Na waa o, from wearing a wedding ring, to the wearing of Chinese bangles, HANDCUFFS, Sorry for the Nigerians.

Me_Aboki:

Correction: they are not Nigerians but BIAFRANS !

Is this one Biafran too?

Nigerian groom at sham marriage where he chose Celine Deon's 'The first time ever I saw your face' is jailed for 12 months
UKBA warned by Hull Registrar that couple did not know each other
Agency secretly filmed a wedding video of the bridal party at wedding
Arrested those involved and sham bride and groom jailed today
By ANNA EDWARDS

PUBLISHED: 16:01, 11 July 2013 | UPDATED: 18:00, 11 July 2013

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A Nigerian groom has been jailed for 12 months for a sham marriage where he picked Celine Dion’s song 'The first time ever I saw your face' to march down the aisle.

Hull University masters student Jayeola Abiola, 29, needed to marry to stay in the UK, and paid Portuguese Vania Pinheiro-Fernandes, 29, to be his bride.

They met for the first time at their dress rehearsal and he stumbled to pronounce her name.


Vania Pinheiro-Fernandes (right) bought her dress, tiara, wedding veil, and flowers from British Home Stores in Leeds for £245 with the groom, Jayeola Abiola (left) watching

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2360333/Nigerian-groom-sham-marriage-chose-Celine-Deons-The-time-I-saw-face-jailed-12-months.html

as long as somebody's wearing a wedding dress, no need to be picky about who the bride is. . . . . . .

likewise, as long as someone from the male species is there in a suit and answering the name of groom, why look a gift horse in the mouth. . . . . .

babyosisi:

I wonder
There are many overgrown Naija babes in Britain looking for a man to ask them what they are selling

My sister, to ask what they are selling is one thing. When they call the price plus conditions attached, its another thing. Who wan buy bad market?!!

tpia@:
as long as somebody's wearing a wedding dress, no need to be picky about who the bride is. . . . . . .

likewise, as long as someone from the male species is there in a suit and answering the name of groom, why look a gift horse in the mouth. . . . . .

Some gift horses are actually Trojan horses. The suprises and shockers are well hidden.

My dear its not only igbos dat engage in sham marriage , everyday here in ondo more dat one sham marriage take place for visa lottery. I dnt blame dem neither do I support. All I knw is dat I will nva take part in such , its so demeaning especially wen u r caught.

See Nairaland bias. Na waoh! Igbos need to go create their own nairaland where they will control what makes it to frontpage. Hehehehe. This is the first time Igbos are caught in sham marriage business in the UK and it made front page. Yorubas have been caught over and over; those news have been posted here over and over and they did not make front page. Even Yorubas marry their own daughters and sisters to enable them either go or stay in the UK.

Let's do some comparative analysis: See sources https://www.nairaland.com/1375619/more-than-80-yorubas-uk

FOUR people have been jailed for more than six years for their part in a sham marriage scam involving Nigerian and Dutch nationals.

The UK Border Agency (UKBA) investigation, working with Essex Police and other forces, was triggered when officers identified the suspicious travel patterns of passengers flying in and out of Stansted and Luton airports on tickets bought by Adeolu Eletu, a 29-year-old Nigerian.

On 10 February, officers from the UK Border Agency’s Immigration Crime Team (East), arrested Daniloush Solano, a 21-year-old Dutch woman, at Luton Airport as she attempted to board a flight to Amsterdam.

Investigations revealed that earlier that day Solano had married Eletu at a church in Wood Green, London.

Eletu was subsequently arrested on February 27 at his home address in Falcon Brae, Livingston.

His Nigerian girlfriend Helen Omoboye, 33, was also arrested.

Sylvernus Ogungbade, a 36-year-old Nigerian, was also arrested on February 10 after officers established that Solano had caught her taxi to Luton Airport from his home in Goldbeater’s Grove, Edgware.

Immigration checks revealed that Ogungbade, who was living alone, had recently applied for a visa on the back of his marriage to a Dutch woman who is still wanted by the UK Border Agency.

On Thursday at Luton Crown Court, Eletu, Ogungbade and Omoboye pleaded guilty to conspiring to breach the UK’s immigration laws. Eletu and Omoboye also pleaded guilty to perjury charges.

Eletu was sentenced to two years eight months, Omoboye was sentenced to 18 months and Ogungbade was sentenced to a year and eight months.

Solano had pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to breach the UK’s immigration laws and perjury at an earlier hearing on June 10. She was sentenced to 12 months.

Detective sergeant Andy Harvey, of Essex Police, said: “We started profiling passengers coming into Stansted Airport who only stayed in the country for 24 hours.

“This included young women coming in from Holland who when stopped and searched were found to be in possession of large sums of money.

“Through further enquiries and good police and partnership work with the UKBA, arrests were made in London and the Home Counties.

“We hope that these prison sentences will send a strong message to anyone else considering attempting to commit crime through Stansted Airport.”

http://www.eveningstar.co.uk/news/four_jailed_for_sham_marriage_scam_1_504714

24 June 2010

A Nigerian man has been jailed for 18 months after admitting he entered into a sham marriage in a bid to undermine the UK's immigration laws.

Olumuyiwa Otti, 40, pleaded guilty at Coventry Crown Court to a charge of providing a false statement to obtain a marriage certificate and seeking to obtain leave to remain in the UK by deception.

Otti, an illegal entrant to the UK, was arrested by officers from the UK Border Agency's immigration crime team on 7 January 2010 when he reported to a UK Border Agency office in Solihull. He was remanded into custody.

Officers were acting on intelligence that Otti had given a false address to the registrar of St John the Divine Church, Willenhall, Coventry before marrying a French woman at the church on 14 September 2009.

When questioned by UK Border Agency officers the French woman admitted taking part in a sham marriage and that Otti had paid her £3,000 to do so.

Sam Bullimore, UK Border Agency assistant director, said:
'The sentence handed down today shows how seriously we, and the courts, take these kinds of attempts to undermine our immigration laws. We will not tolerate immigration abuse and, as this conviction demonstrates, our immigration crime teams are creating a hostile environment for those who break the immigration laws.

'Sham marriages are not just about getting a ticket to the UK. Offenders are also involved in other forms of criminality. If we uncover marriages that are not genuine, we will challenge them and prosecute where appropriate. Our main aim is to identify those who are the organisers of sham marriages and destroy their criminal business.

'People should be under no illusion that marriage alone is enough to get permission to stay in the UK. Couples must also prove to the UK Border Agency that they have been in a genuine relationship for at least two years.'
Otti's conviction follows that of two other sham marriage offenders at the same court on Friday (18 June).
Olufunke Odunwo was sentenced to 18 months and Jephtah Emmanuel to 12 months.
Both the Nigerians admitted to a charge of conspiring to facilitate a breach of the UK's immigration laws. Odunwo additionally admitted charges of possession of a forged identity document and of providing a false statement to obtain a marriage certificate.
The couple had been arrested by officers from the UK Border Agency's immigration crime team on 4 March outside the Coventry diocesan registrar's as they applied for a common licence to marry.

Any foreign criminal sentenced to more than 12 months in prison for any offence is automatically considered for deportation.

Anyone who suspects someone of committing immigration related crime should contact Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 where anonymity can be assured.

https://www.nairaland.com/1375619/more-than-80-yorubas-uk

Man jailed after UK Border Agency foils sham marriage

11 June 2010
A bogus groom has been jailed at Leeds Crown Court for 12 months after plotting to stage a sham marriage.
Just days before the planned wedding, 23-year-old Shola Bansi Yaya - a Nigerian illegal immigrant - and his fake bride Adejumoke Ariyeye, 24, were arrested as they arrived at church for a meeting with the vicar. The marriage was stopped after an investigation by the UK Border Agency immigration crime team revealed that fake documents were being used in the marriage plans.
Yaya and Ariyeye, together with 20-year-old Portuguese accomplice Maria Da Grava Correia Tavares Da Silva, were sentenced today for arranging the fake marriage that would have enabled Yaya to apply to take up permanent residence in the UK. Yaya and Da Silva had already pleaded guilty, while Ariyeye, a Nigerian who was in the country legally, was found guilty at court last month.
Yaya was jailed for 12 months. Da Silva and Ariyeye both received suspended 12-month sentences.
The court heard how Yaya, who entered the UK illegally in 2003, approached the vicar at St Peter's Church, Morley, Leeds in October last year to make arrangements to marry Da Silva. However, his marriage application excited the suspicion of the Registrar to the Bishop and Diocese of Wakefield, who reported the marriage request to the UK Border Agency.
Officers from our immigration crime team launched an investigation into the planned marriage and discovered that many of the details and documents supplied by Yaya were falsified, including his UK address and immigration status. The court also heard that the woman Yaya had taken to meet the vicar was not Da Silva, but was Ariyeye who was fraudulently using Da Silva's Portuguese passport.
A wedding date was set for Saturday 12 December 2009, but on Tuesday 8 December a staged meeting with the vicar was arranged by the UK Border Agency. When Yaya and Ariyeye (claiming to be Da Silva) arrived at the church, they were arrested by officers from the immigration crime team. Further investigations by the team enabled them to trace Da Silva to an address in London, where she was arrested on 20 January this year. She admitted becoming involved in the scam after she had been offered £500 in exchange for her identity documents.
In interview, Yaya claimed he was introduced to Da Silva in London and then paid £3,000 to arrange a sham marriage to the Portuguese woman. He claimed that Da Silva had subsequently refused to take part in the marriage unless she was given more money, at which point it was arranged for Ariyeye to act as a stand-in.
Jeremy Oppenheim, regional director for the UK Border Agency, said:
'The UK Border Agency successfully thwarted this attempt to gain illegal residency in the UK by means of a sham marriage. The case demonstrates our determination to take action against those who try to falsify marriages in order to gain entry to the UK.
'We have specialist teams of immigration officers and police working side by side to investigate and prosecute cases just like this and ensuring people are not able to benefit from breaking the UK's immigration laws.'
Detective Inspector Don Newlove of the UK Border Agency immigration crime team said:
'This is one of a number of successful prosecutions into sham marriages carried out by the UK Border Agency North East, Yorkshire and Humberside immigration crime team.
'This clearly demonstrates the effectiveness of police and immigration officers working together to tackle immigration crime.'

3 Nigerians arrested in the UK in connection with organizing a FAKE marriage

A Nigerian groom picked Celine Dion's song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face to walk down the aisle for a sham marriage to a woman he had met only once before.

Leeds University masters student Jayeola Abiola, 29, first saw Portuguese 'bride' Vania Pinheiro-Fernandes, 29, at the dress rehearsal and struggled to pronounce her name.

But clearly confident he would get away with the con, he planned for the Canadian singer's love song to be blasted out in Hull's Guildhall to cement their bogus life together.

However, UK Border Agency officers had been tipped off and he was arrested before he even made it into the grand 19th century building.

Abiola, 29, of Grafton Street, Hull, and Pinheiro-Fernandes, of Park Hotel, Manchester, pleaded guilty at Hull Crown Court to conspiracy to breach immigration law by arranging a marriage so Abiola could remain in the UK.

Fixer Abiola Kumoye, 34, of Shillingford Road, Manchester, wept in court as he also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to breach immigration law and acquiring criminal property of £2,650, the first part of the fee for the sham marriage.

The court heard how the UK Border Agency had been called by the Hull Registrar who said the couple seemed to barely know each other when they were interviewed at the rehearsal.
One investigator said: 'You can't make it up. They really did pick "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" to be played in the ceremony.

'It shows, even if they never plan to spend their lives together, they have a sense of humour.'
The marriage was to cost £5,000. Around £2,500 was paid in advance, with the rest to be paid on completion.

Abiola's barrister Rodney Ferm told the court: 'He would like to be sentenced today as he is to be deported to Nigeria where he may well have work to go to.

Photo: Jaiyeola Abiola and Fixer Abiola Kumoye

Collins Kola Ayoola, a 32-year-old Nigerian, living in Ballymena, pleaded guilty to fraud at Downpatrick Crown Court.



Ayoola was living in Belfast when he was arrested in 2009 by UK Border Agency officers after he used the false passport to obtain an electoral card, open a number of bank accounts and register a business. His arrest was part of a nationwide operation by officers targeting illegal working, sham marriages, bogus colleges and organized immigration crime.



Ayoola was sentenced to 9 months for 3 counts of possession of false identity cards namely a false Nigerian passport, possession of false documents and seeking leave to remain in the UK by deception.



Earl Aiken, senior investigator, Northern Ireland, UK Border Agency said:



'The UK Border Agency is intensifying enforcement activity to tackle immigration crime and bring individuals to justice.



'We are determined to create a hostile environment which makes it harder than ever for illegal immigrants to come to the UK and put down roots.



'We hope this sentence will send the message that we will find and prosecute anyone who attempts to commit this type of fraud.'



In anther case, a Polish couple involved in sham marriages across the North West were jailed in November, 2011 at Burnley Crown Court.



The partners, who were both arrested in Spencer Road, Bradford, took part in sham marriages to Nigerian nationals and assisted in their unlawful immigration to the UK.



Jozef Badzo, 40, married Mercy Idehen a 44-year-old Nigerian on 6 May 2009 at All Saints Church, Church Street, Clayton le Moors, Lancashire.



Maria Pretczynska, 54 entered into a sham marriage with Lukman Durojaye, 43-year-old Nigerian on 15 December 2008 at St Peters Church, Stockport Road in Levenshulme. She also acted as a witness to Badzo's wedding to Idehen.



On November 17, Pretczynska was sentenced to 16 months after pleading guilty to assisting unlawful immigration and Badzo to 16 months for assisting unlawful immigration and 12 months for perjury - to run concurrent.



Dave Magrath, head of the UK Border Agency immigration crime team in the North West, said:



'These sentences send out a clear message to anyone thinking of taking part in this kind of criminal activity



'We have specialist teams of immigration officers and police working to investigate cases just like this to ensure people are not able to benefit from breaking the UK's immigration laws. Whether you take part in the marriage or arrange for others to stage fake weddings we are determined to track down those involved and bring them to justice.'

http://www.africanoutlookonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3410%3Anigerian-man-caught-with-fake-passportdocuments-at-uk-airport-&Itemid=681

Bizarre: Nigerian marries daughter for British visa
19 November, 2009 05:41:00 Reports


shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked


What on earth will make a man marry his daughter? That is the question many are asking a Nigerian Home Office worker who was accused of marrying his own daughter to get her a British visa.

The action already termed an ‘extraordinary scam’ is being investigated by the British Police.

According to the Daily Mail, Jelili Adesanya 54, has lived in Britain for more than 30 years and holds a British passport, but wanted his daughter, her husband and their four sons to join him from Nigeria.

It is expected she would try to remarry her real husband to get them all visas. Adesanya was accused of faking a wedding ceremony complete with a photograph of the happy "couple" which helped fool immigration officials that his daughter, Karimotu Adenike, was really his wife.

Miss Adenike, who is in her mid-30s, was duly granted permission to live in the UK.

They are waiting for her to be granted a permanent right to remain before they undergo a quiet divorce and attempt to bring the rest of her family here.

It is expected she would try to remarry her real husband to get them all visas.

But despite being tipped off two years ago, the Home Office seems to have done nothing to stop the scam by one of its workers.

Until recently, Mr Adesanya was employed as an occupational health nurse for the Home Office, working with immigration officials at Gatwick airport.

A whistleblower sent letters to the High Commission in Lagos and the UK Border Agency including specific details such as names, addresses, passport numbers and even a copy of the wedding photograph.

When there was no response, he sent emails to then Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and ministers Vernon Coaker and Phil Woolas on February 1 this year. He heard nothing.

Mr Adesanya, who came to Britain in 1976, flew back to Nigeria on May 29, 2007, and held the bogus wedding ceremony a few days later at a register office in Ikorodu, Lagos.

A source said: "They paid people to attend the wedding so that the British High Commission in Lagos would believe it was genuine. The commission then gave Karimotu Adenike a two-year settlement visa in October 2007.

"On her settlement visa application form, of course, she did not mention that she already had a husband and four children.

"The date of birth on her Nigerian passport is not her real date of birth."

Miss Adenike is believed to have aged herself by 10 years on her wedding certificate to disguise the age gap with her father.

Although her settlement visa expired in October, she is hoping to be given the right to remain.

David Burrowes, the Conservative MP for Enfield Southgate and Shadow Justice Minister, was also tipped off by the whistleblower and wrote to the Home Office.

This time there was a reply, but it said that although the matter was "under investigation", no further information would be provided because it could "breach of our obligations under the Data Protection Act".

Mr Burrowes told the Mail: "I am very surprised and concerned that no action appears to have been taken, because the allegations are extremely serious."

Mr Adesanya, who lives with his daughter in Dagenham, Essex, vehemently denied the plot and said he had never been questioned about the allegations.

He said: "Married my own daughter? I have never heard anything like this in my life. I deny it. She is my wife, not my daughter."

However, asked to confirm his "wife’s’ date of birth, he said he did not know without checking her passport, and refused to allow her to speak for herself.

Unknown to him, his daughter had confirmed the arrangement when she told a friend she would shortly apply for her own British passport and "divorce daddy".

On Tuesday night Jonathan Sedgwick, from the UK Border Agency, said: "These individuals are already under investigation, and I want to make it clear that abuse of our immigration laws will not be tolerated.

"If we identify marriages which we believe are not genuine, we will challenge them and prosecute where appropriate.

"We are determined to send home any foreign nationals convicted of these types of crimes once they have served their sentences." Culled from Daily Mail

Rogue: Nigerian Samuel Shoyeju was jailed for falsely granting indefinite leave to remain to 44 non-EU residents who were not entitled to stay in the country

A UK Border Agency official who illegally issued scores of visas to immigrants which allowed them indefinite leave to remain in the UK has been jailed for seven years.
Nigerian Samuel Shoyeju was jailed for falsely granting indefinite leave to remain to 44 non-EU residents who were not entitled to stay in the country.

It has also emerged that many of those immigrants who received the visas almost four years ago still remain at large today.

Only 14 of the false letters that Shoyeju issued have been recovered, meaning most of the recipients have not been identified.
In jailing Shoyeju, who worked as a senior immigration officer, Judge Christopher Mitchell said the case threatened to undermine the hard-won reputation for 'probity and honesty' of British civil servants.

He added: 'Actions like yours call into question in the public mind the entire integrity of the immigration system when, at the present time, immigration and immigration decisions are extremely sensitive.'

Basildon Crown Court heard the 'treasured status' allowed immigrants to live, work and claim benefits as well as applying for full British citizenship.
The recipients, who are all believed to be Nigerian, ranged from asylum seekers to those who had already identified as 'overstayers'.

Prosecutor Lucy Kennedy said: 'Not all of those people have been traced.'

She added: 'This case has cost the taxpayer a significant amount of money, both in terms of the investigation and in terms of those who remain in the country untraced.
'He abused the system he was employed to protect and he did so for his own selfish reasons, not out of some misguided sense of altruism.

'It was a breach of trust which will no doubt undermine confidence in public servants employed to protect UK borders.'
Shoyeju, who worked as a line manager in Croydon, amended and destroyed electronic and paper records to cover his tracks.

Problems: Samuel Shoyeju was an immigration officer for the UK Border Agency. Many of those immigrants who received the visas from him are still at large today
He used colleagues' date stamps and accessed secure databases under other people's names to divert attention away from himself.

When his home computer was searched a file called 'Nigerian names' was found, relating to those he planned to grant visas to.

He was able to use a generic computer log-in to transfer secure files from Home Office systems without being identified, Ms Kennedy said.

'That system relies on the integrity of immigration officials themselves,' Ms Kennedy added.

'He had been employed to uphold immigration rules but, using his intricate inside knowledge of the system, he deliberately did the opposite.'

The 53-year-old, of Namur Road, Canvey Island, Essex, admitted misconduct in public office by falsely granting indefinite leave to remain between 2006 and 2007.

Although the prosecution has not been able to prove a financial motive, the court heard thousands of pounds were paid into his bank account during the time of the offence.

Stephen Linehan QC, in mitigation, said that there was not sufficient evidence that Shoyeju had a financial motive and could not be sentenced on that basis.
Judge Christopher Mitchell said: 'An immense amount of public time and money has been spent investigating and preparing this case.'

Shoyeju arrived in the UK in 1988 and was allowed to remain until 1991 as a student.

The married father-of-three was then granted indefinite leave to remain as the spouse of a British citizen and was granted full citizenship in 1996.

He began working as an immigration officer in 2002.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066621/Rogue-Border-Agency-official-granted-treasured-status-44-illegal-immigrants-jailed-SEVEN-years.html#ixzz1erKhy7W5

Rogue: Nigerian Samuel Shoyeju was jailed for falsely granting indefinite leave to remain to 44 non-EU residents who were not entitled to stay in the country

A UK Border Agency official who illegally issued scores of visas to immigrants which allowed them indefinite leave to remain in the UK has been jailed for seven years.
Nigerian Samuel Shoyeju was jailed for falsely granting indefinite leave to remain to 44 non-EU residents who were not entitled to stay in the country.

It has also emerged that many of those immigrants who received the visas almost four years ago still remain at large today.

Only 14 of the false letters that Shoyeju issued have been recovered, meaning most of the recipients have not been identified.
In jailing Shoyeju, who worked as a senior immigration officer, Judge Christopher Mitchell said the case threatened to undermine the hard-won reputation for 'probity and honesty' of British civil servants.

He added: 'Actions like yours call into question in the public mind the entire integrity of the immigration system when, at the present time, immigration and immigration decisions are extremely sensitive.'

Basildon Crown Court heard the 'treasured status' allowed immigrants to live, work and claim benefits as well as applying for full British citizenship.
The recipients, who are all believed to be Nigerian, ranged from asylum seekers to those who had already identified as 'overstayers'.

Prosecutor Lucy Kennedy said: 'Not all of those people have been traced.'

She added: 'This case has cost the taxpayer a significant amount of money, both in terms of the investigation and in terms of those who remain in the country untraced.
'He abused the system he was employed to protect and he did so for his own selfish reasons, not out of some misguided sense of altruism.

'It was a breach of trust which will no doubt undermine confidence in public servants employed to protect UK borders.'
Shoyeju, who worked as a line manager in Croydon, amended and destroyed electronic and paper records to cover his tracks.

Problems: Samuel Shoyeju was an immigration officer for the UK Border Agency. Many of those immigrants who received the visas from him are still at large today
He used colleagues' date stamps and accessed secure databases under other people's names to divert attention away from himself.

When his home computer was searched a file called 'Nigerian names' was found, relating to those he planned to grant visas to.

He was able to use a generic computer log-in to transfer secure files from Home Office systems without being identified, Ms Kennedy said.

'That system relies on the integrity of immigration officials themselves,' Ms Kennedy added.

'He had been employed to uphold immigration rules but, using his intricate inside knowledge of the system, he deliberately did the opposite.'

The 53-year-old, of Namur Road, Canvey Island, Essex, admitted misconduct in public office by falsely granting indefinite leave to remain between 2006 and 2007.

Although the prosecution has not been able to prove a financial motive, the court heard thousands of pounds were paid into his bank account during the time of the offence.

Stephen Linehan QC, in mitigation, said that there was not sufficient evidence that Shoyeju had a financial motive and could not be sentenced on that basis.
Judge Christopher Mitchell said: 'An immense amount of public time and money has been spent investigating and preparing this case.'

Shoyeju arrived in the UK in 1988 and was allowed to remain until 1991 as a student.

The married father-of-three was then granted indefinite leave to remain as the spouse of a British citizen and was granted full citizenship in 1996.

He began working as an immigration officer in 2002.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066621/Rogue-Border-Agency-official-granted-treasured-status-44-illegal-immigrants-jailed-SEVEN-years.html#ixzz1erKhy7W5

Crackdown on immigration fraud: UK Border Agency arrests 10 Nigerians

on January 26, 2011 / in Headlines 5:00 pm / Comments

By Emeka Aginam
The United Kingdom Border Agency has arrested 10 Nigerians over sham marriages and immigration fraud over the winter, which has so far led to the arrest of over 200 foreign nationals.

With this development, those found guilty, according to UKBA will face imprisonment and deportation.

It would be recalled that since December 2010, British courts have handed out jail sentences totaling over 12 years to Nigerians arrested in these operations.

On 6 December also, Tunde Ayammiyi, 50, and Bukola Arinkanmile, 28, according to the Press and Public Affairs department of the British Deputy High Commission in Lagos were sentenced to 20 months and three years respectively for conspiring to break immigration laws.

Similarly, Victoria Adesola, 34, the statement added, was jailed for two years for her involvement in sham marriage.
“Two fake grooms, Olarotimi Ojugbele, 41, and Idowu Komolafe, 34, were also jailed for 21 months each for their roles in sham marriages. In Belfast, Patrick Ozegebe, 34, was jailed for six months for trying to open a bank account with a false Nigerian passport” the BDHC said in the statement.

The European accomplices of those involved in sham marriages, according to trhe statement by BDHC were also jailed.
Czech ‘brides’ Nadesa Mirgova, 26, Anna Gabcova, 32, Pavel Mirga, 23, Kveta Pokosova, 45 and Czech ‘groom’, Roman Horvath, 35, all received jail sentences ranging from 16 months to 3 years, the statement added.

Simon Peachey, the Regional Director for the UK Border Agency in Africa, said:

“We welcome genuine visitors from Nigeria to the UK, but we will be tough on those who breach their visa conditions, and will seek to remove them from the UK.

We take abuse of the system very seriously. A marriage certificate alone does not give foreign nationals the right to live and work in the UK. Their relationship has to be genuine, otherwise they face prosecution or removal from the UK.”

Those attempting to break the UK’s immigration rules by obtaining a British passport fraudulently face a prison sentence, deportation and potentially being barred from re-entering the UK. A non-EEA national who receives a custodial sentence of 12 months or longer can be considered for deportation after the sentence has been served.”

Damian Green, the UK Immigration Minister, said:“Tackling immigration abuse is at the heart of the Government’s agenda. Those who facilitate sham marriages are breaking the law and will be held accountable for their actions.

“We have made enforcement action against sham marriage a top priority. Where there is evidence to suggest a wedding may not be genuine we will investigate and bring those involved to justice.“
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/01/crackdown-on-immigration-fraud-ukba-arrests-10-nigerians/#sthash.hP46acwG.dpuf

Goodysydney: Thank God his not a terrorists. Thank God he did not slaughtered and beheaded a young Bristish soldier like others did in UK.

Thank God you know your country men..frauding,murdering etc...

Idi Amin: Forget that thing, evrybody dey do am, no be only Nigerians. Here in US, its the order of the day or else getting a green card will be a forever pursuit. So stop blaming Igbo boys, mumu

Yea nice saying there, people should stop all these tribalism here and there, let's solve the real problems we are facing in this country. Anyway, to test ur
knowledge and play a free online version of who wants to be a millionaire, plus latest news visit www.nairaquest.com

Doff_Man:

Is this one Biafran too?

Nigerian groom at sham marriage where he chose Celine Deon's 'The first time ever I saw your face' is jailed for 12 months
UKBA warned by Hull Registrar that couple did not know each other
Agency secretly filmed a wedding video of the bridal party at wedding
Arrested those involved and sham bride and groom jailed today
By ANNA EDWARDS

PUBLISHED: 16:01, 11 July 2013 | UPDATED: 18:00, 11 July 2013

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A Nigerian groom has been jailed for 12 months for a sham marriage where he picked Celine Dion’s song 'The first time ever I saw your face' to march down the aisle.

Hull University masters student Jayeola Abiola, 29, needed to marry to stay in the UK, and paid Portuguese Vania Pinheiro-Fernandes, 29, to be his bride.

They met for the first time at their dress rehearsal and he stumbled to pronounce her name.


Vania Pinheiro-Fernandes (right) bought her dress, tiara, wedding veil, and flowers from British Home Stores in Leeds for £245 with the groom, Jayeola Abiola (left) watching

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2360333/Nigerian-groom-sham-marriage-chose-Celine-Deons-The-time-I-saw-face-jailed-12-months.html

But this didn't make front page as usual
SMH

redsun: What else can make somebody so desperate to belong to another country apart from the fact that his/her country of origin is useless?Having legal status in the UK for nigerians means rest mind for life,even if they are poor or discriminated against.It is a far cry from nigeria where only callous criminals strive at the expense of ordinary citizens.

It is game of life,he tried and failed.He will learn from it and i am sure with his experience he will live like a king in nigeria when he goes back.

is it your forebears that develope the country you are dying to go? until the igbos abandon these their avaricious greed for money,especially when it comes to demanding bride price, the crises continue.

yellowpawpaw: Nigerians always disgracing themselves everywhere! The penchant for I must make it by all means is their undoing.
In nigeria,outside nigeria,they hv that crazy notion that life is a do or die affair.
The golden question is'must he stay in uk to make it in life?'


Very bad orientation.

good morning my bros, you are wrong for Nigeria, Nigeria is a nation not all behave that way what some people are lawless in nature and as the name sound you can see where they belong in Nigeria always trying to make it by all cause.
just yesterday it was some Nigeria girls in prison today is arrange marriage just a pity for our future generation yet on born

i dont know what is wrong with some nigerians in pouring insult on those tht failed in their bid to establish themselves,personally ,i cannot wish those guys to rot in jail becos i know how i battle for job after my NYSC to no avail until i found my self in a whiteman country ,but today,i am working with my residence in my pocket,i will work and invest my money in niaja,but i cannot blame anyone who is making an attempt to establish him or her self because one cannt invest if you dont have the resources which is money,with this i think people should know how to critisize those tht fail in an attempt to establish themselves,God bless nigeria

Has anyone seen the news about the British guy caught in sham marriage in Nigeria

Now that would be newsy news, right?

lol. ds boyz r nt smilin at al. busted tins

Indians and Pakistanis are the kingpin of sham marriages in the UK, but unlike naija people, they plan theirs well for years and are hardly ever caught

far and wide i may flow....yea; get the masters, the phd out, but home is where the heart lies

aint no place like home!

Nigeria still remain one of the best places to hit it big!

only shallow mentality, purposeless and idea less people would wano ever stay long away from home.

the best place to carve a niche for your self is Nigeria.

REAL MEN DONT RUN AWAY FROM CHALLENGES like puppets, THEY THINK THEM TRU AND PROFFER SOLUTIONS. no Power? how do we solve it? how do we improve tech? how do we .......?

for all of you who have made a foreign land your home, do know that when you die, your carcass would be brought back to your tru home.

it is high time we think this country tru and improve it. one man's effort at a time. no matter how little

Idi-Amin:
Indians and Pakistanis are the kingpin of sham marriages in the UK, but unlike naija people, they plan theirs well for years and are hardly ever caught

It never ceases to amaze me how some Nigerians take advantage of the ignorance of (or lack of MB to google) of other Nigerians to just make moronic (and usually ethnic biased) statements.

Indians and Pakistanis get caught more!

retna sham wedding operation sees eight men arrested
24 July 2013 Last updated at 09:44

The wedding ceremonies were due to take place at Gretna registration office
Eight men from Pakistan and India have been arrested by immigration officers in Gretna as part of an operation targeting sham weddings.

They were apprehended moments before six ceremonies to be held on Thursday.

The Home Office said the men, aged between 27 and 40, were all in the UK illegally.

They had all travelled to Gretna from areas in England including Bradford, Manchester, Southall, Blackburn and Wolverhampton.

They included five would-be grooms and three guests who were due to attend the ceremonies at Gretna registration office.

Six of the men have been detained pending their removal from the UK, while the remaining two must report regularly to the Home Office while their pending immigration cases are concluded.

The intended brides from the Czech Republic, Romania and the UK were interviewed and released.

Anna Beattie, from the Home Office immigration enforcement team, said that anyone in the UK illegally should "take heed" of the latest operation.

"Expect to be caught by us and removed from the UK," she said.

"The Home Office is working with colleagues at registration offices throughout Scotland and receives intelligence from a wide variety of sources.

"We will not hesitate to act against those who mistakenly believe that they can abuse the immigration system."

A sham marriage or civil partnership typically occurs when a non-European national marries someone from the European Economic Area as a means of attempting to gain long-term residency and the right to work and claim benefits in the UK.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-23432385

If only this guy has my kind of character ,he wouldn't be spending his honey moon in a jail.....smh

Idi Amin: Forget that thing, evrybody dey do am, no be only Nigerians. Here in US, its the order of the day or else getting a green card will be a forever pursuit. So stop blaming Igbo boys, mumu

Thanks for been truthful.Na almost all naijas for abroad in genereal dey do am.Kini big deal sef.

@topic,too bad of and for d boys.

@Zno,e don do!ogini di!