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vickyfrancis1:
Na only poverty still dy keep me for this country...if I see the least 2-4m...Nwanne mu wa agbawa door ooo....

EmmaJnr1:
guys, ladies go and learn how to swim

Newphiligeek123:
A 37-year-old Nigerian woman, Portia Odufuwa was taken into custody on Monday after she fired several rounds inside Dallas Love Field Airport in Texas and was shot and injured by a police officer, the authorities said.

The woman was dropped off at the airport just before 11 a.m. and appeared to change her clothes in a restroom before emerging and opening fire inside the airport, Chief Eddie Garcia of the Dallas Police Department said at a news conference on Monday afternoon.
A Dallas police officer inside the airport shot her, striking her “in the lower extremities,” and she was arrested and taken to a hospital, Chief Garcia said. Her condition was not immediately clear on Monday afternoon.

It was unclear whom or what the woman was aiming at when she fired. Chief Garcia said that the officer fired several rounds at her after she began shooting.

The Police Department said that she had fired a weapon several times in a ticket counter area of the airport.

No other injuries were reported, the police said, but the shooting sent travelers scrambling for cover and delayed several flights.
Before the airport shooting, Odufuwa had racked up a string of arrests for arson, robbery, criminal trespass and false reporting across North Texas.

In April 2021, she was accused of pulling the fire alarm at a Mesquite hotel after staffers refused to extend her stay. When police asked for her address, she allegedly gave that of musician Chris Brown’s mansion.

In October 2019, Odufuwa allegedly set a house on fire, but the Dallas County District Attorney’s office declined to press charges due to a lack of scientific evidence. After telling police she was “responsible for the fire,” she said she had set the blaze because “I am God’s prophet,” according to an arrest affidavit sighted by Afrotimes Newspaper.

She also allegedly told officers that she wouldn’t say anything else until she talked to Chris Brown, who she claimed as her husband.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/AfrotimesNewspaper/photos/a.119381757440035/140810471963830/
Afrotimes Newspaper

pyyxxaro:
MAY D when be upcoming artist

babzo:
Worst case they will be given a fine.

Newphiligeek123:
• The businessmen, Anslem Oshionebo and Opeyemi Odeyale and Aleoghena Okhumale pleaded guilty to the charges brought against them by the US Department of Justice.

• Popular Nigerian music star May D was the firm’s brand ambassador

• The fintech firm they operated, Ping Express US LLC, facilitated the remittance of $160 million to Nigeria.

• Some of the funds are said to be proceeds of romance scams


Three Nigerian businessmen – Anslem Oshionebo, Opeyemi Odeyale and Aleoghena Okhumale – have been convicted for money laundering in the United States.

Their fate was sealed after Ping Express U.S. LLC pleaded guilty to failure to maintain an effective anti-money laundering program.

In 2017, the company had announced the signing of Nigerian musical star Akinmayokun Awodumila, popularly known as MayD as a brand ambassador to help preach its services to Africans in diaspora.

In court documents sited by the Afrotimes Newspapers, the Texas company, which transferred millions of dollars from America to Africa, admitted that it failed to play by the rules.Though the firm was licensed to transmit money, it had no approval to conduct currency exchange.

Ping Express charged U.S. customers a fee to remit money to beneficiaries in Nigeria and other countries in the continent.

The company confessed to allowing over 1,500 customers to violate the laws. One customer remitted $80,000 in one single month, more than 17 times the limit.

Ping Express transmitted more than $167million outside America, including $160million to Nigeria, in less than three years.
The firm admitted it failed to request sufficient details about the sources or purposes of the funds involved in the transactions, or the customers.

A customer, Collins Orogun acknowledged accepting a fee in exchange for transferring money for “romance scam” fraudsters and other criminals.

Afrotimes learned that Orogun received at least $1.3million, cashier’s checks, wires into U.S. bank accounts and moved more than $1million to Africa through Ping. The defendant faces up to 20 years in federal prison; his sentencing is set for January 23, 2023.

Ping CEO Oshionebo and Ping COO Odeyale were sentenced to 27 months in prison; IT/Business Development Manager Okhumale got a 42 months jail term.

The company now faces five years of probation and a fine of up to $500,000; sentencing has been set for December 19, 2022.

Christopher Miller, Acting Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Dallas said agents and forensic accountants work to eradicate bulk cash smuggling.

“Our investigative reach provides access to a wide range of financial networks allowing HSI to disrupt any criminal organization attempting to exploit global trade”, Miller noted.

HSI Dallas Field Office conducted the probe in collaboration with the Texas Department of Banking. Assistant U.S. Attorney John de la Garza is the prosecutor.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/AfrotimesNewspaper/photos/a.119381757440035/138145065563704/
Afrotimes Newspaper

thebosstrevor1:
Now i can see why virtual dollar card by flutterwaves partner was discontinued

Newphiligeek123:
An angry mob has attacked the Lisburn, Northern Ireland home of Nigerian husband and wife Osarobo “John” Izekor, 36, and 29-year old Precious Izekor - just hours after they were found guilty of their sickening crimes.

Windows at the front and back of the Ashmount Gardens property were smashed and the couple, who held a Nigerian national as their personal slave, were forced to flee with their three children in the early hours of the morning.

Neighbours described how they packed up their car with as many personal belongings they could manage and drove off under the watchful eye of PSNI officers who attended the scene.

“No one really knows who did it because it was in the middle of the night and it happened so quick but people wanted them out, that’s for sure. “What they did to that poor woman was a disgrace and cruel. It was no surprise that the home was attacked when people realised who they were and what crime they had committed,” one neighbour said.

“It’s a disgrace that they only got two years suspended considering what they did, is that what you call justice? “When I heard the windows being smashed I knew who it was. All the neighbours came out and we watched them pack up and leave,” she said to Afrotimes News.

The couple kept themselves to themselves and never allowed their children to play on the street with other kids. “They never annoyed anyone, very quiet, you would never have really seen them. The first we all knew about them was when we read it in the paper and seen them on the TV.

"It was a matter of time before something happened. You can’t get away with that type of thing here. Any wonder they kept their heads down but it all came out in the end, you can’t hide something like that no matter how hard you try,” another neighbour said.

The couple were forced from their home last week and have since declared themselves as homeless.

Conviction

They were both handed a two-year prison sentence, which was suspended for two years, by Judge Richard Greene QC who ordered them to pay their victim £10,000 in compensation.

Last week’s sentencing at Belfast Crown Court marked one of the first cases brought under the Human Trafficking and Exploitation Act (NI) 2015.

The pair admitted that on dates between September 1, 2016 and September 30, 2017 they ‘required another person to perform forced or compulsory labour’.

While the victim was forced to carry out domestic duties, a majority of the criminality by the Izekors was unpaid childcare in their then Castlereagh Place home in Belfast.

As he sentenced the couple, Judge Greene said that whilst it was accepted the Izekors did not physically ill-treat the women they kept as a domestic slave, they gained financially by not having to pay childcare costs while they worked.

The victim – who is now 33 – arrived in Northern Ireland in 2011 and worked as a nanny for John Izekor’s sister for a five-year period.

When John Izekor’s sister returned to Nigeria in the Autumn of 2016, the woman moved into Castlereagh Place with John and Precious. During this period, she was kept ignorant of her immigration status and was prevented from having access to her passport and paperwork.

While working for the Izekors, the woman had her own room and was given food and clothes but was not paid any money, while a small sum was sent to her family in Nigeria.

When she finally raised the issue of her documents with Precious Izekor, an argument ensued. A few days later, she left the Izekors and went to stay with a friend, who–concerned for the woman–felt she was being exploited and accompanied her to the Home Office.

An investigation was launched which resulted in the involvement of the PSNI and the arrests of John and Precious Izekor, who both admitted the offence.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/AfrotimesNewspaper/photos/pcb.135914155786795/135913869120157/

Ethanuella:
That's what I've been telling people about the current "UK rush". The UK economy is heavily tax reliant hence the open arms to foreign students, especially with the introduction of the 2 year postgraduate study visa.

I wouldn't be surprised if in the coming years, a policy that wouldn't be favourable to those that japaed through the study route will be enacted.

But what do I know? Everyone is trying to escape from the hell that Buhari has made Nigeria become.

Anything for sanity, security, and good income Abeg.

VeeVeeMyLuv:
Ms Parveen's sternum but, after using the wrong needle, he missed the bone and pierced her pericardium, the sac containing the heart. As a result, he caused massive internal bleeding.


Ms Parveen lost consciousness as soon as the needle was inserted, causing her husband to flee the room shouting: "He killed her. I told him to stop three times and he did not listen."