•Peter Obi The Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Mr Peter Obi has criticised the current administration, saying there are more “Yahoo people” in government than outside. He stated this during his keynote address at the 4th graduation ceremony of Nexford University, themed “Lead the Change; Ignite Your Future.” Obi str...
•Some of the suspects No fewer than 37 suspected internet fraudsters, popularly known as ‘Yahoo Boys,’ have been arrested in Awka, the Anambra State capital. The suspects were arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in a sting operation at Commissioners’ Quarters, Dr. J. O. Ukwutinife Close in Ifite, Awka....
Armed internet fraudsters, popularly referred to as Yahoo Boys, have killed an officer after opening fire on a team of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Anambra. The incident which occurred yesterday, left another critically injured as the officers scampered to safety due to the unexpected gunshots, reports Daily Trust. Th...
Justice Muhammad Lawal Shuaibu, a Presiding Judge at the Court of Appeal, Sokoto Division, today urged anti-corruption agents to focus on larger figures involved in corrupt practices, rather than targeting “yahoo boys.” Justice Shuaibu made this call during the opening of the North West Zonal Attorney General’s Anti-Corruption Forum (AGAF), or...
•The American woman An unidentified American woman has narrated how two Nigerian internet fraudsters popularly known as “Yahoo boys” duped her of a huge sum of money in romance scams. The not-so-little above 50-year-old woman also declared her love for Nigerian men, describing them as the “sexiest and most handsome men on this planet” despite ...
Fifteen individuals suspected of involvement in internet fraud, commonly known as “Yahoo Boys,” were arrested on Monday by the Benin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Benin City. The EFCC revealed that the arrests were made based on reliable intelligence regarding the suspects’ alleged participation in...
•Some suspected Yahoo boys In a bid to evade strategies deployed by law enforcement agencies to end their illegal activities, fraudsters, commonly known as ‘Yahoo boys’, who primarily exploit digital cyberspace to defraud unsuspecting members of the public of their hard-earned money, now resort to various shady means, including seeking spiritu...
•Computers A cyber-security specialist, Mr Chidiebere Ihediwa has advised the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to devise methods of re-orientating arrested educated online fraudsters (aka Yahoo Boys) to become information technology specialists. According to him, this strategy is better, rather than allowing them to languish in detenti...
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