horsepower101: Owerri is having a silent revolution in Real estate and overall city development. Kudos to those who are investing in that city. In 10 years time, it will be a destination for international tourists.
Lets continue to invest back home. Aku must ruo ulo.
hope most of those houses are not owned by people in government..that is my only worry there
Xander85: It’s about time the Catholic Church brings a truly world-class university to the south-east! They’ve been in Onitsha for more than a hundred years, and are arguably the richest church in the world, so nothing but the best is expected of them!
Anyone know if Madonna University is owned by the church?
is there any world renowned university run by the catholic church?
Nine Nigerians Arrested In US For $3.5m Fraud The suspects are Oluwaseun Adelekan a.k.a. Sean Adelekan, Olalekan Daramola, Solomon Aburekhanlen, Gbenga Oyeneyin, Abiola Olajumoke, Temitope Omotayo, Bryan Eadie, Albert Lucas and Ademola Adebogun.
BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORKAPR 27, 2019
Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Nine Nigerians have been arrested in the United States of America for defrauding businesses and individuals of more than $3.5million.
This was made known by Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James C. Spero, Homeland Security Investigations (HIS) Special Agent-in-Charge of the Tampa, Florida, Field Office of US, in an announcement made on Thursday.
The suspects allegedly posed as oil workers in Russia.
Further investigations showed that each of the defendants possesses three different emails used in defrauding their victims.
The suspects are Oluwaseun Adelekan a.k.a. Sean Adelekan, Olalekan Daramola, Solomon Aburekhanlen, Gbenga Oyeneyin, Abiola Olajumoke, Temitope Omotayo, Bryan Eadie, Albert Lucas and Ademola Adebogun.
Each of the suspects faces a maximum potential sentence of 20 years in prison.
U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said: “As alleged, these defendants deployed three different email schemes to defraud their victims.
“The common denominator in all three schemes was the defendants’ alleged fleecing of their victims through fictitious online identities.
“The schemes allegedly earned the defendants $3.5 million – and also arrests on federal felony charges.”
HSI Special Agent-in-Charge James C. Spero said: “A transnational criminal organisation allegedly conducting illicit domestic and international wire fraud has been dismantled thanks to the hard work of HSI Tampa and Special Agents from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.
“This case illustrates the unique investigative authority and international reach of HSI.”
As alleged in their indictment, the defendants participated in a scheme to defraud businesses and individuals through several categories of false and misleading representations, including but not limited to:
"Sending victims email messages that appeared to be, but were not, from legitimate business counterparties that included instructions to the victims to wire payment to those seemingly legitimate business counterparties into bank accounts that were actually under the control of, and/or maintained by, Adelekan, Daramola, Aburekhanlen, Oyeneyin, Olajumoke, Omotayo, Eadie, Lucas, and Adebogun (the “Business Email Compromise Scam”);
"Sending email messages and text messages to at least one victim offering an opportunity to invest in oil stored in Russian oil tank farms conditioned on that victim wiring upfront payments into bank accounts purportedly affiliated with the purported oil investment but actually opened by and under the control of Aburekhanlen, Olajumoke, and Oyeneyin (the “Russian Oil Scam”); and
"Sending email messages and text messages to at least one victim from an individual (or individuals) purporting to be a female with romantic intentions toward the victim requesting, further to establishing a romantic relationship, the wiring of payment into a bank account under the control of Omotayo (the “Romance Scam”).
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FirstCounsel: These yahoo hoy's no get sense at all. I'm familiar with that Laderin area of Abeokuta. Dem just pack them s selves full for the Estate. 20 year olds cruising on Venza etc making it obvious they are into "runs"... this EFCC raid was just a question of time.they had it coming...
cjrane: Imolites should mobilize and stop Rochas from looting the state as he is doing. This is not the time for "I don't care" attitude.
Also, the new Governor must probe the current criminal regime and impound all the illegal assets acquired through looting of state funds.
Not to mention that SOME not ALL of those useless statues erected for political reason must go down.
rochas actually has a poverty mentality ..I wish I can post some videos about this his stripping bare of equipment his govt bought for the state..such a low thinking human being
i hope we all know that for a winner to be declared it isn't just simple majority vote in which ihedioha is leading now but also winning 25% of 2/3 of the 27 lgas in imo state..meaning a winner has to win at least 25% of votes in 18 local government areas.
Abagworo: Man uploads raw video of journey into his village in rural parts of Imo State. This is for those who don't travel home but rely on what they are told.
MyGeneration: Some idiot opened like 5 accounts and started commenting and quoting and replying his own self. WAsting his own time mb and money. Foolishness or can I say iberibe is real
my sadness if to those replying him..i mean his writing pattern is quite obvious
‘Most Nigerian cities don’t have master plan’ By Malikatu Umar Shuaibu | Published Date Feb 18, 2019 3:30 AM
The Nigerian Institute of Town Planners (NITP) has said that most cities in Nigeria do not have a master plan and those that have are yet to take steps to implement them.
President of the institute, Lekwa Ezutah, made this known in Abuja at a media briefing recently.
According to him, “Only Abuja and Owerri have a comprehensive master plans that have been fully implemented. Some cities have master plan but they haven’t been implemented or reviewed.”
Ezutah also lamented the inability of the Federal Government to implement the requirements of the Urban and Regional Planning Law.
“Since 1992, the Urban and Regional Planning Law was set up and provides for an Urban and Regional Planning Commission at the federal level, planning boards at the state level and planning authorities at the local government. But till date, government has not implemented the law, 27 years after.
“This is why the focus of the institute under my leadership is creating awareness to policy makers and the general public on the importance of town planning at all levels to ensure that professionals are engaged at all levels to reduce the cases of building collapse and irregular physical planning,” he said.
Ezutah also reiterated the institute’s commitment in ensuring that development control takes center stage in Nigeria, lamenting that it has been lacking in the country for so many years.
dont know about owerri master plan being fully implemented but this sounds good though
MyGeneration: Wow and imo has not started yet, Since Abia state has failed to make do of its proximity to ph, we imolites should target greater port harcourt city and key into its development, since the new greater port harcourt city is closer to Imo while the old port harcourt city is closer to Aba. I want to see imo develop, I want to see our economy grow, jobs created, employment generated.
My only question I keep on asking is why is Apc bent on picking hope uzodinma against Uche nwosu. It's not about godfatherism but something is fishy that no one has explained to me, is it from the rochas side this fish is coming from or oshiomoles side
sage: They voted out their govt in 2015[b] only to be rigged out of their popular will[/b]. They will vote them out again next month. Only difference this time is if they can stop the rigging
yeah i remember olisa metuh barging into inec umuahia debacle i shook my head at that incident
sonature1: Keep quiet Chike 0kafor of APC represents 0kigwe constituency in the House of Representatives. Yes, he will win. In Imo State, we don't vote for parties; we vote for the candidates
Ozibe: I wished they extended the road widening down to akabo, Amawozuzu, Amalim and attah. The kind of tracffic on that road due to its narrow finalization done by ohakim, this Xmas was hell. Especially starting from orji. It was terrible. Going from orji to Amawozuzu on a free road won’t take more than 10 to 15mins but this Xmas on some days were over 6hrs. It was worse on new year day. I almost cried. I took off from the mall around 6 but I got home at iho few minutes to 12.
although i agree with you on the dualization up to attah but i disagree that the dualization is the major issue of the traffic you encountered..it is mostly the heavy influx of people in to imo for the yuletide(owerri umuahia federal highway also experienced such with the peak being the ahiara junction logjam) and most importantly not enough detour roads off that axis of owerri okigwe highway
it will pretty ironic if after everything palm trees are not planted in an organized way within this campus or any tree at all..the fallow open spaces isnt just it
i appreciate the widening of orji/okigwe and mbari roads..what has mbari center being turned to?last i remember it became a joint..however the medians on those roads are poor quality as usual