₦airaland Forum

mrvitalis:
Lmaooo people come to Lagos for Port and airports both where federal projects... The rest are derivatives of those tho

South East is the online region that you can't find a single federal project or Institution that I can't find anywhere else

But yet your brothers are all over South East

A Nigerian legal practitioner, Okechukwu Josiah Odunna, appeared in a Federal Court in Miami, Florida where he is accused of playing a key role in a fraud scheme in which he fraudulently obtained loans in connection with the fraudulent purchases of approximately 20 residential properties in Florida.

The Justice Department in a press statement announced on Friday, March 7, 2025, said the plot resulted in the loss of about $8 million to U.S. financial institutions.

Odunna, 60, a resident of Abuja, faces charges of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud affecting a financial institution.

Odunna was arrested on Sept. 24, 2024, by Nigerian authorities pursuant to a U.S. extradition request.

Nigerian authorities extradited Odunna to the Southern District of Florida on March 6, after he waived extradition.

He has remained incarcerated since his arrest. Odunna is scheduled to appear at his pretrial detention and arraignment hearings on March 11 before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jonathan Goodman.

According to the indictment, between December 2005 and approximately May 2008, Odunna and his co-conspirators devised a scheme to defraud and to obtain money by making false representations and material omissions to U.S. banking institutions.

As part of the scheme, Odunna and his co-conspirators would, among other things: submit false and fraudulent loan applications and documents to financial institutions relating to purchases of residential properties, resulting in lenders loaning out more money than they otherwise would.

These false statements to the lenders included false names of the persons who would be borrowing the money to purchase the properties, falsely inflated sale prices that were much higher than the true prices and false details regarding the receipt and disbursement of funds in connection with the purchases of the properties.

Odunna, who was a licensed attorney at the time, was also one of the directors of Direct Title and Escrow Services, Inc. (DTES).

Odunna was the settlement agent in approximately 20 fraudulent closings of property purchases.

To disguise the fraud, Odunna and his co-conspirators provided sellers and lenders with two different settlement statements, which included false information and omitted information regarding the sale price, the identity of the purchaser, and the receipt and the disbursement of funds.

Odunna’s co-conspirators, charged in the same indictment, included Karl Oreste, Marie Lucie Tondreau and Kelly Augustin. Oreste pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 100 months in prison.

Tondreau, who was the former Mayor of North Miami, was convicted at trial. She was sentenced to 65 months in prison. Augustin remains a fugitive.

If convicted, Odunna faces up to 30 years in prison on the conspiracy to commit wire fraud affecting a financial institution charge and up to 30 years in prison on the wire fraud affecting a financial institution charge.

Each count also carries the possibility of a fine and supervised release upon completion of any prison sentence. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

U.S. Attorney Hayden P. O’Byrne for the Southern District of Florida, Acting Special Agent in Charge Brett Skiles of the FBI Miami Field Office, and Commissioner Russell C. Weigel, III, of the Florida Office of Financial Regulation (OFR), made the announcement.

The FBI Miami and OFR are investigating the case. The Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs provided significant assistance in securing the arrest and extradition of Odunna.

The United States also thanks the FBI International Operations Division, Africa Unit Legal Attaché Office, Abuja, Nigeria, Ministry of Justice, Central Authority Unit, Nigeria, and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Nigeria for their valuable assistance.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Ana Maria Martinez is prosecuting the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Daren Grove is handling asset forfeiture.

Odunna was a Deputy Director, Legal at the National Lottery Regulatory Commission in Abuja, for 6 years.

MXrep:
Zenith still beat wema and daily Sun beat Tribune. Meanwhile we rule airlines . We do not retain wealth in one family. Before each business whines down it has created many others. Watch out for signature bank which is an offshoot of diamond Bank in the next generation

Jerrymanta:
LMFAO imagine limiting your entire grok search to Yoruba vs Igbo just to score lame ethnic points, isn't that mental illness? While at it while not asking grok the "dirtiest tribe in Nigeria" "the tribe that excels the most in forgery and fraud" or "why there's a prepoderance of skull mining in South West Nigeria" etc.

Just for the record..Grok is an X automated machine and it picks its information from X algorithms..


This ronu idiots have the lowest spectrum of self esteem walahi

Slytiger:
Grok to obidients

SouthSouth1914:
And it is planned, no loitering, dirtbags, mad men roaming the street. Not flood prone, or buildings collapsing at will. Yet they don’t brag

Adblg0610:
When a slave stays too long, he begins to challenge his master. The problem is that Yorubas are too liberal, that is why they claim that Lagos is no man’s land.
Is Abuja, Kaduna or Kano not cosmopolitan? Don’t they have Ohanaeze chapters in those states ? Why don’t they challenge the governments of those states?
It’s a ploy to spread the igbo language in order to eventually take over Lagos.

LegendHero:
I no even know what to say. There are some news you read, that you just boil inside you.

It’s not their fault. If there are no consequence for action taken, they will continue to FA.

EmeeNaka:
Lagos state government is trying to destroy the fabrics of unity. Why would Lagos state government think only Yoruba language is important in a multicultural state in Lagos? Igbos have strong presence in Lagos and has continued to contribute strongly to Lagos state economy.
Igbo language must be taught in Lagos state schools, if there are teachers and interested students.

Ashawoman82:
bro Im am igbo but I'm just tired, can't even defend it any more, especially women from anambra.. I ask myself every time, y always our women..

Segzy19:
They hate Nigerians more.
I have lived in SA before. So I know

AfricanA31:
What do you mean? Have they been calling for fake Biafra? Or you would prefer they leave their land just because the military created states out of their land?

What is your interest in their space?

gratiaeo:
Awka is better than Osu, Ekiti, Ogun, Oyo and Ondo state capitals

AfricanA31:
The good thing about this is that they have been calling for their separate country, reason other region are scared of their leaving is what beats the mind most

A girl named Chidera, 12, has been rescued after she suffered multiple extreme bruises and burns on her body.


According to reports, she suffered severe abuse at the hands of her stepmother whom she lived with at Faith Odunaike Street, Ipaja, Lagos State.


Neighbours who witnessed Chidera's plight revealed that her mother is de@d, leaving her at the mercy of her stepmother.


Recently, the stepmother allegedly locked her at home alone and travelled.


Neighbours who feared for her safety had to use a ladder to climb into the house and rescue Chidera, who looked emaciated and had multiple bruises on her body.


The Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency stepped in after the girl's story was made public with the hashtag #RescueChidera.


With the help of the Ipaja Police Station, Chidera has been removed from the home where she's suffered abuse.


Her stepmother has now been arrested.