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Insecurity due to sectarian fighting in some parts of Nigeria and the government’s decision to remove subsidy on fuel, which has had some rippled effect on prices, has compelled many Nigerians to flee to neighbouring Ghana to seek greener pastures.

The latest to join the exodus is a group of a beggars whose luck however run out, as they were arrested on arrival at the Ghanaian border town of Aflao as undesirable immigrants.
Numbering five, the beggars were put before an Aflao Circuit Court, and were ordered to be deported back home.

The court also imposed a fine of 12 Ghana Cedis (Ksh630) on each of the beggars who pleaded guilty to engaging in prohibited immigration.

The five beggars, Nura Kasum, 70, Sali Abdul Karim, 70, Abdul Hamidu, 50, Hamadu Rufia, 65, and Tasir Issaku 60, were accompanied by seven dependants.

Police prosecutor, Mr Michael Akemo, told the court that the 12 claimed they were from Kano in northern Nigeria, and had decided to travel to Ghana to escape harsh economic conditions that had engulfed Nigeria.

They claimed on their arrival that, they were to be hosted by a visually, impaired Muslim chief in Accra.

However, since they showed no means of their financial support when they enter Ghana, it was felt that they would become a burden to the Ghanaian public.

This latest group of Nigerians either looking for greener pastures or just coming to Ghana to enjoy a peaceful atmosphere has come as a shock to some Nigerians living in Ghana.
Mr Bode Amosu, a businessman told the Nation that, “all this is an indictment on a government that is supervising an oil economy that produces two million barrels a day and yet cannot manage it well for the people to have the little comfort they can get.”

Meanwhile, suspected Islamists have shot dead three poker players near a church in the latest attacks targeting Christians in northeast Nigeria, residents said on Sunday.

The killings took place late Saturday in Biu town of the northeast Nigerian state of Borno.

Two gunmen on a motorcycle shot into a crowd of Christians playing cards at an abandoned hotel near a church on the outskirts of the town, killing three and wounding seven others.

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We are not even at war yet and it is already biting in the North such that their beggars are leaving for Ghana. Northern leaders should do well to call BH to order otherwise they will lose more than others in the end.

Yeah it is biting the North and how long its been biting the ibos who are prostituting themselves in the whole of west Africa.

Are you folks this heartless?

Gayigaskia:

Yeah it is biting the North and how long its been biting the ibos who are prostituting themselves in the whole of west Africa.

Are you not "prostituting yourselves in saudi arabia?
All the Nigerian people beheaded in Saudi for carrying drugs are from mars.

Gayigaskia:

Yeah it is biting the North and how long its been biting the ibos who are prostituting themselves in the whole of west Africa.

Duh!!! There are Igbo pr/osti/tut/es as there are Yoruba, Hausa, Fulani, Kanuri, Tiv, Benin, Calabar, American, English, Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, Saudi Arabian, Libyan, Israeli etc, etc pros/ti/tu/tes. Only an untraveled village champion like you will make noise about pros/ti/tu/tes.

In fact If the only bad thing Igbos do is prostitution, then Igbos are saints.

In contrast, we have only one Boko Haram in the entire world, and that is in northern Nigeria. Oh!!!! I forgot, there are Arabian and middle eastern boko Harams too.

Where are the moderators and why aren't they doing their job??

Inaddition, we have only one money ritualist and only one kidnappers which are from South East. Remove the log in your eyes.

Nchara:

Duh!!! There are Igbo pr/osti/tut/es as there are Yoruba, Hausa, Fulani, Kanuri, Tiv, Benin, Calabar, American, English, Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, Saudi Arabian, Libyan, Israeli etc, etc pros/ti/tu/tes. Only an untraveled village champion like you will make noise about pros/ti/tu/tes.

In fact If the only bad thing Igbos do is prostitution, then Igbos are saints.

In contrast, we have only one Boko Haram in the entire world, and that is in northern Nigeria. Oh!!!! I forgot, there are Arabian and middle eastern boko Harams too.

Rhino.5dm:

Inaddition, we have only one money ritualist and only one kidnappers which are from South East. Remove the log in your eyes.

Are you sure? What about the Yoruba kidnappers who not only kidnap Yorubas but also kidnap 10s of Igbos living peacefully in Yorubaland?
Everybody in the world knows Yorubas are the most ritualistic beings to walk planet earth.

What about the motor park touts killing themselves, something found nowhere else in the world?

Do not start what you cannot finish, at least not with me, bull frog.

Have you seen the latest? Here https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-841995.0.html

Nobody wants a burden. Alas, when they are deported from Ghana they'll probably find their way to the SW to beg

BlackPikiN:


All the Nigerian people beheaded in Saudi for carrying drugs are from mars.

No they are not from mars. They are hausa/fulani/kanuri/Yoruba. Their names are on this very website. Make I find am for you?

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quit spitting on your keyboard. I tell yo, to come to PH, more than 90% of all prostitutess in the brothels are Igbo girls and this goes to all over the country. Only Igbo girls you will see in Zamfara State, even with their sharia stuff doing their "business".

Even you as a Igbo man cant go to Aba and Onitsha market without fear of being kidnapped or robbed.

How many NON Igbos have they beheaded in far east China or Asia? Show me one article that is not Igbo.

What about drugs? how many non Igbos cocain pushers have they arrested in Europe? Show 1 article and i will give you ten.
Do we need to mention South Africa? Hell NO. Your guys are all the place stuffing wraps in their anus+.

You can lie all you want but, the facts remain thesame. I always like to educate glorified empty heads on Nairaland.

Rhino.5dm:

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quit spitting on your keyboard. I tell yo, to come to PH, more than 90% of all prostitutess in the brothels are Igbo girls and this goes to all over the country. Only Igbo girls you will see in Zamfara State, even with their sharia stuff doing their "business".

Even you as a Igbo man cant go to Aba and Onitsha market without fear of being kidnapped or robbed.

How many NON Igbos have they beheaded in far east China or Asia? Show me one article that is not Igbo.

What about drugs? how many non Igbos cocain pushers have they arrested in Europe? Show 1 article and i will give you ten.
Do we need to mention South Africa? Hell NO. Your guys are all the place stuffing wraps in their anus+.

You can lie all you want but, the facts remain thesame. I always like to educate glorified empty heads on Nairaland.

Ignoramus there you have it. Let me get more

Nigerian beheaded in Saudi Arabia
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 at 9:22AM

The execution of Nigerian, Qorbi bin Mussa Adam, in Saudi Arabia has sparked serious concern with Amnesty International. According to the organization, an alarming number of foreign nationals have been executed in Saudi Arabia recently.

Qorbi bin Mussa Adam allegedly murdered a Saudi national. He was the second Nigerian to be executed in Saudi Arabia this year after another Nigerian, Jamil 'Abbas Shu'ayb, who was beheaded in May. Saudi Arabian authorities have disclosed very little information about the trial of both cases.

Another Nigerian, Suliman Olufemi was sentenced to death in 2004 and awaits execution. Olufemi's trial was held in secret and conducted in Arabic which he does not understand. He had no legal representation or any legal assistance and it is feared that he was tortured in pre-trial detention in order to force him to confess.

Qorbi bin Mussa Adam was the 51st person to be executed in Saudi Arabia this year alone, according to monitoring conducted by Amnesty International. Out of the 51 people executed in Saudi Arabia this year, 36 were Saudi Arabians and 15 were foreign nationals.

http://www./naijafeed/2009/8/11/nigerian-beheaded-in-saudi-arabia.html

AI INDEX: MDE 23/49/00
Date: 15 June 2000
amnesty international

SAUDI ARABIA
Execution of Nigerian men and women

Since March 2000 Amnesty International has published a series of reports critical of the human rights situation in Saudi Arabia. Among other serious concerns, which include torture, cruel judicial punishments and the persecution of political opponents and religious minorities, Amnesty International criticized the criminal justice system under which hundreds have been executed after summary and secret trials. Defendants have frequently been denied full and prompt access to defence lawyers and been convicted solely on the basis of confessions extracted under duress.

Saudi Arabia has one of the highest rates of capital punishment in the world. Of the 766 executions recorded by Amnesty International between 1990 and 1999, over half were of migrant workers and other foreign nationals. While a high proportion of those were Asian migrant workers mainly from Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, the Philippines and Nepal -- who comprise between 60 and 80 per cent of Saudi Arabia's workforce -- at least 72 were Nigerians, mostly convicted for drug smuggling or armed robbery. By mid-June 2000 Saudi Arabia had executed 53 people, 25 of them in May: 19 were Saudi Arabian nationals and 30 were foreign nationals, including from Nigeria, India, Pakistan, Sudan, Eritrea, Yemen, the Philippines, Ethiopia, Egypt and Iraq. Migrant workers and other foreign nationals have faced discriminatory treatment under the criminal justice system in Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia has expanded the scope of the death penalty to cover a wide range of offences, including offences without lethal consequences such as apostasy, drug dealing, sodomy and ''witchcraft''. The scores of people who are executed every year, many for non-violent crimes, are put to death after summary trials that offer them no opportunity to defend themselves and almost no protection against miscarriages of justice.

Execution is by public beheading for men and, according to reports, by firing squad or beheading for women, sometimes in public. Foreign nationals are sometimes not even aware that they have been sentenced to death and neither they nor their families are warned in advance of the date of execution. They are rarely if ever allowed to see their loved ones before they are executed.

For those in prison who fear they face execution, the psychological torment is extreme. A former prisoner released from a women's prison in 1999 described to Amnesty International the fear of a fellow woman prisoner accused of murder: ''Every time a guard opens her cell door she gets very scared [thinking] that they will come to take her out for execution.''

Relatives of those executed in many cases receive no formal notification that the execution has taken place. The governments of foreign nationals executed in Saudi Arabia are also not always informed.
The numbers of Nigerians executed between 1991 and 1999 in the figures below have been obtained from government news media in Saudi Arabia and may in fact be higher.
Nationality 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 Total Percentage of total executions
Nigerian 1 7 3 28 6 17 - 10 72 9%

On 13 May 2000 seven Nigerians were beheaded after being convicted of the armed robbery of a bank in which victims were reported to have been injured. Three other Nigerians convicted of involvement in the same armed robbery had their right hands and left feet amputated. Another Nigerian was among eight prisoners executed between 25 and 30 May 2000.

Date of execution Place of execution Name Nationality Gender Charge
1999
30.4.99 Mecca Al-Hassan Mussa Shahib Nigerian male drug smuggling
28.5.99 Riyadh Hawa Faruk Nigerian female drug smuggling
20.6.99 (not reported, possibly Riyadh or Mecca) Abdullah Ibrahim Muhammad Nigerian male armed robbery
2.7.99 (not reported) Ahmad Muhammad Kassem Nigerian male drug smuggling
16.7.99 Jeddah A'ishah Sa'adah Qasim Nigerian female drug smuggling
23.7.99 Mecca Idriss Aissa Muhammad Nigerian male drug smuggling
13.8.99 Jeddah Ibrahim Muhammad Ali Nigerian male drug smuggling
20.8.99 Jeddah (name not clear) Nigerian male drug trafficking
3.9.99 Jeddah Safira Ounbiyi Salami Nigerian female drug smuggling
10.9.99 Jeddah Juma'a Bin Salah El-Din Nigerian male drug smuggling
2000
13.5.00 Jeddah Sheik Lukman Muhammad Awl Nigerian male armed robbery
13.5.00 Jeddah Adishno Abd-al-Wasi Nigerian male armed robbery
13.5.00 Jeddah Taj-al-Din Adibayo Luwal Nigerian male armed robbery
13.5.00 Jeddah Bayu Ibrahim Bulhan Nigerian male armed robbery
13.5.00 Jeddah Niyar Mubarak Wayl Nigerian male armed robbery
13.5.00 Jeddah Abd-al-Fattah Ulsjin Amos Nigerian male armed robbery
13.5.00 Jeddah Uthman Muhammad Ibrahim Nigerian male armed robbery
--.5.00 Jeddah Al-Hajji bin Sataru bin Adimula bin Yusuf Nigerian male drugs offence

Amnesty International is also concerned at the high levels of judicial amputation carried out in Saudi Arabia, which it considers to be a form of torture as defined under the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment, to which Saudi Arabia became a state party in 1997. So far this year 23 amputations have been recorded, compared with two in the whole of 1999. Seven of these were ''cross amputations'' (amputation of the right hand and left foot). On 13 May 2000 cross amputations were carried out on Kindi Amoro Muhammad, Nurayn Aladi Amos and Abdullah Abu-Bakr Muhammad, Nigerian nationals convicted of armed robbery and assault with seven Nigerians executed on the same day (see above). In June two Nigerian men had their right hands amputated following conviction for theft: on 1 June Muhammad Othman Adam in Mecca, and on 4 June Sanussi Sani Muhammad.

The Nigerian government has expressed concerns about the executions of Nigerians on a number of occasions. In March 2000 President Obasanjo urged the Saudi Arabian authorities to advise Nigerian pilgrims to Mecca about the imposition of harsh judicial punishments in Saudi Arabia. Following the executions and amputations in Saudi Arabia in May 2000, Dubem Onyia, deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, was reported in the news media as saying that the Nigerian government would not "sit back and watch Nigerians being maltreated, killed or maimed in any part of the world." While again adjuring expatriate Nigerians to study and obey the laws of host countries, the Minister expressed concern that the Nigerian authorities had not been informed in advance of the executions or amputations and said that it was seeking further information about the fairness of the convictions.

Amnesty International continues to be concerned about human rights violations in Saudi Arabia, and urges the Nigerian government to use its prerogatives in inter-governmental organizations to seek improvement in the human rights situation in Saudi Arabia.

Olodo Rhino

There are as much drug pushers of Igbo origin as Yorubas
The prisons in the UK are filled with Yoruba drug pushers.

Saudi Arabia: Beheaded Nigerian is 51st to die this year
Posted: August 10, 2009 - 01:00

Amnesty International today again expressed concern about the execution of foreign nationals in Saudi Arabia, after news emerged of the beheading of a Nigerian man there last week.

Qorbi bin Mussa Adam, who was convicted of murdering a Saudi national, was the second Nigerian to be executed in Saudi Arabia this year. The other Nigerian, Jamil 'Abbas Shu'ayb, was beheaded in May.

In both cases, the Saudi Arabian authorities have disclosed very little information about their trials but Amnesty International said that these are likely to have been held in secret and to have been summary, as in the case of Suliman Olyfemi, another Nigerian who remains at imminent risk of execution in Saudi Arabia. He was sentenced to death in 2004.

Sulaiman Olufemi’s trial was held in secret and conducted in Arabic, which he does not understand, without adequate interpretation facilities. He had no legal representation or any legal assistance. It is feared that he was tortured while held incommunicado in pre-trial detention to force him to “confess”.

Qorbi bin Mussa Adam was the 51st person to be executed in Saudi Arabia this year, according to Amnesty International’s monitoring. As in previous years, the figures reflect a disproportionately high rate of executions of Africans and Asians. Of the 51 people executed so far this year, 36 were Saudi Arabians, out of a population of some 21 million, while 15 executions were of foreign nationals residing in Saudi Arabia, who number approximately six million.

In 2008, the Saudi Arabian government executed, on average, more than two people a week. Almost half of them were foreign nationals from developing countries, including Nigeria.

The government of Saudi Arabia uses the death penalty for a wide range of offences, including offences which are ill-defined or do not have lethal consequences.

The process by which the death penalty is imposed and carried out is harsh, largely secretive and grossly unfair.

Executions in Saudi Arabia are generally held in public, and are in some cases followed by crucifixion of the bodies.

Saudi Arabian judges have wide discretion and can hand down death sentences for vaguely-worded and non-violent offences. Some migrant workers are reported to have even been unaware that they had been sentenced to death until the very morning of their execution.

The Saudi Arabian government's continuing high use of the death penalty runs counter to the growing international trend towards abolition and the UN General Assembly's adoption in 2007 and 2008 of resolutions calling for a worldwide moratorium on executions.

According to Amnesty International, 139 countries in the world have abolished the death penalty in law or practice.

Amnesty International called on the Saudi Arabian government to establish an immediate moratorium on executions and to commute all outstanding death sentences as a first step towards abolition.

The death penalty is the ultimate denial of human rights, said Amnesty International. It is the premeditated and cold-blooded killing of a human being by the state in the name of justice. It violates the right to life as proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment.

Notes to editors regarding the death penalty in Nigeria:

- Approximately 735 prisoners are on death row in Nigeria.

- Until recently, it had been widely assumed that no executions had taken place since 2002; however, Amnesty International and Nigerian NGOs uncovered evidence of at least seven executions in 2006. It is feared that more may have taken place.

- In February 2009, at the HRC, Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs stated that “Nigeria continues to exercise a self-imposed moratorium [on the death penalty].”

- In Nigeria, two expert groups set up by former president Obasanjo – the National Study Group on Death Penalty (2004) and the Presidential Commission on Reform of the Administration of Justice (2007) – recommended a moratorium on executions

http://saharareporters.com/report/saudi-arabia-beheaded-nigerian-51st-die-year

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3 Nigerians beheaded in Saudi Arabia for murder
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Omar Mohammed Adamon Sunday beheaded three Nigerians accused of murdering and robbing a fellow citizen, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency.

Mohammed Ismail, Abdulqudus Adam and Mohammed Kabir Ali broke into the house of Omar Mohammed Adam where “they beat him and his wife, tied them down and strangled Omar to death,” said the statement.

Then they burgled their compatriot’s home, it added.

The beheadings in the western Red Sea city of Jeddah brings the number of executions in the ultra-conservative kingdom this year to 31, according to an AFP tally based on official and human rights group reports.

On June 10, London-based watchdog Amnesty International called on Saudi Arabia to stop applying the death penalty, saying there had been a significant rise in the number of executions in the previous six weeks.

It said 15 people were executed in May alone.

In 2009, the number of executions reached 67, compared to 102 in 2008.

Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Saudi Arabia’s strict interpretation of Islamic shari’ah law.

Rhino,

If you do a little googling you will see how many Yorubas are wanted for crime in the USA. Nairaland has a library of those. Oloshi

http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2011/07/07/nigerian-with-128-identities-arrested-by-london-police/

Yoruba man with 128 identities in the UK

Nigerian With 128 Identities Arrested By London Police print

A Nigerian, David Peters, 30, who has defrauded banks to the tune of £636,000 by using 128 different identity cards was arrested by the police in London yesterday.

David Peters

Police investigation revealed that Daniel Peters had in a series of scams duped banks, mortgage lenders and government agencies, disguising with different identities.

The police told a court in London yesterday that David Peters obtained 74 fake licences after applying for them at a string of rural post offices.

The Nigerian also stole £168,575 (N45 million) in benefits from three London councils by claiming to be both tenant and landlord at the same address.

According to the Sun of London newspaper and the Daily Mail also published in London, Peters also got £250,000 (N62.5 million) mortgage for a house in Edgware, North London and another mortgage on a flat in Essex worth £157,495 (N39 million) and also took more than £60,000 (N15 million) from Lloyds TSB in series.

The London police claimed that the Nigerian committed these frauds since 2002 until December last year when they nabbed him.

Peters, also named Oluseyi Jeremiah Adebayo on court documents admitted 29 of the charges of fraud and being in possession of false identification documents.

Police detective Inspector Richard Fisher of City of London said after the hearing: “This is the biggest case of identity theft we have ever investigated. The sheer number of the fake identities we discovered are evidence of how Peters was a full time fraudster funding a life of excess at the expense of others.”

Police investigation revealed that Peters was also known as Jerry Alfred Zaandam, Goke Jerry Adeyimi, David Johnson Brown, Kevin Michael Peters, John Donald Nelson, Desmond Brown Jackson, etc.

The police said they have brought an end to Peters day of deceit and warned others who like to act as someone they are not as a means to commit crime.

He is expected to be sentenced tomorrow.

http://odili.net/news/source/2012/jan/7/827.html

Dreaded cultists invade major towns in Ogun

by Ademola Olonilua

There is an indication that residents of major towns in Ogun State, such as Ijebu-Ode, Ago-Iwoye and Sagamu, no longer sleep with both eyes shut as a result of the activities of members of secret cults.


Ogun CP, Nicholas Nkemdeme

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CRIME DIGEST investigations show that most natives of these towns live in constant dread of these cultists, whose activities assumed an alarming dimension in 2011 and resulted in the deaths of innocent and law-abiding citizens.

During Christmas, a palpable atmosphere overhung parts of Ijebu-Ode, particularly in Alapo, Ita-Itebo, Ondo, and Imoru roads, believed to be strongholds of cultists and scenes of bloody confrontation between rival gangs in the past. And frightened residents reacted nervously to the sounds of fire crackers, often mistaking them for loud reports of gunfire.

A large concentration of the hoodlums, most of who dropped out from tertiary institutions in Ogun and were allegedly recruited by politicians during the last general elections to work for them as political thugs, in Ijebu-Ode and Sagamu, has engendered a deep feeling of insecurity among the residents of those towns.

The same thugs have taken to extorting money from commercial transport operators and harassing other law-abiding people everywhere in the state. These cultists are known to keep the scores or count of the people they have killed.

A highly-placed security official in the state on Wednesday confirmed the surge in the activities of cultists.

He said, "We have in our custody a 19- year-old leader of a secret cult. This is to tell you how bad the situation has become. Recently, a cultist walked up to a young woman he was trying to woo.

"The youth must have said something that provoked the young lady to anger. And she slapped him. The boy went to call for reinforcement. When he returned, he did not meet the girl. So, he picked up two of her friends.

"These boys publicly humiliated these girls by stripping them Unclad. As if that wasn't enough, some of the boys inserted lighted cigarettes in the private parts of the girls. They did this in the full view of the public. We have arrested some of those boys, but the fact remains that they need to be checked.

"Most of the young men we arrest for being in possession of small arms are usually members of secret cults. With the support of educational institutions and parents, I am sure we would be able to put a stop to cultism in the state."

CRIME DIGEST gathered that membership of these cults groups is no longer exclusive to students of tertiary institutions in the state, but open to just anybody that is willing to be committed to the groups.

A commercial motorcycle operator in Ijagun area of the state, known as Tiepo, told our correspondent that the only pre-requisite for admission into some of the secret cults in Ogun is courage.

Tiepo said, "Unlike the past, you do not need to be an undergraduate to join a scret cult. All you need is raw courage."

He said that membership of the cults was open to taxi drivers, okada riders, ticketing officers, artisans, even street urchins.

Tiepo said the cultists usually hired the services of okada riders whenever they were on clandestine missions. Some of the motorcyclists actually joined the cults out of fear or ignorance.

He said, "On two occasions, I was forced to take some of them to their meetings. This people are terrible. During the tenure of former Governor Gbenga Daniel, a young man would mount a motorcycle with his gun on his lap and nobody would stop him.

"This made those of us that are okada operators to be wary of the kind of passengers we carry. We hardly pick up two passengers at a time and we avoid anyone carrying a bag. It has affected our business in the past.

"One day, I picked up a young man, who looked harmless to me until I saw his gun. I was very frightened and I decided not to carry him again, but he cajoled me. I had no choice but to obey him.

"Some of my colleagues were not as lucky; they got their own motorcycles snatched. Some even said they witnessed murders but were afraid to report the cases for fear of their life."

But Tiepo noted that most of the cultists and those behind criminal activities in the areas mentioned were not indigenes of Ogun State.

"Most of these people are not from Ogun. They come from Lagos and Oyo states. When they commit crimes and they are declared wanted by the police, they run to Ogun and hide till the heat cools off," he said.

A youth, who had renounced his membership of an unnamed secret cult, said majority of the notorious cultists used to converge on Olabisi Onabanjo University in Ago-Iwoye until the school shut for a long while.

As a result of the closure of the OOU, the cultists moved to Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun, Ijebu-Ode. The former cultist described a top ranking member of staff of the institution as a patron of the secret cult who helped to coordinate most of their activities.

Another source at TASUED confirmed this and said cultism was rampant in the university until the authorities decided to clamp down on the activities of cultists in 2010. As a result, most of the cultists fled to the institution's College of Education in Omu.

The source said, "Where do these students obtain sophisticated weapons? They are given to them by politicians. They are on the payroll of some politicians in the state.

"When they are done, they dump these students. The management's re-organisation drove these boys out. The vice-chancellor has zero tolerance for cultism.

"Suspected cultists are either rusticated or suspended, depending on the gravity of their offence. The measure adopted by the Senate, which is supporting the institution's security, is yielding dividends. The cultists still exist on campus, but they have gone underground now."

A student of OOU, who lives on Mini-Campus Road, says clashes between rival cult groups are still common in Ago-Iwoye.

He says, "Cultists still constitute a nuisance to other law-abiding citizens and fellow students here. They target rival cult groups and in the process, cause confusion in the town.

"They rarely disturb on campus. Most of their killings and clashes take place outside the university, though some of the cultists hide on campus. It is worse in Ijebu-Igbo because that is the base of the Eiye Confraternity. About 20 per cent of the cultists in Ogun State live in Ago-Iwoye. They include the Buccaneers, Eiye, Mafia, Pirates and ."

The spokesman for the Ogun State Police Command, Mr. Muyiwa Adejobi, told our correspondent that the police were aware of the surge in the activities of secret cults in the state. He said, "But this case is peculiar to Sagamu and Ijebu-Ode. Most of the cultists in Sagamu are not undergraduates. When they commit crime, they run to their base.

"In the past, only university students were regarded as cultists. It is no longer so. However, most of the cultists in Ijebu-Ode are students. Cultists are more in Ijebu-Ode because there are many schools there.

"Cultism is not like armed robbery or murder. So, one has to be careful about dealing with it. We are tackling the issue and we are working closely with the tertiary institutions in the state. We are also working with traditional rulers to help in curbing the menace. We need the help and support of parents, schools and lecturers."

When it comes to crime of all sorts Igbos are babies compared to Yorubas

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Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota: 11 Nigerians face federal charges for credit card scam

BOB VON STERNBERG

Eleven people have been charged in federal court in the Twin Cities with fraud for a counterfeit credit card scam that allegedly netted them more than $650,000.


The defendants were charged last week with using the bogus cards to withdraw the cash from more than 170 automatic teller machines in the metro area.

According to the criminal complaint filed last week in U.S. District Court, the defendants obtained personal information about customers of Capital One Bank from an online source based in the Ukraine.

With the stolen information in hand, the defendants allegedly manufactured the counterfeit cards with that information. They were then able to obtain new personal ID numbers from the bank which allowed them to withdraw $652,205 from the teller machines.

According to the complaint, some of the stolen money was converted into cashier checks and used to purchase vehicle parts or vehicles with salvage titles; the vehicles were then shipped to Nigeria, and sold at inflated prices.

Some of the defendants allegedly recruited Nigerian residents in Minneapolis to buy vehicles at auto auctions, giving them cash to make the purchases.

According to a U.S. Secret Service affidavit, one of the defendants bragged about how he could not "get caught conducting his illegal activity" because he was "very good at covering his tracks."

Charged with one count of bank fraud and one count of access device fraud are Adekunle Kayode Ayeni, 27, Yewande Mariam Sholebo, unknown age, Adewale Alba Alli, unknown age, Olayemi Lateef Banjoko, unknown age, Idowu Ayinla Sadiq, unknown age, Abiodun Banjoko, unknown age, and Oyetoyin Oseni Atobatele, unknown age, all of Fridley; along with Bashiru Adelumola Fowoshere, 36, and Titilayo Abidewi Fowoshere, unknown age, both of Ramsey; Oriyomi Enitan Olowosago, unknown age, Brooklyn Park; and Ajibola Alli Fowoshere, 34, address unknown.

Eight of the 11 were arrested last Friday, when they also made their initial court appearance. Three remain at large.

Nigerian Samuel Shoyeju, British Immigration Officer, Jailed For Visa Fraud in UK
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Scores of immigrants who were fraudulently issued with visas by a rogue UK Border Agency official remain at large almost four years later, a court has heard.

Nigerian Samuel Shoyeju, an immigration officer, was today jailed for seven years for falsely granting indefinite leave to remain to 44 non-EU residents who were not entitled to stay in the country.

Only 14 of the false letters that he issued have been recovered, meaning most of the recipients have not been identified.

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.

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.

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In all you have posted above, why dont you show us china and europe did i argue about the North taking leads in Saudi? It is natural for them to have crimnals doing things over ther, with rate of over 200 000 visits per year! So, dont me give that crap. You thrive in ethnic bigotry and am doing you favour to let you display your skills.

You are very daft! More than i initially, thought of. . . Do Igbos visit Saudi? Dimwits !!

From what I know it is safe to conclude that

majority of Nigerians in prison in the UK and USA are Yorubas (awon credit card and visa scam boys)
Majority in China and Asia are Igbos but Yorubas are increasingly involved now
Majority in the midle East are northern muslims.

No ethnic group in Nigeria can condemn another for crime. We are all involved equally.

Those Yoruba actors and actresses arrested for drugs are from Jupiter?

A Yoruba boy arrested in Malaysia for runs. That is an islamic country so they will probably kill him (Video)

http://afrocosmopolitan.com/2012/01/05/caught-on-video-nigerian-con-men-419-in-malaysia/

Nchara:

From what I know it is safe to conclude that

majority of Nigerians in prison in the UK and USA are Yorubas (awon credit card and visa scam boys)

UK yes. Parts of the US where Yoruba are more, yes. But California and Texas, mostly Igbos

Rhinoceros:

Next time you try me, I will chew you raw. Monkey from Ijebu Ijesha.

ekt_bear:

UK yes. Parts of the US where Yoruba are more, yes. But California and Texas, mostly Igbos

Could be true but in Asia too Yorubas have joined and their numbers are growing.
Overall, more Yorubas in US prisons, one even for terrorism