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Shymm3x:
However, majority of the loudest voice who always disturb them about Biafra are Yorubas. Why? Why the fvck are a lot of Yorubas so concerned about Biafra when it's obvious that Nigeria has stunted and destroyed the progression of Yorubas? Why are Yorubas benefiting from the Nigerian experiment, anyway?

The first secession was a war of necessity - but this one is none of ya business. Just leave these folks and their Biafra alone.

Yes, fvck radio biafra and all the hate and vitriol they spout on there about Yorubas. However, if no part of Yorubaland is included in the dream - why not leave them alone? They can take the whole SS for all I care - the onus is on those from there to fight their own battles. Yorubaland can thrive without other parts of the country easily.

Omo Ijebu, u don de get sense

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Nigerian Fraudster Arrested For Defrauding American Of $4M, Ado Ekiti Hotel Owner In EFCC Net
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Nigerian Fraudster Arrested For Defrauding American Of $4 Million, Ado Ekiti Hotel Owner, Idowu Olarenwaju In EFCC Net.The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday said it has arrested a suspected fraudster, Idowu Olarenwaju (alias Capt Anthony Abel Saramoh) has been defrauding an
American Citizen of $4million through his company, Total Intership Nigeria Limited.

The suspect blew the fraud cash on exotic cars, acquisition of several properties in Port Harcourt, and a 44-room hotel in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State.

The posh cars recovered from the suspect included a 2014 Range Rover, 2013 Honda Crosstour, 2013 Range Evogue and Honda CRV.

According to a statement by the Head of Media and Publicity of the EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren.

The statement said: “The heist was earned through a phony crude oil contracts with the victim, wiring the said amount into the account of Total Intership Nigeria Limited ostensibly for the supply of crude oil.

“The bubble burst after the victim was left clutching the air, in an exasperating wait that ended with a petition to the EFCC.

“One Joe Onwudimowei, an accomplice who operates the account of Total Intership Nigeria Limited with Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) where the proceeds of the said fake contract was deposited, was arrested on 18th June, 2015 and upon interrogation, fingered Idowu Olanrewaju and one Otunba Yemi Osho as the people he handed over all monies that passed through the account.ekiti hotelier fraudster

”On the 19th of June, 2015, the duo of Idowu Olanrewaju and Yemi Osho were arrested following a dawn raid on their homes by operatives of the EFCC.”

The statement said the suspect, who has no reasonable source of income, was speechless when confronted with facts.hotel owner dupes american

The statement added: “According to Onwudimowei, Olanrewaju sometime in 2010, instructed him to withdraw the sum of Three Million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira (N3, 500, 000.00) for Chief Yemi Osho. Osho, he claimed, in turn handed over the money to two people sent to him by Olarenwaju.[/b]

[b]The US justice department @TheJusticeDept tweeted a link just now. The content of the link follows thus:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, July 13, 2015
Six Yoruba Nigerians Nationals Extradited from South Africa to Mississippi to Face Fraud Charges
Six Yoruba Nigerians nationals were extradited from South Africa to Gulfport, Mississippi, to face a nine-count federal indictment in the Southern District of Mississippi alleging various Internet fraud schemes. A total of 20 defendants are charged in this case.

Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis of the Southern District of Mississippi made the announcement.

Oladimeji Seun Ayelotan, 30; Rasaq Aderoju Raheem, 31; Olusegun Seyi Shonekan, 33; Taofeeq Olamilekan Oyelade, 30; Olufemi Obaro Omoraka, 26; and Anuoluwapo Segun Adegbemigun, 39, are charged along with 15 others in an Oct. 7, 2014, indictment with conspiracy to commit mail fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud, conspiracy to commit identity theft, use of unauthorized account access devices, theft of U.S. government funds and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The charges stem from the defendants alleged participation in numerous Internet-based complex financial fraud schemes, including romance scams, re-shipping scams, fraudulent check scams and work-at-home scams, as well as bank, financial and credit card account takeovers.

According to the allegations in the indictment, from as early as 2001, the defendants identified and solicited potential victims through online dating websites and work-at-home opportunities. In some instances, the defendants allegedly carried on fictitious online romantic relationships with victims for the purpose of using the victims to further certain objectives of the conspiracy. For example, the indictment alleges that the defendants convinced victims to ship and receive merchandise purchased with stolen personal identifying information (PII) and compromised credit card and banking information, to deposit counterfeit checks, and to transfer proceeds of the conspiracy via wire, U.S. mail or express delivery services.

To date, defendants Teslim Olarewaju Kiriji, 30; Olutoyin Ogunlade, 41; and Dennis Brian Ladden, 75, have been convicted of offenses relating to their roles in the schemes. Defendants Susan Anne Villeneuve, 49; and Genoveva Farfan, 45; Sesan Olumide Farin, 40; Femi Alexander Mewase, 44; Rhulane Fionah Hlungwane, 24; and Adekunle Adefila, 40, are awaiting trial. The United States is seeking extradition from Nigeria of defendants Kayode Bamidele, Ajayi Oluwaseyi Stephen and Emmanuel Adeniyi Osokomaiya. Defendants Gabriel Oludare Adeniran and Oduntan Sikiru Lawani remain fugitives.

The charges and allegations in the indictment are merely accusations. A defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.

This case is being investigated by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. Significant assistance was also provided by the Criminal Division’s Office of International Affairs, the HSI Cyber Crimes Center, HSI Attachés in Pretoria and Dakar, U.S. Marshals Service’s International Investigations Branch and the Southern District of Mississippi, the South African Police Service (SAPS) Directorate of Priority Crimes Investigation (DPCI) Electronic Crimes Unit, the SAPS Interpol Extradition Unit, the South African National Prosecution Authority, and the South African Department of Justice and Constitutional Development. The case is being prosecuted by Trial Attorney Robert Tully of the Criminal Division’s Organized Crime Gang Section and Assistant U.S. Attorneys Annette Williams and Scott Gilbert of the Southern District of Mississippi.

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/six-nigerian-nationals-extradited-south-africa-mississippi-face-fraud-charges[/b]

Biodun37:
It's a known fact that an average "yiibo" man will do everything for money. If all tribes castigate Yoruba on crime/criminality, "Igbo" should be an exception.

These ppl will do good by simply relocating away from the south west, better to any of their cities and see how living standard there can be improved to reduce the rate at which thier wards move in to lagos (southwest) instead of this continuous ungrateful attack on a tribe which has benefited them tremendously.

[b] Emerging Trend Of Social Almajiri In [b][/b]Yorubaland
By Hakeem Jamiu
There is a social malaise which is gradually creeping into the lexicon of Yorubaland and this is the ugly spectre of hungry children begging for food and alms at social events. Older women are equally not left out in this ugly but strange practice in Yorubaland. It is strange in Yorubaland because the concept of almajiri which simply means street urchin is common in the Northern part of the country. Yorubas use to refer derisively to anybody soliciting for arms in Yorubaland in the olden days as almajiri. The almajiri of the North are usually children between the age bracket of 7 and 20 in most cases. Almajiris are so desperate for food that any unsuspecting visitor to the Northern part of the country who goes to a restaurant to eat but mistakenly left his food to wash his hands is likely to lose such to waiting almajiris before he comes back for the food.

I first noticed this ugly trend at a ceremony I attended a few months ago at Ayetoro Ekiti. Elderly and middle aged able bodied women from Kwara, Osun and Oyo states invaded the burial ceremony uninvited and were embarrassing guests who refused to give them money. Also noticeable were children with their begging bowls who thronged the venue of the ceremony soliciting for left over food and alms. The children were a pitiable sight. Poverty was clearly written on their faces. I have attended many social functions after that and the same trend was noticeable. But I became worried a few days ago, when I attended the burial ceremony of a friend's father in Ilesha , Osun State . They came in various groups and employ different methods in soliciting for alms. There were the elderly women who were busy harassing guests in the name of praise singing and would not leave until you part with money, there were the men with their public address system which they use in praise singing but which is disturbance and yet, there were Yoruba children in the mould of almajiris with their begging bowls scrambling for left-over and at the same time soliciting for alms.

Fellow guests on my table at the event who were also journalists expressed their concern in unison about the growing trend of almajiri of various categories in Yorubaland. They all agreed that it has become a social problem. We started discussing and realised that the culture of begging in the mould of almajiris is alien to Yoruba culture. In those days before the advent of the British, the Yorubas are a proud people known for their hard work and industry. They practiced hoe agriculture and were well known as traders and for their crafts. Yoruba artists have produced masterpieces of woodcarving and bronze casting, some of which date from as early as the 13th century. Many of Nigeria 's best-known artists and writers are Yoruba. Other occupation of the Yorubas at that time were drumming and masquerading which would now be called showbiz. They engage in all the foregoing occupation but a Yoruba man or woman (able bodied) would not beg for alms as it is considered shameful and something akin to a curse. The Yorubas cherish their oriki (folklore) which is a poetic version of eulogizing the exploits of their progenitors which is an incentive for them to excel and even surpass their progenitors. The Yorubas have harsh words for lazy people. Such people are objects of ridicule and butt of jokes in the society. With this background, it is understandable why we became worried with the array of beggars at the Ilesha ceremony.

After leaving the party, I reflected on the scenario of the almajiris in Ilesha and I was able to draw a relationship between Political almajiris and social almajiris. I discovered that social almajiri had its root in the advent of the politics of do -or-die introduced into the political lexicon of Yorubaland by apostles of mainstream politics especially ex-President Obasanjo. The grand Patron of political almajiris who recently passed away was Chief Lamidi Adedibu. Many have argued that his dath has led to the profilration of almajiris in Yorubaland. This is because those he hitherto dole handouts to must look for other means of survival since he is no more. These political almajiris are ready to exchange their mothers for few coins. A new political class of men without integrity and anything goes was created and they became political almajiris who survive on crumbs from their masters. They would rig, kill, maim and do all sort of things to acquire political power. With the ascension of these men in power, good governance became a thing of the past. Our collective patrimony was squandered by these political almajiris. Nigeria has never been so blessed with petro dollar with oil selling for $156 dollars per barrel but Nigeria has never been so poor with a chunk of the population living below poverty line. So versions of the political almajiris are the social almajiris that now invade ceremonies in Yorubaland. With these children begging for alms, a ready made market for thuggery and other social vices is assured. The activities of the beggars are not limited to parties. At bus stops in our cities, it is a common sight to see women most of who are still in their mid thirties, who would strap a baby at their backs and approach men with stories of despair to solicit for alms. Many of them would end up in bed with such men. This is another brand of alamajiri and these are Yoruba women. A violent version of almajiri but which is gradually being tackled in Lagos is the 'Area Boys' syndrome. These are Yoruba street urchins who are semi- armed robbers.

The underlying factor in this new trend is failure of the Nigerian State on one part and the laziness on the part of these women. Most of them don't want to work.. In those days, when everybody's occupation was farming you dare not beg. You must find something to do. But these days, our women and children are too lazy. It is either they steal or beg. In most cases a mother and child become almajiris at social events. So the question now is can a Yoruba man now refer derisively to a Hausa beggar as almajiri when we have many of them now in Yorubaland? The answer is no! This trend must be arrested before it goes out of hand. The almajiris in the North these days engage in novel forms of drug abuse like sniffing of gutter water to get intoxicated, sniffing of adhesives and other drugs so that they are ever ready to unleash terror on the rest of the society whenever they are called upon to do so by the political wing of almajiris. I strongly recommend that guests at public functions must stop encouraging almajiris by giving them money.

But can government which itself owns the political wing of almajiris arrest this trend? Time will tell.
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http://www.independentngonline.com/oped/article01

Metro Human Spare Parts 'Market' Uncovered in Ogun State

[b]Discussion in 'Metro News' started by Lequte, Jun 18, 2015.

Nigeria - The Ogun state police has uncovered a ritualist den in Ode Remo where human parts were being sold and eaten by some people suspected to be ritualists, Daily Times says.

Yoruba Susupected-Ritualist.

The discovery by the police, also led to the arrest of five suspects. At the shrine, decomposing body parts suspected to be that of a missing female student of Science Laboratory Technology department at Gateway Polytechnic, Saapade, Morenikeji Owolabi, were found dismembered.

Speaking at Eposo area of Ode Remo, the state Commissioner of Police, Val Ntomchukwu, said the prime suspect, who is a herbalist identified as Femi Awise, is still at large.

Ntomchukwu disclosed that five suspects, including a commercial motorcyclist that conveyed the victim to the scene, have been arrested and would be arraigned in court upon the completion of police investigation.

The suspects, who were detained at the Divisional Police Headquarters, Isara-Remo, include Adeyemi Ademolu, 29, Lateef Ali, 23, Dare Akinyemi, 22, Wasiu Sotola, 23 and Taiwo Omolaso, 22.

Human flesh that were butchered into pieces and apparently cooked were seen in one black pot, while the right limb of the victim was seen in a nearby shallow grave.

The stench oozing from the place did not stop scores of people in the town and its environs to throng the shrine to catch a glimpse of the police discovery.

“What we want to tell the public is that they should monitor the movement of their wards and children, especially when they are left in school and other public institutions. They should always keep watch over their children, call them regularly and where they don’t see them, they should quickly report to the police.” Ntomchukwu said.

Jun 18, 2015

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[b] Ogun Police Arrest Yoruba Suspected Ritualist With 18 Human Skulls


Ogun Police Arrest Suspected Ritualist Ayomide, With 18 Human Skulls
By AfricanOutlook reporter

In south-west Nigeria, Ogun State Police Command on Thursday announced arrest of a suspected ritualist for being in possession of 18 human skulls allegedly kept inside a bag.

The Command Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, who confirmed the arrest to newsmen in Abeokuta said the suspect, Adelani Ayomide, who was a pedestrian was arrested around 6:48am local time on Thursday during a stop and search along Ado-Odo-Owode road by Policemen attached to a division in Ado-Odo in Ado-Odo-Ota local government area of the state.‬


He explained that policemen attached to Ado-Odo division while on stop and search along Ado-Odo-Owode road sighted the 38-year old suspect, a resident of Ilaro town of the State and discovered a bag containing the human heads.‬



‪He declared further, "The suspect will be transferred to the state department of investigation, Eleweran Abeokuta, for discrete investigation.‬"

He added: "The Commissioner of Police Ikemefuna Okoye has assured the general public of a thorough investigation and make sure the suspect face the wrath of the law and assist in getting other suspects in connection with the crime."[/b]

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Ritualists descend on Osun State
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Osun State is gradually becoming ritualists playground.

Published: 12.06.2015
Isaac Dachen



Ritual killers are now having a field day in Osun State. play

Ritual killers are now having a field day in Osun State. (ireporters.com)
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The yuletide season and election years are always known to be the period where many desperate politicians and people looking for fast money take to various crimes to achieve their aim and in Osun State, south west Nigeria, ritual killers are having a field day.

Few days after the headless body of a young girl was discovered in an uncompleted building, in Magaji Area of Iwo, the headquarters of Iwo local government area, two other mutilated bodies were found on the Ife-Ibadan Expressway in the state yesterday.

The bodies which could not be identified, are suspected to be the handwork of ritualists who are becoming desperate.

The incident, according to the Daily Sun Newspaper, is sending a wave of fear and confusion around the state as no one knows where the evil people will strike again and who the next victim would be.

Reports by the paper stressed that the bodies must have been dumped on the road in the wee hours of the day, creating the impression that they were either killed in the town or brought from nearby Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

A man who was among the first set of people that arrived at the scene was quoted as saying:

"We strongly suspect that the bodies were dumped as early as 4 am. From our observations, the same parts were missing in both bodies. Heads, private parts and their limbs were all cut off. We only met the torsos.

We could not also determine the sexes of the bodies because unsuspecting vehicles had smashed them possibly because it was still dark when they were dumped."

According to another resident of the town, ritualists, especially those involved in picking unsuspecting passengers on the road, may have set up camps in the forest around the expressway. [/b]

[b]Yoruba, Suspected Ritualists Disguising As Lunatic Arrested in Ogun, Ibadan


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A middle aged man has been arrested by officers of the Nigeria Police Force under the Ogun State Command in connection with an underground cell suspected to be ritualists’ operation base at Iyana Egbado village in Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State, south west Nigeria.
The suspect was allegedly arrested with pieces of meat suspected to be chopped human parts in a polythene bag.
It was gathered that the suspect had attempted to kill a woman before she was rescued by a passers-by under a bridge, just about 250 meters away from the main gate of a popular cement company along the Abeokuta -Lagos expressway
The suspect, simply identified as Gbenga, was said to be a lunatic and had lived in the area since the past nine months.
He pleaded with the crowd not to kill him, asking for an opportunity to confess.
According to a report, the suspect told the mob that he belonged to a five-man syndicate among them a woman who operated in the Ewekoro axis of the state in the past nine months.
It was further gathered that police officers from the Itori police station arrived at the scene of the incident and thereafter whisked the suspect away to avoid being lynched by the mob that gathered at the scene of the incident.
Confirming the incident, the State Police spokesman, Mr Muyiwa Adejobi said the State Commissioner of Police, Ikemefuna Okoye, had ordered full investigation into the incident, but quick to ask members of the public not to take laws into their hands.
In a related development, the Oyo State Police Command arrested two suspects, who disguised as lunatics, at a suspected ritualist den.
They have confessed that they were human body parts dealers.
After a security meeting with Governor Abiola Ajimobi, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Mohammed Indabawa, said that it was not yet clear if the suspects were involved in the Soka incident.
Residents of Soka area had, last week, found decomposing human remains, skeletons and about 23 survivors inside an abandoned building dubbed the “House of Horror”.
The discovery sparked protests in the area, with protesters targeting lunatics seen around the area.
After the protest began, the government ordered the withdrawal of lunatics from major streets, with over 42 lunatics withdrawn so far in order to prevent them from further attacks.
There are also indications that forensic pathologists sent from the Force Criminal investigation Department in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, have started work on the den.
The Oyo State Security Council, after an emergency meeting on Wednesday, reaffirmed its resolve to apprehend perpetrators of the dastardly act of kidnap at the Soka area of the state capital.
Addressing journalists after the meeting headed by the state governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, the State Commissioner of Police, Mr Muhammed Ndabawa, stated that among others, preliminary investigations from the security agencies had revealed that the den of kidnappers and the activities of kidnappers in the place now tagged Evil Forest, had been in existence since about 10 years ago.


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Yoruba Suspected ritualists dump woman’s corpse at Ogun refuse site

The Punch, Posted August 2, 2015 4:40 pm by admin Comments
Suspected ritualists dump woman’s corpse at Ogun refuse site

The body of a 23-year-old lady has been dumped at a dump site at the Olomoore junction in Abeokuta metropolis, with some persons of the body already removed.

The victim’s name was given as Sitira, and said to be an apprentice hairdresser.

Before her tragic death, she was said to have completed her apprenticeship and was preparing for her freedom.

Some residents of the area believed that she was a victim of ritualists.

It was gathered that Sitira’s corpse was allegedly thrown off a moving jeep at the Olomoore dump site located along the Abeokuta-Lagos Expressway in the early hours of Sunday.

Littering the site were ladies pants, brassieres, camisoles, lip sticks, powder kits, and nail-paint, which suggested Sitira might not have been the only victim.

Some metres away from the spot, where these items were seen, lay the half-clothed Sitira’s corpse, with her camisole and ‘leggings’ intact.

But close observation of her corpse revealed that substantial flesh from her right arm was cut off, with body fluid oozing out.

Meanwhile, a middleage woman, Esther Adewuyi, who identified herself as a relative of Sitira, spoke with the journalists amidst sobbing.

She said the 23-year-old lady, who lost her only child two years ago, had been living with her mother in the Iberekodo area of Abeokuta North Local Government.

Adewuyi said, “Sitira was an hair stylist apprentice and she was last seen in their house around 10pm on Saturday night where she and her mother discussed plans for her freedom.

“Nobody, including her younger siblings, knew when she went out.”

When contacted, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, confirmed that Sitira must have been killed and dumped at the site.

He said, “We found the corpse in the area but we have taken the corpse to the mortuary.”
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Lord have Mercy



[b]Yoruba Herbalist Caught With Fresh Human, Tongue, Female Vagina In Ogun

TOPICS:AbeokutaAmuludun IseseAtanCDAChief Dandola OwotomoEruwonIjebu IgboIjebu OdeIjebu-Igbo North-East Local Government Area of Ogun StateKehinde RabiuMuyiwa AdejobiOdosimadegunpolicemenRitualiststhe Idode-Imomo Community Development Associationthe police spokesman in Ogun Statewoman’s
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Posted By: February 6, 2015

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ABEOKUTA — A herbalist identified as Chief Dandola Owotomo aka Amuludun Isese has been reportedly caught with human tongue, arm and a woman’s private part in Ijebu North-East Local Government Area of Ogun State.

He was said to be one of the three suspected ritualists arrested by police in the state in connection with the disappearance of a 70-year-old Kehinde Rabiu, who was declared missing at Idode-Imomo in the area.

Vanguard findings revealed that Owotomo,65, was arrested at his residence in Oke Agbo, Ijebu-Igbo in Ijebu North Local Government Area by policemen from Atan Police Division following a tip- off.

A police source from Atan Police Station, who pleaded anonymity, told Vanguard that the man was picked up by policemen after his house was searched where a shrine was uncovered with fresh human parts.

The source further said the police got a tip-off from a member of the Idode-Imomo Community Development Association, CDA, in the area.

It would be recalled that a kidnappers’ den was uncovered in the same area recently after the mysterious disappearance of the aged man which led to the arrest of three suspects.

According to the police source, ”we went to Ijebu-Igbo with the support of the CDA member after we got a tip-off from the people. When we got to the man’s house, it was an eyesore. We discovered a calabash in one of his rooms where a fresh human tongue, human palm and a woman’s private parts were kept in a shrine drenched with blood assumed to be human blood.

“We transferred him to Eleweran on Sunday and the Commissioner of Police has shown much interest in the case and had ordered that investigation should commence into the matter and he has promised to get to the root of the matter.”

When contacted, the police spokesman in Ogun State, Muyiwa Adejobi, who confirmed that some people had been arrested, said he was yet to be briefed on the latest happening.

Meantime, residents of the area have begun deserting their houses to neighbouring towns such as Atan, Eruwon, Odosimadegun and Ijebu-Ode following the fear of kidnappers and ritualists in the area.

Vanguard gathered that the residents believed their lives were no longer safe in the town following the discovery of the underground kidnappers’ den.[/b]

[b]Yoruba,SOKA-NIZATION: RITUALISTS FAST AND EVIL WAY TO GET WEALTHY.
Posted on July 8, 2015 by hollalaycan



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If you are familiar with trends in Nigeria I bet it will be almost impossible for anyone to have missed the popular event about a RITUALIST den called SOKA in Ibadan, Oyo State south west of Nigeria. It is also not uncommon to hear amongst the street guys/girls, market women, transporters, news media, the resonating sound of SOKA. It was an incident that will forever remain in the archive of Ibadan and Nigeria in parenthesis. Just 2 months back, Nigerians were awoken with the story of an abandoned yard which is being used as a slaughter slab and guillotine yard by the men of the underworld, a mammoth crowd of youths had stormed the abandoned property and discovered what was to be the subject of discourse in both the national and international media. Men and women, young and old, sane and insane, living and dead, malnourished and marooned in a confinement not even fit for a condemned criminal were astonishingly found in this abandoned compound, they were all victims of kidnap for ritual purpose.

Consequent upon the discovery at Soka in Ibadan, other ritual dens in different forms were discovered here and there, a ritualist den was discovered by a fly-over bridge at ewekoro LGA on Abeokuta expressway, another baby factory was discovered at Adigbe also in Abeokuta, same goes for a baby factory at Akute in Ifo LGA of Ogun state, these baby factories are sometimes the “BLACK MARKET” for ritualists who either has money to cough out or the lily livered among them who dread the fear of the long arm of the law as well as jungle justice in the event they got nabbed for kidnap, an elderly woman selling local gin(paraga and jedi) as a decoy was equally arrested at sango-ota for dealing in human parts which subsequently she claimed they source their products from the cemetery and upon a thorough search on her apartment, a human skull and other human anatomical items were discovered, Just when we thought we had seen and heard enough of this barbarism the news media is awashed with another rumour of reverberating sound of SOKA again in Ado-Odo Ota LGA and Ifo LGA.

Just 2 weeks ago, there was a report in the news media of a particular building in Ayetoro Itele Ota LGA where a boy hawking his wares was quarantined by some people believed to be ritualist and taken inside their house apparently to perpetrate their evil act, unknown to these men who pretend they want to buy from this boy’s wares, another buyer was waiting outside for the boy hawker, upon realizing the boy hawker had stayed too long in the house which report says it’s a bungalow self compound, and in a bid to test his curiosity and surely satisfied he saw the boy entering the compound, the waiting buyer outside decided to knock on the gate of the compound and could not get any response, he immediately alerted residents of the area who promptly besieged the building and discovered it to be another SOKA of sort. What a sinful world we live!

In addition, another unconfirmed story pop-up that some school kids were also kidnapped in an area called senukoro in lafenwa Ayetoro,Ado-Odo Ota LGA just last week, the kids were said to have been discovered in an uncompleted apartment in the said community. The kidnapped kids were said to have been hypnotized as they could not mutter any word when rescued by the residents. In a bid to do a rendering on the SOKA trend, I was dazed to also discover that just some few streets away from my house another SOKA was unveiled on the 20th June 2014. It strongly beats my imagination as to how men of the underworld easily perpetrate this heinous crime notwithstanding the level of consciousness of the entire population about their activities. I was on my way home from work on Friday when we discovered there was a traffic snarl at Iju hill by Grail-land, I initially thought it to be the usual go-slow mode or another tanker has fallen into the ditch which is caving in as we welcome the rain downpour, or at most the notorious danfo drivers and some private educated illiterates car owners had forgotten to take their psychotic pills and decided to face the oncoming vehicles from Ajuwon axis thereby resulting in avoidable accidents as we witness on daily basis, alas! It was none of these assumptions the traffic was caused by a detachment of police team and ambulances who were on their way from the SOKA joint to retrieve the bodies of murder victims. I didn’t really get the message at that particular moment until I got to the last bus-stop in Ajuwon where I decided to pick a grocery and I could see people echoing the epic tale of what happened in a hush-hush tone. Since I don’t really fancy the OLOFOFO style of gathering info, I decided to move on, but setting out on Saturday morning I was duly informed by an okada man that a particular area called pipeline in Ajuwon, Ifo LGA has produced another SOKA. He told me there was still a mammoth crowd trying to catch a glimpse and heavy presence of security operatives at the point where the dead bodies of the victims were discovered. At that point, I began to ponder on the meaning of life and wonder if some people really believe in the hereafter, well your guess is as good as mine, the desperation for affluence and get money rich syndrome has eroded the values we place on our fellow being. If the gods/deities have decided not to accept goats, pigeons, cows, white garments, palm-oil, bitter kola, kola nuts, salt and pepper anymore, why can’t the gods/deities ask for Ferrari, private jets, a mansion, gold/silver, and all other luxury of life instead of human parts and bloods? Even God Almighty does not ask for our blood for atonement or At-Thawba. It’s really high time we define how to restructure our security apparatus and establish intelligence resource centers across every community in Nigeria.

As a final point, if these ugly occurrences are not nipped in the bud, we might start to witness daylight snatching of persons for ritual purposes in the public glare and nobody would still not “GIVE A DAMN” (apology to Mr. President for using that phrase without his permission).

‘Lekan Olanite

Lekanolanite@gmail.com

08034201291.
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[b]AKURE — Tongues are wagging in Arigidi Akoko in Akoko North West area of Ondo State over the chopping off of the head of a woman for alleged ritual purpose. Already, Police authorities in the state have ordered full blown investigation into the incident which is causing panic in the community. Police sources said the headless body of the deceased was found along old Ogbagi/Arigidi Akoko road at about 9pm on Saturday. It was gathered that the deceased body, between 25 to 30 years, was discovered by a passerby who raised alarm and the Police were invited. Consequently, a team of detectives under the command of ASP Ezeala Obiora visited the scene and alleged that the corpse must have been dropped by suspected ritualists. Vanguard learnt that photographs of the body was taken after which the corpse was removed and deposited at the specialist hospital mortuary in Ikare. Contacted, the police image maker in the state, Wole Ogodo, confirmed the incident, saying: “The Policemen at Irun Akoko division were hinted on Saturday morning that there was an headless body of a lady whose name and address are yet to be known and suspected to be between 25 to 30 years of age lying along Old Ogbagi/Arigidi Akoko road.” Ogodo said investigation is on to unveil those behind the dastardly act.
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[b]Yoruba Man
immigrant stole the identities of 350 people to claim £1.3million in bogus tax credits in the largest benefit scam of its kind.

Olaide Taiwo, 35, hijacked the identities while working as a security guard for a number of large national companies.

He then used the names to claim tens of thousands in working tax credits.

This week he was jailed for eight and a half years – the highest ever sentence for tax credit fraud.

Taiwo is understood to have arrived illegally in Britain in 2003 with his wife. Although three applications to stay in the UK failed, in 2005 he was granted discretionary leave to remain.

It was during this period that his scam began. The father-of-two submitted more than 300 fraudulent tax credit claims between June 2004 and July 2008 worth over £1million.

When he was arrested, investigators found an ‘identity thieves’ paradise’, with stacks of fake passports and driving licences and £70,000 in cash lying around his council flat in Camberwell, South-East London.

The property was littered with paperwork detailing the names, addresses and national insurance numbers of hundreds of people which he had taken from employee payroll records at dozens of companies around London where he had worked as a security guard.

They also found templates for making false passports, birth certificates, NHS cards and driving licences.

Taiwo used the identities to open hundreds of bank accounts for the benefits to be paid into, but HM Revenue & Customs became suspicious about the multiple tax credit applications and arrested him in July 2015.

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[b] Yorubas jailed for £1m fraud in London
2015


Three men have been‎ jailed at the Southwark Crown Court in London for a combined sixteen-and-a-half years for trying to steal over £1 million in tax repayments by setting up thousands of bogus HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) accounts online.

Saheed Oyeneye, Oluwakemi Adesaogun and Rasaq Omotunde, all from South East London, used stolen and fabricated data – including the names of sports personalities and deceased children – to set up thousands of bogus online VAT and Self Assessment accounts with the intention of stealing tax repayments from the public purse.
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Caught on camera leaving an Internet Cafe in Woolwich

Most of the attempts were unsuccessful, as HMRC identified the bogus accounts early on. However, when money was paid out, the trio banked the proceeds in one of hundreds of bank accounts under their control. Investigators discovered the personal details of over 200 deceased children were stored on computers recovered during searches of the defendants’ properties.

At the peak of the fraud, the trio used more than 20 internet cafes to register up to 310 new accounts a day.

Saheed Oyeneye, 34, of Lullingstone Lane, Catford pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud by false representation. He was sentenced to five years in prison.
Saheed Oyeneye



Oluwakemi Adesaogun, 38, of Antelope Road, Woolwich pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud by false representation. He was sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison.


Oluwakemi Adesaogun

Rasaq Omotunde, 38, of Winchfield Road, Sydenham was found guilty of conspiracy to commit fraud by false representation. He was sentenced to six years in prison.
Rasaq Omotunde



Christopher Gill, Assistant Director, Criminal Investigation, HMRC, ‎said: “This trio thought they were running a high-tech and sophisticated fraud using a series of addresses and internet cafes to set up accounts using stolen data. They bombarded the system with applications for tax repayments from these fake accounts, in the hope of getting rich quick.

“These fraudsters thought the anonymity of the internet would protect them. This case demonstrates that that we can and will track down and prosecute those who attack our online systems.

"This was nothing but a common repayment fraud attempt which our systems quickly identified as bogus. HMRC shuts down the vast majority of bogus repayment applications.”

HMRC is continuously reviewing and updating its systems to mitigate against these types of frauds. Its systems are resilient and the majority of bogus accounts are identified early on.

The case follows the successful conviction of Mutiu Oladele Lawal and Saheed Dolapo Sanni, who obtained stolen data from Oyeneye.

Confiscation proceedings ‎to recover the proceeds of this crime are underway.
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[b] Yoruba man jailed over ID fraud scam

Updated 22:52, 2 July 2015
By GetSurrey
A NIGERIAN man who lived in Warlingham has been jailed for 21 months for his part in a multi-million pound identity fraud scam.


Samuel Abioje

A NIGERIAN man who came into the UK on a student visa and moved into a home in Warlingham has been jailed for 21 months for his part in a multi-million pound identity fraud scam.

Samuel Abioje, 23, formerly of Hamsey Green Gardens, was found guilty of VAT offences following a three-week trial at Woolwich Crown Court and was sentenced on Thursday.

He and another man - Gbenga Abimbola, 32, formerly of Oslac Road, Catford, south-east London - were both charged with conspiracy to obtain tax credits and VAT repayments contrary to the Criminal Law Act 1977.

Abimola pleaded guilty to both offences and was jailed for four years. Abioje was acquitted of the tax credit offence.

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) said a 12-month operation found that information on 900 people had been obtained, with evidence of false tax Self Assessment and VAT claims for bogus companies uncovered by investigators.

False bank accounts were set up to reclaim Gift Aid - the tax that can be claimed back by charities on donations - with cash then withdrawn and either spent or sent to Nigeria.

Nick Burriss, assistant director of criminal investigation for HMRC, said: “This was an organised criminal attack against the taxpayer which sought to ruthlessly abuse tax systems designed to protect some of the most vulnerable members of society, as well as hijacking the identities of hundreds of innocent people to allow the crime to be carried out.

“Our investigations proved they had already stolen £340,000 and were planning to steal a further £5m."

HMRC said investigations were continuing and further arrests were anticipated.

The court recommended Abioje and Abimbola should both be deported at the end of their sentences.
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[b]CAR DEALER ALLEGES ABDUCTION INTO US , SUES NIGERIA AND US

Car dealer alleges abduction, sues Nigeria, U.S

By Gbolahan Gbadamosi, Judicial Correspondent

LEGAL pressures to force the Federal Government and United States to return a
car dealer, Alhaji Lanre Shittu, who was recently taken out of the country
commences this week before the District Court of New York and Federal High
Court, Abuja.

According to his lawyer, Mr. Mike Okoye, "it is as clear as day follows the
night that Alhaji Lanre Shittu was abducted and taken to the U.S in
collaboration with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), American
Drug Enforcement Administration and American marines stationed at the airport
fully armed on Monday, November 27, 2000."

He added that his client, along with three others, appeared before the U.S
court last Thursday and the next appearance will be on Friday.

"Already, we have commenced proceedings in conjunction with our associates in
the U.S. The court will be urged to hold that the District Court of New York
lacks the jurisdiction to entertain the matter because both countries have
violated the treaty on extradition which they agreed to be binding on them,"
he said.

Also today, before Mr. Justice Okechukwu Okeke at Abuja, Okoye will commence
the argument on the motion on notice asking the court to direct the
Attorney-General of the Federation or its agents "to repatriate Alhaji Lanre
Shittu and produce him before this honourable court pending the hearing and
determination of this suit."

Besides, he will press for the commencement of proceedings against the
chairman of NDLEA Alhaji Bello Lafiaji and the Director of Public Prosecution
Mr. Femi Fatoba "for their flagrant disobedience and disrespect of the orders
of this honourable court."

Richard Shittu, Lanre's brother deposed to a 20-paragraph affidavit in support
of the motion where he averred that "Alhaji Lanre Shittu has been abducted
from his native country, Nigeria, in flagrant violation and in utter disregard
to the proceeding and orders of this honourable court."

Narrating how his brother was "abducted," he said that on his return from one
of the court proceedings at Abuja on November 27, he invited Alhaji Shittu in
company of Mrs. Shittu where he (Alhaji Shittu) told them that he got
information from NDLEA operatives that NDLEA had concluded plans with some
American DEA agents to abduct him to the U.S.

"That minutes thereafter, we saw the applicant, Alhaji Lanre Shittu being
chained in hands and legs while screaming for help, we also noticed that the
Americans who had earlier on identified themselves to us, saying to him, we
will inject you if you do not co-operate in this matter," he averred.

Richard further deposed that, when his brother was driven out of NDLEA's Shaw
Road, he and Mrs. Shittu "drove in pursuit to know where the applicant was
being taken to and we ended up at the Lagos International Airport, where I saw
the applicant being disembarked at a distance. I also saw the NDLEA agents and
the American DEA agents bundling the applicant into an aircraft."

Corroborating this averment, Okoye told The Guardian that unlike in Nigeria,
his client has access to telephone facilities where he narrated how he was
abducted.

Shittu was reported to have told him that DEA officials confirmed that the
decision to take him away had the approval of the Presidency, which made him
(Shittu) to accept his fate.

Okoye, however, believes that "Shittu will definitely get bail and return to
Nigeria because the U.S government affords protection to other citizens even
Nigerian unlike Nigerian government which will sell you as if one were in the
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"The question that bothers my mind, is how those who claimed they have
suffered injustice in the hands of military can turn around to mete injustice
to their own citizens whom they owe a duty to protect," he queried.

He asked: "Was it too much for our government to allow for due process to take
its course? Where lies our sovereignty where U.S Airforce plane can land in
Nigeria and remove its citizen to U.S. It is obvious that Nigeria and U.S are
in violation of the extradiction treaty which is binding on all persons and
sovereign nations."

[b]FBI wants 26-year old Nigerian scammer

By Elor Nkereuwem

January 18, 2015 02:34AM
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has demanded the extradition of a 26-year old Nigerian, Olaniyi Makinde, in connection with e-mail scams currently valued at about USD800,000.

A source at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said the FBI is particularly interested in Mr. Makinde, who is currently standing trial in Ondo State, because of the peculiarity of the scam method which involved remotely breaking into the accounts system of an online payroll company in California, Intuit Inc.

When contacted, the spokesperson of the EFCC, Femi Babafemi, declined to speak in details about the case but our source also said that the EFCC and the FBI have been working together on this case since last year adding that while the FBI would like to try Mr. Makinde in the US, the EFCC want him tried in Nigeria.

Amongs other charges in the 23-count charge brought against the 26-year old, the EFCC said that Mr. Makinde managed to manipulate the American online payroll system to deposit cash in his Intercontinental and Ecobank accounts in Nigeria.

“He installed malicious codes in several victims’ personal computers with which he fraudulently stole their bank information to steal $600, 000,” an official document obtained by NEXT said.

“Because of that boy, three FBI agents came to Nigeria in October. They wanted to see the person that could carry out this deal offshore,” our source at the EFCC said.

The accused, Mr. Makinde, who also goes by the aliases Olaniyi James and Andrea Bradley, recently graduated from the University of Ado Ekiti with a degree in Economics and is scheduled to take part in the compulsory National Youth Service scheme.

He however remains in the custody of Nigeria’s anti-graft agency which said that if convicted of the over 20 count charges brought against him, Mr. Makinde could serve as much as 60 years in jail.
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