At the 5:08 time stamp, the Thailand senior police interogator CLEARLY stated while interrogating that drug trafficker that out of all the African people, Igbos are the CURSE of Africa and Nigeria when it comes to criminal activities in Thailand.
CilicMarin: A Nigerian and five Thais have been detained in Bangkok following a police raid over a romance scam that made at least 200 million baht in a year.
A police search of seven locations in Bangkok, Nakhon Sawan, Phuket and Pathum Thani on Monday led to the arrest of the six suspects, Pol Maj Gen Suwat Saengnoom, chief of the Crime Suppression Division, said on Tuesday.
The suspects were identified as Ms Punyawee Chusinjiraphat, 46; Mr Ezeneche Uzochukwu Jorome, 44, a Nigerian national; Ms Sasithorn Nuankaew, 22; Mr Sudjai Kamnon, 34; Mr Thotsaphol Siripru, 33, and Mr Nirandon Thianthavorn, 29.
They were charged with conspiracy to defraud and putting false information into the computer system, said the CSD commander in a report by Bangkokpost.
Seized from them were a new Mitsubishi Pajero sports vehicle, 906,000 baht in cash, seven mobile phones, 18 bank account books, several sets of ornaments, 11 watches, two ivory ornaments and 11 electronic cards.
The arrest came after a victim filed a complaint with Pol Maj Gen Jirabhop Bhuridej, deputy commissioner of the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB), last year, saying she had been swindled out of 1 million baht in a romance scam.
CSD investigators began the probe and found that the gang, comprising both Thais and foreign nationals, had colluded in swindling the complainant.
One member of the gang opened an Instagram account under the name Mr Lanny Gray. He then approached the victim, claiming to be an American businessman working in Malaysia.
After befriending the victim, the man switched to communicating through the Line chat app, sending numerous messages and promising to live in Thailand with her. After gaining her trust, he told her she would send parcels containing valuable items to her.
Another gang member, a Thai, later contacted the victim by phone, claiming to be an agent from a shipping firm and telling her to pay fees to receive the parcels.
The woman had paid almost 1 million baht but had yet to receive any packages, said Pol Maj Gen Suwat.
After receiving money from the victim, the gang also tried to swindle more money from her. Another gang member, claiming to be a hospital employee from Malaysia, had phoned her and said Mr Lanny Gray had suffered serious injuries in an accident and was under treatment at a hospital.
The impostor had asked her to pay almost 500,000 baht in medical bills for Mr Gray. The woman became suspicious and tried to contact him but failed. She decided not to wire the money and filed a complaint with the police at Wang Thong Lang police station.
Pol Col Wiwat Jitsophakul, superintendent of the CSD sub-division 3, who led the arrest, said investigators took more than five months to find clues about seven people involved in the scam.
The investigation found that the Nigerian suspect, Ezeneche Uzochukwu Jorome, and his wife, Punyawee were gang leaders.
Several women had fallen victim to the gang over the past few years, said Pol Col Wiwat.
The gang had used about 50 bank accounts of other people to receive money transfers from victims. Once the money had been transferred, they used ATM cards to withdraw the money and deposited it to personal bank accounts, said the sub-division three chiefs.
Between 2020 and 2021, about 200 million baht had been in circulation in a bank account held by Ms Punyawee, said Pol Col Wiwat.
The Nigerian suspect had run a restaurant and a currency exchange shop as front businesses to conceal his wrongdoings. Police seized documents from those businesses for examination.
The CSD investigators also found that the Nigerian suspect had committed a similar offence in 2018 in Chiang Mai by claiming to be a decommissioned South African military officer to lure his victim online. The investigators believed several women had fallen victim to this gang.
adamusuleiman1: Thai law permits the imposition of a death sentence for 35 crimes, including treason, murder, and drug trafficking.
According to the Director General of Customs, officers have been instructed to ramp up monitoring for drug smugglers, in line with the government’s anti-drug policy.
Thirach Attanawanich adds that as a result of increased checks, between October 1, 2023 and March 25, 2024, his department carried out 74 drug seizures, with a total value of over 412 million baht approximately.
This compares to 185 arrests and drug seizures worth a total of 1.17 billion baht in the 1 year period between October 1, 2022 and September 30, 2023.
klintoski: A 45-year-old Nigerian man, Ezeneche Uzochukwu Jerome, and 13 Thai indigenes have been arrested by the Royal Thai Police for their roles in a romance scam syndicate that defrauded victims of more than 800 million baht.
Ezeneche, in 2021 said he was appointed the king Igbos in six nations of Asia.
According to Bangkok Post, following a series of coordinated police operations across seven provinces, the head of the Crime Suppression Division Pol Maj Gen Montree Theskhan, announced on Friday that his division's team had carried out raids at 14 different sites on Thursday.
According to statements from the victims, the scammers initiated contact through fake profiles of foreign women on social media platforms.
They were told by the scammers that they were American female soldiers serving in Syria. After winning the victims' trust, they would express a wish to visit the victims in Thailand.
However, before their journeys, they would inform the victim that they sent gifts or some parcels into Bangkok, via the airports.
They would then lure the victims into paying taxes or other necessary fees in advance on their behalf, adding that they would reimburse the victims when they met.
A group of Thai scammers then contacted the victims pretending to be airport authorities and demanded money for the alleged parcel-receiving process.
After getting the amount they wanted, the scammer would disappear and block all the contact channels with the victims.
The police conducted a further investigation until they identified the gang leader, Jerome. Jerome had been previously charged with a love scam in 2018 but managed to re-engage in the illicit operation.
This HIGHLY notorious liar known as Jackson Ude is the source of the FAKE 2 million USD theft story with the link BELOW.
Jackson Ude is well-known even to Journalists as a relentless liar and FAKE news fabricator whose sources, projections and write ups are always WRONG or off the mark. He has also blackmailed or attempted to blackmail many people in the past.
Even the Jewish-American (Dr. Jeffrey Guterman who was an Obi supporter) called Ude out on X in 2023 for being a pathological liar. Investigations also reveal that his former place of residence (before he relocated to the United States) was used as a haven for hard drugs usage.
A lot of his so-called "credible sources" and information end up NOT panning out.
Abba, the son of former Director General of the Department of State Services, Yusuf Magaji Bichi has made away with the sum of $2 million (N3 billion), journalist, Jackson Ude tweeted on Thursday.
Mr. Ude quoted DSS sources as saying that Abba knew where his father keeps money he collects from politicians. In two separate tweets on Thursday on his verified X handle @jacksonpbn, he wrote: => https://www.nairaland.com/8213603/leaked-abba-ex-dss-dgs-son
ogaontop: Anyway, the gold and precious stones up North are not accounted for so I don't blame him saying so! The oil down south is what everyone is fighting for while the resources up North is reserved and made for some certain people!
The man (Orji Kalu) himself has some investments through his company in the solid minerals or mining sector which he was referring to in the video. Towards the end of the video reportage, he did CLEARLY say that oil which Nigeria depends on is going out of fashion in many countries of the world and it important to focus on the mining of solid minerals found all over Nigeria with the provision of armed forest rangers to tackle the illegal mining menace which has led to the smuggling of solid precious minerals (Just like what is going on in the Democratic Republic of Congo).
iwaeda: NDLEA detects Drug Lab in VGC . This is serious, NDLEA need to be vigilant with many of these dispatch riders
Bump.
The worse aspect of this criminal behavior is that the toxic wastes of this illegal methamphetamine laboratories that have been busted by the NDLEA and other Intelligence agencies in Victoria Garden City in Ajah, Satellite Town, Oba New Site, Ajao Estate in Mafoluku, Festac Town, and in the Ibeju-Lekki area of Lagos State and in Ozubulu, Nnewi, Ihiala, and Obosi in Anambra State (all being illegally operated in Lagos and Anambra States for many years now by these hard drugs barons who are all from Anambra) have contaminated the underground water supply in those locations in Lagos and Anambra and if consumed from boreholes will lead to cancer. For these criminal vices, the use of lethal injections and/or death by hanging and electric chairs will deter a lot of these creeps.
BELOW is a major 2012 illegal hard drugs laboratory bust by the NDLEA in Satellite Town Lagos State:
Cousin9999: East and Southeast Asia are awash in record amounts of methamphetamine and other synthetic drugs, the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime said in a new report Tuesday. It traced their source largely to the cross-border region known as the Golden Triangle where Thailand, Myanmar and Laos meet.
The region is historically known for growing opium and hosting many of the labs that convert it to heroin.
“We have become used to record seizures, but the scale meth production in the Golden Triangle has now reached is massive. So are the profits generated,” Benedikt Hofmann, UNODC’s deputy regional representative for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, told The Associated Press. “For East and Southeast Asia, we are now looking at something closer to $80 billion per year feeding back into the region’s illicit economies.”
The Golden Triangle area has seen decades of political instability.
Myanmar’s frontier regions are largely lawless and exploited by drug producers and traffickers. In recent decades, it has become the region’s epicenter for illegal amphetamine products. A 2021 military takeover that unseated the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi and triggered armed resistance nationwide further destabilized the country.
The new report said the total amount of methamphetamine seized in East and Southeast Asia reached a record 190 tons in 2023. Some 89% of that came from Southeast Asia, with much of that from the Golden Triangle.
The 1.1 billion seized methamphetamine tablets, weighing 98.3 tons, were the most ever reported for the region, as were the 90 tons of seized crystal methamphetamine, the report said.
Even regional seizures of the party drug ecstasy, though representing a very small portion of the illicit synthetic drugs trafficked in the region, reached record levels last year of over 26.7 million tablets, mostly originating from Europe, the report said.
It also highlighted the increasing appearance in recent years of ketamine, a powerful anesthetic used for patients undergoing surgery but recently employed for treating depression and anxiety, as well as for recreational use.
The U.N. report said networks that make and traffic ketamine have diversified their business model and supply channels, moving from other parts of East and Southeast Asia into the Golden Triangle area of Myanmar and, more recently, into other countries in the lower Mekong River basin.
The region’s production of methamphetamine is concentrated in eastern Myanmar’s Shan State — the heartland of the Golden Triangle — especially in areas known as Special Regions where ethnic minorities with their own armies enjoy some privileges of self-government, the report said.
“The illicit drug manufacturing activity is undertaken by Asian organized crime groups who have partnered with armed groups in Shan,” it said.
Myanmar’s northern and eastern border regions have also become notorious for harboring major organized crime operations in casinos involving online scams, illegal gambling and human trafficking.
“The growing convergence of drug trafficking and emerging forms of organized crime in the Mekong is a major concern,” said UNODC’s Hofmann. “An online casino may be used to launder proceeds from the drug economy, while the same building may house a scam center – all in the hands of one criminal group which offers additional criminal services via Telegram and other channels.”
The report also said drugs originating from Myanmar are increasingly being smuggled to other countries along maritime routes. The drugs are sent as far as South Korea, Australia and New Zealand and other Pacific nations.
“Trafficking routes combining complex land-based and maritime corridors have become more common, essentially creating super-highways for large drug shipments out of the Mekong, many of which go undetected,” Hofmann said.
Asianplug: I don’t get it, you mean ethnicities or nationalities? If you mean the former, that’s not possible. We are talking about countries that are very far from Nigeria. They don’t understand our diversities. These people only have memos passed down to them to profile citizens of Nigeria based on the activities of their nationals. They can’t differentiate who is Hausa, Igbo or Yoruba. Does it even make sense?
Can you or any random staff at our international airports be able to identify the different ethnicities of say Chinese nationals or Vietnamese nationals by merely looking at the name on their passports?
I hope you get my point.
You are NOT well informed about this subject matter you are talking about.
They have the profiles of Nigerians who have relentlessly committed crimes in their data bases as can be seen in the FIRST video right BELOW based on specific recurring patterns. They know about the frequency of crimes in percentages specific ethnicities or demographics have committed in some of those Asian countries even though these criminals use Nigerian passports. I have a background for years in criminal investigations and intelligence gathering, so, I know this to be a FACT. Do NOT be fooled by the so-called green passport cover these criminals hide under. Those Asian investigators (in Thailand, China, India, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, etc, and those in other countries such as South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Brazil, etc) are NOT stupid. They look at all the variables such as demographics and more when it comes to crime detection and realized that more than 95 percent right up to 100 percent of the drug trafficking gangs and dealers, sex trafficking offenders, and 419 scammers in their countries who are from Nigeria are of the Igbo ethnic group. Period.
Watch Right BELOW the Viral Video [Especially from Time Stamp 5:08] of How The Senior Thailand Police Officer in the 2014 Video CLEARLY and Bluntly Calls Out the Igbos as the Biggest CURSE of Africa and Nigeria with Reference to Drug Trafficking Crimes in Thailand. [Tinder Swindler, Drugs or Football?]
Operation Priscilla In South Africa (A 2005 Drug & Sex Trafficking Sting Operation on Criminal Gangs of Igbo Ethnic Origins From the South East of Nigeria)
OkanlawonB: I still believe, its not a matter of being nigerian or carrying a nigerian passport, it has more to do with this obscure and sorry to say "primitive" destinations.
How many nigerians fly into Western Europe everyday? Do you hear of such complaints?
I wonder what nigerians are going to do in Vietnam when Vietnamese are coming to Western Europe to seek asylum. If Vietnam was so good they won't be doing these.
The Vietnamese economy is booming right now and there's ALSO a large Vietnamese-American Diaspora who essentially left in the wake of the Vietnam War which ended in the 1970s. They've been investing back in Vietnam and things are looking up.
Vietnam also generates massive amounts of electricity from off-grid solutions, far more than Nigeria's 5500 MW all-time production and that is good for business.
However, I do agree that some Vietnamese are seeking for greener pastures and Vietnam has become one of the hubs in Asia where highly notorious criminal elements who are into hard drugs such a as heroine, cocaine, methamphetamine, etc, with origins in majorly one of the states in the South East of Nigeria are involved based on data from the National Intelligence Agency at my disposal. This same highly irresponsible criminal hard drugs cartel from the South East of Nigeria (whose names where published in the Seychelois mass media) caused Seychelles to beam an intense searchlight in 2023 leading to a temporary halt to the arrival of Nigerians in the main island of Mahe in the Seychelles.
Asianplug: Nigerian nationals are now treated like criminals just for being in possession of the green passport.
It depends on how you are profiled and what country you are visiting. Some Asian countries carry out country-specific profiling based of off specific ethnicities as well because they have relentlessly got criminals in their data base from such ethnic group trooping into their country with hard drugs.
I'm also aware that Botswana was carrying out this ethnic profiling of Nigerians almost 10 years ago now when they noticed that hard drugs cartels were coming into Botswana from a specific ethnic group in Nigeria.
Asianplug: Lol, I can’t even go against traffic light in Nigeria , not to talk of going against the law abroad. Life is too short for anyone to spend a day in prison.
💯 percent law abiding.
Modified***
Some people are insinuating wrongly about my username.
Cousin9999: Human trafficking-fueled fraud is exploding in Southeast Asia with organized crime rings raking in close to $3 trillion in illicit revenue annually, the head of Interpol has said in comments that reveal the huge profits being earned by cartels.
One international organized crime group makes $50 billion a year, according to Interpol secretary-general Jurgen Stock, adding that $2 trillion to $3 trillion of illicit money flows through the global financial system annually. To compare, France’s economy is worth $3.1 trillion according to the International Monetary Fund.
While drug trafficking contributes around 40% to 70% of organized crime income, criminal groups are also using those smuggling networks to illegally move humans, arms and stolen products among other things, Stock said.
“Driven by online anonymity, inspired by new business models and accelerated by Covid, these organized crime groups are now working at a scale that was unimaginable a decade ago,” Stock told a briefing at the global police coordination body’s Singapore office on Wednesday.
“Today, a bank – or indeed anyone – is less likely to be robbed at gunpoint than via a keyboard by someone on the other side of the world.
“What began as a regional crime threat in Southeast Asia has become a global human trafficking crisis, with millions of victims, both in the cyber scam centers and as targets.”
Interpol says its operations in Asia have led to nearly 3,500 arrests and the seizure of $300 million in illegally earned assets across 34 countries since 2021.
Survivor testimonies, NGO campaigning and media reporting over the past three years have increasingly exposed an explosion in online fraud gangs operating in Southeast Asia, many using de facto slave labor to target people across the globe, including the United States.
Victims from across Asia are often duped into seemingly legitimate jobs around the region and are then trafficked into scam compounds where they face serious abuse, including forced labor, arbitrary detention, degrading treatment or torture – often with minimal or no help from local authorities.
Hundreds of thousands of people are trafficked into online criminality across the region, according to a United Nations report last year.
The UN estimated that up to 120,000 people could be held in compounds across Myanmar, which has been plunged into civil war since a 2021 military coup, with another 100,000 people held in Cambodia and elsewhere in conditions that amount to modern slavery.
Criminal enterprises also exist in Laos, Thailand and the Philippines, with many of the lucrative online scam operations ranging from illegal gambling, to love scams and crypto fraud.
In heavily guarded compounds controlled by local warlords, tens of thousands of people, mainly Chinese, have been trapped and forced by criminal gangs to defraud strangers with sophisticated schemes over the internet. Beijing has pressed Myanmar’s military government to rein in the scam operations, but with limited success.
Thai authorities have apprehended a Nigerian pastor, an illegal immigrant, for possessing sensitive documents revealing a massive international scam. The cleric who's an illegal immigrant, had compiled a database of victims' personal information, including: - Profiles with names and addresses - Social media accounts with login credentials - Home addresses - Bank details etc
Thai authorities have sent a strong message: scamming will not be tolerated, regardless of nationality or profession. The public is reminded to be cautious of fraudulent schemes, Protect personal information and report suspicious activities to authorities.
LMAO...
He shouldn't have told the Thailand police a LIE that his passport was lost when INFACT it was in the hotel. He calls himself a pastor and told a lie. The Thai police officer correctly analyzed the situation and condemned him for telling lies on the passport issue and other instances relating to how he came into Thailand illegally without proper documentation.
This New Born Baby Girl was Dedicated To The Yoruba God Of Water (Osun) In A Trending Video
Osun is a "Goddess of water" not a "God" of water.
Now, it's gratifying the baby wasn't fully dipped into that water, just the legs. That water source is probably the closest to them but it DOESN'T excuse the use of that environment. Common sense should have prevailed, although they might think NOTHING negative would happen because they are carrying out a spiritual obligation, but to folks like us who are outsiders and respond to visual imagery, this is unacceptable. There are cleaner river sources they could have used. From here on out, the Osun State authorities must ensure that the environment is made CLEANER or the water source isn't used again. Period.
Ifa (the Yoruba religion) is an international religion with adherants all over the world in places such as Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil, Cuba (over 5000 Black and White Cuban Ifa priests, otherwise called Babalawos exist in Cuba alone), Venezuela, the United States, UK, Nigeria, Benin Republic, Togo, etc, so, a positive image must be kept as a religion that has gone beyond Africa.
To those ignorantly criticizing the religious faith of these folks, it's their right of choice, just like the Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Indians, Indigenous Native Indians in North, Central, and South America, the Thais, Vietnamese, etc, have their own indigenous religious beliefs. That hasn't STOPPED especially the Chinese, Japanese, South Koreans, Indians, etc, from evolving technologically and economically.
Professor Wande Abimbola, who was a two-term Vice Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife in Osun State is an Ifa priest or Babalawo, and his religious persuasion and designation was well known to everyone at the time he was the VC. Many Babalawos (priest of the Ifa religion) are professionals and professors which is different from the crazy falsehoods and works of fiction you see in some dubious and older Nigerian home videos. This is why Ifa priests (Babalawos) embarked on media enlightenments years back to correct these misconceptions created by those home videos that were produced by religious fundamentalists of those foreign orthodox religions.
greypencils: Catholic priests and nuns are one of the worst people on earth, yes I said it. There is no limit to their wickedness which they term strictness. And beneath their garment of self-righteousness is a sexual freak already running wild or waiting to run wild.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddximagPFMw This arrest of a Nigerian-born Roman Catholic was done in July 2024 in Waco, TX. The level of depraved sexual behavior among some of these Catholic priests over several decades serves as evidence to support the well-known fact that some of these folks just went into the priesthood or became nuns because of other reasons, chief of which is financial opportunities and sponsorships from the Vatican. The Vatican has a vast "war chest" from several riches it has made and stored over the centuries from precious minerals, real estate and more.
WACO, Texas (KWTX) - The Waco Police Department on Tuesday announced it is searching for additional survivors who were sexµally assaulted by Father Anthony Odiong, 55, a Catholic priest.
In March of this year, Waco police said they received credible information reporting that the priest - identified as Odiong - had committed a sexual assault in 2012. Waco PD said two charges of sexual assault have been filed against Odiong and eight survivors have been identified so far.
Gistmedia10: A Catholic priest has sparked online outrage after a viral video showed him giving an altar boy a heavy knock on the head during a wedding ceremony. The incident occurred as the groom and bride exchanged vows, and the boy was tasked with holding the microphone close to the couple so that the audience could hear them clearly.
However, due to the height difference between the altar boy and the couple, he struggled to keep the microphone steady. Frustrated by the boy's inability to perform the task properly, the priest, in full view of the congregation, delivered a sharp knock to his head. The footage, which surfaced online, immediately drew a wave of reactions from netizens.
Many condemned the priest’s actions, with one user commenting, "Some people just don’t have manners. Must he do that in front of the congregation? Everyone deserves respect regardless." Another added, "This is wrong. The priest allowed his emotions to rule over him. You can correct the boy at the end of the service."
That was an outright act of child abuse. If he could do that in the full glare of everyone in that place, then you can imaging what he does to the altar boys off camera. He should also go for mental health checks to assertain that he hasn't got any emerging mental health issues.
In a worse-case scenario, even if the Oba of Benin said some things in confidence or in private, he would deny that he ever said so when in public and you cannot counter him easily in the absence of recorded evidence.
In any event, Adams Oshiomole and others like him who tend to be garrulous atimes must learn the art of being circumspect about revealing confidential information in the public domain to avoid getting embarrassed OR cautioned like an adult would scold a kid in public. He must learn to keep his mouth shut as and when due! Period.
Telecommunication companies have increased their reliance on renewable energy sources as the soaring cost of diesel, which reached N56.24 billion in monthly expenses, continues to strain operators.
The Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) reports that diesel accounts for 35 percent of telecom operating expenses.
Due to the unreliable electricity supply in Africa’s most populous nation, the industry heavily relies on off-grid power from generators.
According to industry estimates, telecom operators use an average of 40 million litres of diesel per month to power their sites. The price of diesel surged to N1,406.05 per litre in August 2024, representing a 64.58 percent increase from N854.32 per litre in August 2023, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
This implies that the cost of powering Nigeria’s communication infrastructure increased from N34.17 billion in August 2023 to N56.24 billion in August 2024.
As of the end of 2022, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) stated there were 34,862 towers and 127,294 base stations in the country. Industry sources indicate that each base station has two generators. The telecoms industry spent N2.09 trillion on operational costs in 2022, based on the latest data from the NCC.
President of ALTON Gbenga Adebayo confirmed the current diesel consumption, stating, “It will be over that now.”
Harmanpreet Dhillon, Airtel Nigeria’s chief technical officer, revealed that the telco spent N28 billion on diesel in May 2024.
During a media roundtable, Dhillon mentioned that the company is exploring hybrid solutions—lithium batteries and solar—to lower its energy bill.
McKinsey recently noted that companies could save up to 30% on energy costs by adopting renewable energy solutions and other technologies.
“The biggest constraint in the telecom industry is high energy costs. If the government had continued to fulfil its part of the bargain made in the early 2000s to provide 18 hours of electricity, the heavy logistics and capital we spend today on powering sites would not be necessary,” Adebayo said, adding that these energy challenges threaten the sector’s sustainability.
In its 2023 audited results, MTN Nigeria Communications Plc highlighted how “the combined effects of naira devaluation, higher inflation, and rising energy costs” led to increased operating expenses.
High energy costs in May 2022 prompted telcos to request a 40 per cent increase in calls, SMS, and data prices due to rising operating costs. At that time, they stated that their energy costs had increased by 35 percent.
A combination of these factors led Karl Toriola, chief executive officer of MTN Nigeria, to declare that the industry is “in a big crisis.”
Aside from Airtel, other telecom companies are shifting to alternative energy sources such as solar, lithium batteries, CNG, and LPG to reduce their dependence on diesel.
“Even when you have alternative energy, they do not provide 24-hour backup; you must seek other energy sources,” said Adebayo of ALTON.
In 2023, WATT Renewable Corporation, the parent company of First WATT Renewables Limited, signed a $13 million deal with Empower New Energy to reduce diesel usage.
“To start, we are looking to modernise over 200 telecom sites within 10 months, and part of that plan is to reduce diesel consumption by 3 million litres annually,” said Oluwole Eweje, CEO of WATT Renewable Corporation.
Kazeem Oladepo, vice president at IHS Towers, highlighted that while diesel remains a major energy source, many tower companies are integrating alternative energy sources such as solar, LPG, CNG, and others.
During a Nairametrics Industry Spotlight webinar with the theme: “Beyond Connectivity: Telcos and the Future of Financial Inclusion in Nigeria,” Chukwuebuka Ezewuzie, senior manager of growth and new business tech platforms at MTNN, noted that the telco is exploring renewable energy.
“A lot of advancement is occurring at the moment in adopting renewable energy because the infrastructure powered by diesel and petrol is massively expensive. So, how are we going to use the free energy from the sun and wind to power this equipment and reduce costs? This is one of the key areas telcos are currently exploring,” he said.
Every negative experience presents an opportunity to evolve or unleash your true potentials. So, the use of cheaper hybrids such as the far cheaper CNG or renewable energies such as wind as part of the off-grid energy mix is a blessing instead of depending wholly on a central electricity source. Period.
adamusuleiman3: A Nigerian leader of an international drug ring that led to the arrest of 12 South Koreans abroad will be extradited to Korea from China later Wednesday to face drug smuggling and other charges, officials said.
Obioha Frank Chinedu, 41, is accused of smuggling cocaine and hemp carried by South Korean travelers, mostly young women, who were enticed by Chinedu's offers to pay all of their travel expenses, Yonhap News Wednesday reported quoting officials at the Ministry of Justice.
The 12 Koreans _ 10 women and two men _ were arrested in Britain, the Netherlands, Brazil and Japan, and were sentenced to between three and five years and a half in jail. Prosecutors believe Chinedu's arrest will help reduce sentences for the imprisoned Koreans.
"He use a common tactic by drug rings: ''If you pass customs, I will give you money for travel'', Jin Kyung-joon, an official at the ministry's international criminal affairs division, was quoted as saying.
The suspect fled overseas with a forged passport after prosecutors launched an investigation in 2002. He was arrested the following year at an airport in Frankfurt, Germany, for drug possession, but despite Korean prosecutors' request for extradition, he was transferred to Denmark, where another smuggling case had emerged involving a Korean as part of Chinedu's operation.
Chinedu escaped the Aarhus prison while awaiting trial in 2004, resurfacing in China where he was detained at Korea's request in 2007. A Chinese court ordered his extradition to Korea.
Officials said he approached the Koreans as an American businessman and smuggled 30 kilograms of cocaine and 60 kilograms of hemp at a plant that can be used to make cloth, paper as well as drugs. https://www.koreatimes.co/www/nation/2024/09/113_30843.html
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