpan, has been arrested in the United States over his alleged role in a large-scale business email compromise and money laundering scheme. The scheme allegedly defrauded organisations across eight states, including a California-based medical research group focused on developi...
•Kelly Boyi After spending more than a decade building a life in Canada, Nigerian-born career coach Kelly Boyi has announced his decision to leave the country, citing economic uncertainties and shifting realities that have made staying increasingly difficult. In a message shared on social media, Boyi reflected on his 12-year journey that began...
•Man in handcuffs A Nigerian national, Okezie Ogbata, has been charged by a district court in Florida, United States, for defrauding more than 400 elderly and vulnerable victims of over $6m. The Southern District of Florida, last Wednesday, found Ogbata guilty of operating a transnational inheritance fraud scheme to dupe American senior citize...
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