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EmekaA125:
Most of them are still your people who prefer to live in cheap and shanty apartments.

Armaggedon:
Yoooba people are addicted to borrowing.

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Lagos is smelling.

Managing Director, Lekki Free Zone (LFZ), Bolatito Ajibode has said about $5 billion has been generated as revenue through the zone, with investment ranging from infrastructure to industries and raw materials.

Ajibode disclosed this during a media tour organized by the Nigeria Export Processing Zone Authority NEPZA in Lagos, stating that In terms of revenue to the government, the zone remits pay as you earn tax to the state government, with 3,200 workers coming to the zone each day to earn a living, which is a significant employment opportunities created by the Lekki zones.

According to the MD, “The zone is the largest trade zone with a land area of 3,000 hectares, it currently has 60 enterprises in operation and an additional 30 under construction across various sectors, including manufacturing, real estate, logistics, recreation, and oil and gas.

“The first challenge in that area is the road infrastructure from Lekki to Eleko junction, which has been handled by the Dangote Group and will be completed soon. Another challenge is the devaluation of the naira. We currently sell in dollars, and it has been a bit of a challenge for investors, whether coming in or going out, especially Nigerian investors who buy our lands.

“We have different options for large-scale manufacturers and small retailers, but it’s people who have deep pockets that can come in. Nigerian investors struggle to cough out the money, which is why we have more foreigners here, like 20 to 80 per cent foreigners around the zones.

The Managing Director NEPZA, Olufemi Ogunyemi had earlier disclosed that Nigeria’s free zones, numbering 46 licensed zones in 2022, have provided 38,429 direct employment jobs and an additional 172,930 indirect jobs towards the end of 2023, so far free zones in the country have created an enabling environment aimed at enhancing economic growth and development of export-oriented manufacturing in the non-oil sector of the economy.

Validated:
Op, which university did your father, yes, your father, which university did he attend?
You just come online with borrowed data and write nonsense. Does your father even have a car? How can he when you lot still defecate in public places.

Peter Obi said he built Savannah Bank branch in Enugu, had a supermarket in Nsukka campus, had 3 cars, and lived in his own house when he was a student.

But Here’s a video of Mr Nwodo on his 70th birthday that Obi as a university student and his friend used to come to his house… pic.twitter.com/hjaxn0XHfD

— IyaLode EFUNSETAN 👸🏾 (@absoluteOMP) November 10, 2024

A 40-year-old Nigerian national, Franklin Ikechukwu Nwadialo, was arrested on arrival at an airport in Texas on charges linked to a multi-million-dollar romance fraud scheme.

Nwadialo, indicted in December 2023 by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington, faces 14 counts of wire fraud.

The defendant allegedly scammed victims out of up to $2 million by posing as a romantic partner deployed in the U.S. military.

Nwadialo was traveling from Nigeria when he was taken into custody. He is now set to be transported to the Western District of Washington for arraignment.

In a statement, U.S. Attorney Tessa M. Gorman disclosed the challenges of prosecuting defendants involved in overseas romance scams, stating, “All too often, the defendants in these romance scams are overseas and unreachable by U.S. law enforcement.”

She commended the investigators for their persistence in bringing the defendant to justice.

According to the indictment and criminal complaint filed in the case, Nwadialo allegedly defrauded victims of more than $3.3 million.

Nwadialo used various versions of the name ‘Giovanni” when he met his victims online on websites such as Match, Zoosk, and Christian Café. Nwadialo used false images for his profile and typically told the victims that he was in the military and deployed overseas so he could not meet the victims in person.

Gorman said, "Using these personas, Nwadialo invented many reasons he needed the victims to send him money. In one such case in 2020, he indicated he had been fined by the military for revealing his location to the victim.

"He asked the victim to help him pay the $150,000 fine. In all, that victim was defrauded of at least $2.4 million.”

Meanwhile, a second victim was contacted in 2019 to help move funds from U.S. accounts to accounts controlled by the defendant and his co-schemers.

"In this instance Nwadialo represented that he needed the help moving money in connection with his father’s death. The victim transferred at least $330,000 to the accounts controlled by the defendant,” Gorman said.

Gorman explained that a third victim was defrauded by Nwadialo when he told her that he was investing money for her.

"He claimed that a check she received from another victim was proceeds from her investments and he had her “reinvest” the money in a specific cryptocurrency account that he controlled. The victim transferred at least $270,000 at Nwadialo’s direction,” Gorman said.

According to the statement, in August 2020, Nwadialo defrauded another victim who he met on an online dating site and caused this victim to transfer at least $310,000 by claiming he needed financial assistance, including help paying for his father’s funeral or his son’s school tuition.

"The fourteen counts of wire fraud relate to the communications with Nwadialo and the wiring of funds from victims to the defendant and his co-schemers.

Gorman noted that wire fraud is punishable by up to twenty years in prison.

"The charges contained in the indictment are only allegations. A person is presumed innocent unless and until he or she is proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law,” the statement said.

Gorman further stated that the FBI is investigating the case, which is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Sok Jiang.

The Lagos State Office of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) hereby invites Expressions of Interest from qualified parties for the establishment of Gas- fired Independent Power Plants.

Submit your proposal and join us in shaping the future of the Lagos State's power sector.

Deadline: Friday 22nd, November, 2024.