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Ukraine Intensifies Probe Of Nigerian Pastor As Fear Of Discrimination Rises


UKRANIAN police has summoned a famous Nigerian Pastor, Mr. Sunday Adelaja, who pastors the country's biggest church based in Kiev, the capital city, to report for what is feared may be an arrest and detention in a controversial case bordering on racial discrimination and religious victimization, which has been going on for the last three years, Empowered Newswire reports.


Confirming the invitation by the nation's Internal Affairs Ministry in an interview over the weekend, Adelaja said the case for which he is being summoned is about the collapse of a business-King's Capital which was owned by members of his church, but for which he or the church administration had no formal or official relationship.

The Nigerian born, Ukranian pastor, Sunday Adelaja who was described last year by the New York Times as one of the country's "best known public figures" is facing what is seen by many as trumped up charges in a country, where another Nigerian young man was recently charged with attempted murder after he fought to defend himself from the assualt of 4 Ukrainian attackers.

Adelaja who is founder and pastor of what is widely regarded as the largest church in Europe, The Embassy of the Blessed Kingdom of God for All Nations in Kiev, Ukraine spoke in an exclusive chat with Empowered Newswire.

He said he has been summoned by the Ukraine national police, under the former socialist nation's Internal Affairs Ministry to appear on Tuesday August 28 on charges bordering on how members of his church ran a business enterprise King's Capital aground, and also allegations that he is running a crime organization.

That business may have been worth about $100m, according to Adelaja's church reporting on the case.

Dismissing the allegation as mere political charges that bears no resemblance to fact, Adelaja said "in Ukraine you don't have to commit a crime before you are accused, you only have to be targetted."

In the same vein, his attorney, a well-known Ukrainian lawyer, Andrey Fedur stated also that as far as the law is concerned Adelaja " cannot be punished, for he does not have anything to do with this case. The charges are absolutely made up and have no foundation."

According to a New York Times report last year, " Adelaja has built a vast religious organization under the banner of his church, Embassy of God. He has become one of Ukraine’s best known public figures," making him by far a significant leader in the country whose favor politicians have curried in the past causing them to win victories to high public positions.

While Adelaja's political battle has been on for over several years now, since 2009, the invitation to the state police on Tuesday is seen as a heightening of the case, after some members of the church have been detained for over two years now.

Besides the Pastor himself is under constant police surveillance and not allowed to travel out of the country

A media commentator and Washington DC publisher, Dr. Segun Olanipekun writing on the summoning said alongside Adelaja five people have been accused in the church and those have been arrested by the police ahead of Pastor Sunday Adelaja's invitation on Tuesday.

According to Olanipekun, "the church fears that this invitation and the deliberate change of the charge to a criminal one are part of the plot to jail the innocent pastor as he is seen to be a threat to the present government."

The King's Capital was formed by some members of Adelaja's church, but amidst the global economic crisis, the investment company failed and many investors lost a big chunk of money. While there has been no direct link to Pastor Adelaja in the management of the company, besides that the owners are members of the church, the Ukrainian police is said to be insisting on linking Adelaja to the failure of the company and alleging criminal acts against the company.

In previous interviews with the police, Adelaja said his questioners were always asking if he knew the church members who owned the business and he always answered in the affirmative, explaining that he was the target of the whole investigation.

It is in the same country of Ukraine that a Nigerian student Olaolu Sunkanmi Femi has been detained since last November on charges of attempted murder after he fought to defend himself against white attackers.

Media reports said last November "eye witness accounts say Olaolu and his friend who were hurled to the ground and racially abused was able to get up and grab hold of a piece of glass from a broken bottle to use in self-defense.

And quoting Nigerian Embassy officials in Ukraine, reports stated that "it was while he was defending himself that police arrived at the scene and the Nigerian was subsequently arrested and charged with attempted murder of five people," who were the original assailants.

Commenting on that case, Adelaja said, "tales like that were not uncommon in Ukraine, saying "they used to kill Africans like that in the past."

Nigerian Embassy staff are said to be involved in the students case, while Adelaja's trials is also drawing wider international ripples, with many petition drives online fighting the pastor's cause. One of the petitions on ipetition.com titled "Racial and Religious Persecution Against Sunday Adelaja," the petitioners noted that "this is a textbook case of xenophobia and discrimination on religious ground."

In addition that petition also noted that the heightening of the offensive against Adelaja may not be unconnected to the forthcoming elections in the country. According to the petition, the current persecution "is a systemic effort to discredit, persecute and incriminate Pastor Sunday Adelaja from his work as the spiritual leader...in order to dissuade votes in favor of the opposition."

Adelaja himself, while speaking with Empowered Newswire by phone over the weekend acknowledged that there are currently political moves in place trying to negotiate with him.

Said he," they are trying to solve the problem politically, but we can't go public as yet on the terms, they are afraid the people may back the opposition."

Since the country's Orange revolution that spurred it effectively out of communism, Adelaja and his church has become a very critical force in the emergent political landscape of Ukraine. In Kiev, the local Mayor and the city are known to be very friendly with him, while even the country's Attorney-General Mykola Onischyk has been known to speak up for him, defending his rights to innocent presumption until proven guilty.

But it is the Internall Affairs and the police that is being systematically used against the Nigerian-born pastor.

It is well known in Ukraine that in 2004, members of the church took an active part in the events of the orange revolution, which resulted in Pastor Sunday Adelaja being declared a persona non-grata to Russia by then President Vladimir Putin, accused "of being a voice and a herald of western value systems," in the old USSR, Communist state.

Also in 2007, Victor Yushchenko, the former President of Ukraine reportedly informed that the Russian government that Adelaja's church in Ukraine, "is the biggest threat to its political dominance that it held over the country."

http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/newsflash/ukraine-intensifies-probe-of-nigerian-pastor-as-fears-of-discrimination-rises.html

Meanwhile.........

The Cameroonian government has started a massive crackdown on Pentecostal churches in the country as President Paul Biya claims they threaten the security of the country.
The CNN is reporting that Mr Biya has ordered the country’s military to ”permanently shut down all Pentecostal church denominations in the nation’s capital, Yaounde, and the North West Regional capital, Bamenda, which have the largest Christian populations in Cameroon.”
According to the CNN, more than 50 churches have been closed so far with the government aiming to close about a 100.
“We will get rid of all the so-called Christian Pentecostal pastors who misuse the name of Jesus Christ to fake miracles and kill citizens in their churches. They have outstretched their liberty,” Mbu Anthony Lang, a government official in Bamenda, told CNN Wednesday.
Mr. Anthony says of the over 500 Pentecostal churches in country, only 50 are legal.
“I want the government to stop these pastors who use mysterious powers to pull Christians and kill then for more powers. All my children have ran away from the Catholic Church in search for miracles, signs and wonders,” said Mih Theresa whose 9-year-old daughter died last Sunday at the Winners’ Chapel in Bamenda during exorcism to cast out “numerous demons” in control of her life.
The Winners’ Chapel is owned by David Oyedepo and is one of the biggest Pentecostal churches in Nigeria.
Mveng Thomas told the CNN that his marriage ended abruptly after a Pentecostal pastor told his wife to leave. He said the pastor described him as an “unrepentant devil.”
A regional governor, Adolphe, L’Afrique told the CNN that police had arrested a pastor for abducting 30 children in Bamenda. The pastor claimed he wanted to remove the children from bad society, Mr. L’afrique told the CNN.
Government officials also claim that some pastors tell their congregation not to seek professional medical treatment for diseases.
“How can a pastor say the sick needs no medical doctor? We need sanity in our Christian lives,” Nyang Blaise, a youth leader for Biya’s ruling party, CPDM, told CNN.
“My mother’s condition is worsening after doctors confirmed she had cancer. She is dying silently, and yet we cannot persuade her to see a doctor for proper treatment, against her pastor’s wish,” said Deborah Tanyi, whose mother was told by her pastor not to get medical treatment for her cancer.
Pentecostal churches however said the government’s move is driven by “insecurity about the churches criticism of the government.”
On Wednesday, Pentecostal pastors in Bamenda and Douala marched against the government’s crackdown.
“Authorising only the Catholic, Presbyterian, Baptist, Muslim, and a few other churches, is a strict violation of the right to religion,” said Boniface Tum, a Bishop of the Christian Church of God in Yaounde.

http://christiannews.net/2013/08/16/cameroon-government-shuts-down-over-50-pentecostal-churches-plans-to-shutter-100-total/

I dey laff oh! Now those gullible, brainwashed, fake miracle-seeking Nigerians can see how their money is being used. Only non-Nigerian legal systems catch Nigerian thieves. Soon it will be ''like-Ibori-like-Oyedepo''. Chis Okotie, Oyakhilome, Bakare, Adeboye and others should be checked as well.


Meanwhile......................

Now this is front page material


The United Kingdom’s Charity Commission is investigating the U.K. branch of David Oyedepo’s Winner Chapel over the alleged misappropriation of at least £16 million (N4 billion) collected as tithes between 2008 and 2011, the U.K. Guardian is reporting.
Over N250 million (£1 million) of that amount is said to have been repatriated to the Nigeria headquarters of the church between 2009 and 2011, the church’s account shows.
A spokesperson of the charity commission told the Guardian newspapers that investigations “regarding the charity’s management and policies” are on-going.
“We have considered documents and information shared by the trustees and our case is continuing,” she said.
The congregants of the U.K. branch of the church are allegedly given credit cards forms to make donations as they arrive for service. The forms are inscribed with a verse from the Bible’s Book of Corinthians which reads, “God loveth a cheerful giver.”
Documents submitted to the Charity Commission show the parent organisation of the church, £8 million rich World Mission Agency, makes paltry donations to charity causes. Its books shows it donated N2.6 million (£10,500) to Great Ormond Street Children’s hospital and N2.2 million (£9,000) to Christian Aid for the Haiti earthquake appeal and N625, 000 (£2,500) to charities in the Lewisham area of London.
In contrast, it transferred N81.2 million (£324,683) and N165.8 million (£663,532) to world headquarters in Nigeria in 2010 and 2011 respectively. In 2009 and 2010 N48, 000,000 was set aside for “welfare assistance” for unnamed “certain member of the church.”
The Church also claimed it spent N37.25million “for charitable activities in Africa.”
David Oyedepo, who is believed to be the richest pastor in Nigeria, lives a life of opulence. He, through his church, owns at least three private jets and one of the most expensive private universities in the country. The Nigerian headquarters of the church prides itself as having the biggest church auditorium in the world. The auditorium sits over 50,000 congregants.
“All of us have a growing concern about any kind of mercenary response that puts cash at the centre of Christian faith. I challenge any movement, including Winners, to be open and account for its money wherever it goes because it comes originally from hard-working faithful people,” said Joel Edwards, a senior figure in the British evangelical movement and director of the Micah Challenge which is running Exposed, a global anti-corruption campaign directed at churches, business and government.

http://premiumtimesng.com/news/142877-u-k-investigates-winners-chapel-over-alleged-misappropriation-of-n4bn-tithes.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=u-k-investigates-winners-chapel-over-alleged-misappropriation-of-n4bn-tithes

Okiki_Oluwa: My bingo knows that APC is a party of thieves forming saviours. They are painting themselves as if they are better than PDP. Even PDP sef no well.
Ouch!
Which way Nigeria o!
Last Bullet:
Have you eaten? If not, come & take cassava bread & stfu!

I can feed you and your entire family for the next 20 years. Wanna try?

Crackdown on immigration fraud: UK Border Agency arrests 10 Nigerians

on January 26, 2011 / in Headlines 5:00 pm / Comments

By Emeka Aginam
The United Kingdom Border Agency has arrested 10 Nigerians over sham marriages and immigration fraud over the winter, which has so far led to the arrest of over 200 foreign nationals.

With this development, those found guilty, according to UKBA will face imprisonment and deportation.

It would be recalled that since December 2010, British courts have handed out jail sentences totaling over 12 years to Nigerians arrested in these operations.

On 6 December also, Tunde Ayammiyi, 50, and Bukola Arinkanmile, 28, according to the Press and Public Affairs department of the British Deputy High Commission in Lagos were sentenced to 20 months and three years respectively for conspiring to break immigration laws.

Similarly, Victoria Adesola, 34, the statement added, was jailed for two years for her involvement in sham marriage.
“Two fake grooms, Olarotimi Ojugbele, 41, and Idowu Komolafe, 34, were also jailed for 21 months each for their roles in sham marriages. In Belfast, Patrick Ozegebe, 34, was jailed for six months for trying to open a bank account with a false Nigerian passport” the BDHC said in the statement.

The European accomplices of those involved in sham marriages, according to trhe statement by BDHC were also jailed.
Czech ‘brides’ Nadesa Mirgova, 26, Anna Gabcova, 32, Pavel Mirga, 23, Kveta Pokosova, 45 and Czech ‘groom’, Roman Horvath, 35, all received jail sentences ranging from 16 months to 3 years, the statement added.

Simon Peachey, the Regional Director for the UK Border Agency in Africa, said:

“We welcome genuine visitors from Nigeria to the UK, but we will be tough on those who breach their visa conditions, and will seek to remove them from the UK.

We take abuse of the system very seriously. A marriage certificate alone does not give foreign nationals the right to live and work in the UK. Their relationship has to be genuine, otherwise they face prosecution or removal from the UK.”

Those attempting to break the UK’s immigration rules by obtaining a British passport fraudulently face a prison sentence, deportation and potentially being barred from re-entering the UK. A non-EEA national who receives a custodial sentence of 12 months or longer can be considered for deportation after the sentence has been served.”

Damian Green, the UK Immigration Minister, said:“Tackling immigration abuse is at the heart of the Government’s agenda. Those who facilitate sham marriages are breaking the law and will be held accountable for their actions.

“We have made enforcement action against sham marriage a top priority. Where there is evidence to suggest a wedding may not be genuine we will investigate and bring those involved to justice.“
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/01/crackdown-on-immigration-fraud-ukba-arrests-10-nigerians/#sthash.hP46acwG.dpuf

Rogue: Nigerian Samuel Shoyeju was jailed for falsely granting indefinite leave to remain to 44 non-EU residents who were not entitled to stay in the country

A UK Border Agency official who illegally issued scores of visas to immigrants which allowed them indefinite leave to remain in the UK has been jailed for seven years.
Nigerian Samuel Shoyeju was jailed for falsely granting indefinite leave to remain to 44 non-EU residents who were not entitled to stay in the country.

It has also emerged that many of those immigrants who received the visas almost four years ago still remain at large today.

Only 14 of the false letters that Shoyeju issued have been recovered, meaning most of the recipients have not been identified.
In jailing Shoyeju, who worked as a senior immigration officer, Judge Christopher Mitchell said the case threatened to undermine the hard-won reputation for 'probity and honesty' of British civil servants.

He added: 'Actions like yours call into question in the public mind the entire integrity of the immigration system when, at the present time, immigration and immigration decisions are extremely sensitive.'

Basildon Crown Court heard the 'treasured status' allowed immigrants to live, work and claim benefits as well as applying for full British citizenship.
The recipients, who are all believed to be Nigerian, ranged from asylum seekers to those who had already identified as 'overstayers'.

Prosecutor Lucy Kennedy said: 'Not all of those people have been traced.'

She added: 'This case has cost the taxpayer a significant amount of money, both in terms of the investigation and in terms of those who remain in the country untraced.
'He abused the system he was employed to protect and he did so for his own selfish reasons, not out of some misguided sense of altruism.

'It was a breach of trust which will no doubt undermine confidence in public servants employed to protect UK borders.'
Shoyeju, who worked as a line manager in Croydon, amended and destroyed electronic and paper records to cover his tracks.

Problems: Samuel Shoyeju was an immigration officer for the UK Border Agency. Many of those immigrants who received the visas from him are still at large today
He used colleagues' date stamps and accessed secure databases under other people's names to divert attention away from himself.

When his home computer was searched a file called 'Nigerian names' was found, relating to those he planned to grant visas to.

He was able to use a generic computer log-in to transfer secure files from Home Office systems without being identified, Ms Kennedy said.

'That system relies on the integrity of immigration officials themselves,' Ms Kennedy added.

'He had been employed to uphold immigration rules but, using his intricate inside knowledge of the system, he deliberately did the opposite.'

The 53-year-old, of Namur Road, Canvey Island, Essex, admitted misconduct in public office by falsely granting indefinite leave to remain between 2006 and 2007.

Although the prosecution has not been able to prove a financial motive, the court heard thousands of pounds were paid into his bank account during the time of the offence.

Stephen Linehan QC, in mitigation, said that there was not sufficient evidence that Shoyeju had a financial motive and could not be sentenced on that basis.
Judge Christopher Mitchell said: 'An immense amount of public time and money has been spent investigating and preparing this case.'

Shoyeju arrived in the UK in 1988 and was allowed to remain until 1991 as a student.

The married father-of-three was then granted indefinite leave to remain as the spouse of a British citizen and was granted full citizenship in 1996.

He began working as an immigration officer in 2002.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066621/Rogue-Border-Agency-official-granted-treasured-status-44-illegal-immigrants-jailed-SEVEN-years.html#ixzz1erKhy7W5

Rogue: Nigerian Samuel Shoyeju was jailed for falsely granting indefinite leave to remain to 44 non-EU residents who were not entitled to stay in the country

A UK Border Agency official who illegally issued scores of visas to immigrants which allowed them indefinite leave to remain in the UK has been jailed for seven years.
Nigerian Samuel Shoyeju was jailed for falsely granting indefinite leave to remain to 44 non-EU residents who were not entitled to stay in the country.

It has also emerged that many of those immigrants who received the visas almost four years ago still remain at large today.

Only 14 of the false letters that Shoyeju issued have been recovered, meaning most of the recipients have not been identified.
In jailing Shoyeju, who worked as a senior immigration officer, Judge Christopher Mitchell said the case threatened to undermine the hard-won reputation for 'probity and honesty' of British civil servants.

He added: 'Actions like yours call into question in the public mind the entire integrity of the immigration system when, at the present time, immigration and immigration decisions are extremely sensitive.'

Basildon Crown Court heard the 'treasured status' allowed immigrants to live, work and claim benefits as well as applying for full British citizenship.
The recipients, who are all believed to be Nigerian, ranged from asylum seekers to those who had already identified as 'overstayers'.

Prosecutor Lucy Kennedy said: 'Not all of those people have been traced.'

She added: 'This case has cost the taxpayer a significant amount of money, both in terms of the investigation and in terms of those who remain in the country untraced.
'He abused the system he was employed to protect and he did so for his own selfish reasons, not out of some misguided sense of altruism.

'It was a breach of trust which will no doubt undermine confidence in public servants employed to protect UK borders.'
Shoyeju, who worked as a line manager in Croydon, amended and destroyed electronic and paper records to cover his tracks.

Problems: Samuel Shoyeju was an immigration officer for the UK Border Agency. Many of those immigrants who received the visas from him are still at large today
He used colleagues' date stamps and accessed secure databases under other people's names to divert attention away from himself.

When his home computer was searched a file called 'Nigerian names' was found, relating to those he planned to grant visas to.

He was able to use a generic computer log-in to transfer secure files from Home Office systems without being identified, Ms Kennedy said.

'That system relies on the integrity of immigration officials themselves,' Ms Kennedy added.

'He had been employed to uphold immigration rules but, using his intricate inside knowledge of the system, he deliberately did the opposite.'

The 53-year-old, of Namur Road, Canvey Island, Essex, admitted misconduct in public office by falsely granting indefinite leave to remain between 2006 and 2007.

Although the prosecution has not been able to prove a financial motive, the court heard thousands of pounds were paid into his bank account during the time of the offence.

Stephen Linehan QC, in mitigation, said that there was not sufficient evidence that Shoyeju had a financial motive and could not be sentenced on that basis.
Judge Christopher Mitchell said: 'An immense amount of public time and money has been spent investigating and preparing this case.'

Shoyeju arrived in the UK in 1988 and was allowed to remain until 1991 as a student.

The married father-of-three was then granted indefinite leave to remain as the spouse of a British citizen and was granted full citizenship in 1996.

He began working as an immigration officer in 2002.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066621/Rogue-Border-Agency-official-granted-treasured-status-44-illegal-immigrants-jailed-SEVEN-years.html#ixzz1erKhy7W5

Bizarre: Nigerian marries daughter for British visa
19 November, 2009 05:41:00 Reports


shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked


What on earth will make a man marry his daughter? That is the question many are asking a Nigerian Home Office worker who was accused of marrying his own daughter to get her a British visa.

The action already termed an ‘extraordinary scam’ is being investigated by the British Police.

According to the Daily Mail, Jelili Adesanya 54, has lived in Britain for more than 30 years and holds a British passport, but wanted his daughter, her husband and their four sons to join him from Nigeria.

It is expected she would try to remarry her real husband to get them all visas. Adesanya was accused of faking a wedding ceremony complete with a photograph of the happy "couple" which helped fool immigration officials that his daughter, Karimotu Adenike, was really his wife.

Miss Adenike, who is in her mid-30s, was duly granted permission to live in the UK.

They are waiting for her to be granted a permanent right to remain before they undergo a quiet divorce and attempt to bring the rest of her family here.

It is expected she would try to remarry her real husband to get them all visas.

But despite being tipped off two years ago, the Home Office seems to have done nothing to stop the scam by one of its workers.

Until recently, Mr Adesanya was employed as an occupational health nurse for the Home Office, working with immigration officials at Gatwick airport.

A whistleblower sent letters to the High Commission in Lagos and the UK Border Agency including specific details such as names, addresses, passport numbers and even a copy of the wedding photograph.

When there was no response, he sent emails to then Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and ministers Vernon Coaker and Phil Woolas on February 1 this year. He heard nothing.

Mr Adesanya, who came to Britain in 1976, flew back to Nigeria on May 29, 2007, and held the bogus wedding ceremony a few days later at a register office in Ikorodu, Lagos.

A source said: "They paid people to attend the wedding so that the British High Commission in Lagos would believe it was genuine. The commission then gave Karimotu Adenike a two-year settlement visa in October 2007.

"On her settlement visa application form, of course, she did not mention that she already had a husband and four children.

"The date of birth on her Nigerian passport is not her real date of birth."

Miss Adenike is believed to have aged herself by 10 years on her wedding certificate to disguise the age gap with her father.

Although her settlement visa expired in October, she is hoping to be given the right to remain.

David Burrowes, the Conservative MP for Enfield Southgate and Shadow Justice Minister, was also tipped off by the whistleblower and wrote to the Home Office.

This time there was a reply, but it said that although the matter was "under investigation", no further information would be provided because it could "breach of our obligations under the Data Protection Act".

Mr Burrowes told the Mail: "I am very surprised and concerned that no action appears to have been taken, because the allegations are extremely serious."

Mr Adesanya, who lives with his daughter in Dagenham, Essex, vehemently denied the plot and said he had never been questioned about the allegations.

He said: "Married my own daughter? I have never heard anything like this in my life. I deny it. She is my wife, not my daughter."

However, asked to confirm his "wife’s’ date of birth, he said he did not know without checking her passport, and refused to allow her to speak for herself.

Unknown to him, his daughter had confirmed the arrangement when she told a friend she would shortly apply for her own British passport and "divorce daddy".

On Tuesday night Jonathan Sedgwick, from the UK Border Agency, said: "These individuals are already under investigation, and I want to make it clear that abuse of our immigration laws will not be tolerated.

"If we identify marriages which we believe are not genuine, we will challenge them and prosecute where appropriate.

"We are determined to send home any foreign nationals convicted of these types of crimes once they have served their sentences." Culled from Daily Mail

Collins Kola Ayoola, a 32-year-old Nigerian, living in Ballymena, pleaded guilty to fraud at Downpatrick Crown Court.



Ayoola was living in Belfast when he was arrested in 2009 by UK Border Agency officers after he used the false passport to obtain an electoral card, open a number of bank accounts and register a business. His arrest was part of a nationwide operation by officers targeting illegal working, sham marriages, bogus colleges and organized immigration crime.



Ayoola was sentenced to 9 months for 3 counts of possession of false identity cards namely a false Nigerian passport, possession of false documents and seeking leave to remain in the UK by deception.



Earl Aiken, senior investigator, Northern Ireland, UK Border Agency said:



'The UK Border Agency is intensifying enforcement activity to tackle immigration crime and bring individuals to justice.



'We are determined to create a hostile environment which makes it harder than ever for illegal immigrants to come to the UK and put down roots.



'We hope this sentence will send the message that we will find and prosecute anyone who attempts to commit this type of fraud.'



In anther case, a Polish couple involved in sham marriages across the North West were jailed in November, 2011 at Burnley Crown Court.



The partners, who were both arrested in Spencer Road, Bradford, took part in sham marriages to Nigerian nationals and assisted in their unlawful immigration to the UK.



Jozef Badzo, 40, married Mercy Idehen a 44-year-old Nigerian on 6 May 2009 at All Saints Church, Church Street, Clayton le Moors, Lancashire.



Maria Pretczynska, 54 entered into a sham marriage with Lukman Durojaye, 43-year-old Nigerian on 15 December 2008 at St Peters Church, Stockport Road in Levenshulme. She also acted as a witness to Badzo's wedding to Idehen.



On November 17, Pretczynska was sentenced to 16 months after pleading guilty to assisting unlawful immigration and Badzo to 16 months for assisting unlawful immigration and 12 months for perjury - to run concurrent.



Dave Magrath, head of the UK Border Agency immigration crime team in the North West, said:



'These sentences send out a clear message to anyone thinking of taking part in this kind of criminal activity



'We have specialist teams of immigration officers and police working to investigate cases just like this to ensure people are not able to benefit from breaking the UK's immigration laws. Whether you take part in the marriage or arrange for others to stage fake weddings we are determined to track down those involved and bring them to justice.'

http://www.africanoutlookonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3410%3Anigerian-man-caught-with-fake-passportdocuments-at-uk-airport-&Itemid=681

3 Nigerians arrested in the UK in connection with organizing a FAKE marriage

A Nigerian groom picked Celine Dion's song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face to walk down the aisle for a sham marriage to a woman he had met only once before.

Leeds University masters student Jayeola Abiola, 29, first saw Portuguese 'bride' Vania Pinheiro-Fernandes, 29, at the dress rehearsal and struggled to pronounce her name.

But clearly confident he would get away with the con, he planned for the Canadian singer's love song to be blasted out in Hull's Guildhall to cement their bogus life together.

However, UK Border Agency officers had been tipped off and he was arrested before he even made it into the grand 19th century building.

Abiola, 29, of Grafton Street, Hull, and Pinheiro-Fernandes, of Park Hotel, Manchester, pleaded guilty at Hull Crown Court to conspiracy to breach immigration law by arranging a marriage so Abiola could remain in the UK.

Fixer Abiola Kumoye, 34, of Shillingford Road, Manchester, wept in court as he also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to breach immigration law and acquiring criminal property of £2,650, the first part of the fee for the sham marriage.

The court heard how the UK Border Agency had been called by the Hull Registrar who said the couple seemed to barely know each other when they were interviewed at the rehearsal.
One investigator said: 'You can't make it up. They really did pick "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" to be played in the ceremony.

'It shows, even if they never plan to spend their lives together, they have a sense of humour.'
The marriage was to cost £5,000. Around £2,500 was paid in advance, with the rest to be paid on completion.

Abiola's barrister Rodney Ferm told the court: 'He would like to be sentenced today as he is to be deported to Nigeria where he may well have work to go to.

Photo: Jaiyeola Abiola and Fixer Abiola Kumoye

Man jailed after UK Border Agency foils sham marriage

11 June 2010
A bogus groom has been jailed at Leeds Crown Court for 12 months after plotting to stage a sham marriage.
Just days before the planned wedding, 23-year-old Shola Bansi Yaya - a Nigerian illegal immigrant - and his fake bride Adejumoke Ariyeye, 24, were arrested as they arrived at church for a meeting with the vicar. The marriage was stopped after an investigation by the UK Border Agency immigration crime team revealed that fake documents were being used in the marriage plans.
Yaya and Ariyeye, together with 20-year-old Portuguese accomplice Maria Da Grava Correia Tavares Da Silva, were sentenced today for arranging the fake marriage that would have enabled Yaya to apply to take up permanent residence in the UK. Yaya and Da Silva had already pleaded guilty, while Ariyeye, a Nigerian who was in the country legally, was found guilty at court last month.
Yaya was jailed for 12 months. Da Silva and Ariyeye both received suspended 12-month sentences.
The court heard how Yaya, who entered the UK illegally in 2003, approached the vicar at St Peter's Church, Morley, Leeds in October last year to make arrangements to marry Da Silva. However, his marriage application excited the suspicion of the Registrar to the Bishop and Diocese of Wakefield, who reported the marriage request to the UK Border Agency.
Officers from our immigration crime team launched an investigation into the planned marriage and discovered that many of the details and documents supplied by Yaya were falsified, including his UK address and immigration status. The court also heard that the woman Yaya had taken to meet the vicar was not Da Silva, but was Ariyeye who was fraudulently using Da Silva's Portuguese passport.
A wedding date was set for Saturday 12 December 2009, but on Tuesday 8 December a staged meeting with the vicar was arranged by the UK Border Agency. When Yaya and Ariyeye (claiming to be Da Silva) arrived at the church, they were arrested by officers from the immigration crime team. Further investigations by the team enabled them to trace Da Silva to an address in London, where she was arrested on 20 January this year. She admitted becoming involved in the scam after she had been offered £500 in exchange for her identity documents.
In interview, Yaya claimed he was introduced to Da Silva in London and then paid £3,000 to arrange a sham marriage to the Portuguese woman. He claimed that Da Silva had subsequently refused to take part in the marriage unless she was given more money, at which point it was arranged for Ariyeye to act as a stand-in.
Jeremy Oppenheim, regional director for the UK Border Agency, said:
'The UK Border Agency successfully thwarted this attempt to gain illegal residency in the UK by means of a sham marriage. The case demonstrates our determination to take action against those who try to falsify marriages in order to gain entry to the UK.
'We have specialist teams of immigration officers and police working side by side to investigate and prosecute cases just like this and ensuring people are not able to benefit from breaking the UK's immigration laws.'
Detective Inspector Don Newlove of the UK Border Agency immigration crime team said:
'This is one of a number of successful prosecutions into sham marriages carried out by the UK Border Agency North East, Yorkshire and Humberside immigration crime team.
'This clearly demonstrates the effectiveness of police and immigration officers working together to tackle immigration crime.'

24 June 2010

A Nigerian man has been jailed for 18 months after admitting he entered into a sham marriage in a bid to undermine the UK's immigration laws.

Olumuyiwa Otti, 40, pleaded guilty at Coventry Crown Court to a charge of providing a false statement to obtain a marriage certificate and seeking to obtain leave to remain in the UK by deception.

Otti, an illegal entrant to the UK, was arrested by officers from the UK Border Agency's immigration crime team on 7 January 2010 when he reported to a UK Border Agency office in Solihull. He was remanded into custody.

Officers were acting on intelligence that Otti had given a false address to the registrar of St John the Divine Church, Willenhall, Coventry before marrying a French woman at the church on 14 September 2009.

When questioned by UK Border Agency officers the French woman admitted taking part in a sham marriage and that Otti had paid her £3,000 to do so.

Sam Bullimore, UK Border Agency assistant director, said:
'The sentence handed down today shows how seriously we, and the courts, take these kinds of attempts to undermine our immigration laws. We will not tolerate immigration abuse and, as this conviction demonstrates, our immigration crime teams are creating a hostile environment for those who break the immigration laws.

'Sham marriages are not just about getting a ticket to the UK. Offenders are also involved in other forms of criminality. If we uncover marriages that are not genuine, we will challenge them and prosecute where appropriate. Our main aim is to identify those who are the organisers of sham marriages and destroy their criminal business.

'People should be under no illusion that marriage alone is enough to get permission to stay in the UK. Couples must also prove to the UK Border Agency that they have been in a genuine relationship for at least two years.'
Otti's conviction follows that of two other sham marriage offenders at the same court on Friday (18 June).
Olufunke Odunwo was sentenced to 18 months and Jephtah Emmanuel to 12 months.
Both the Nigerians admitted to a charge of conspiring to facilitate a breach of the UK's immigration laws. Odunwo additionally admitted charges of possession of a forged identity document and of providing a false statement to obtain a marriage certificate.
The couple had been arrested by officers from the UK Border Agency's immigration crime team on 4 March outside the Coventry diocesan registrar's as they applied for a common licence to marry.

Any foreign criminal sentenced to more than 12 months in prison for any offence is automatically considered for deportation.

Anyone who suspects someone of committing immigration related crime should contact Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 where anonymity can be assured.

https://www.nairaland.com/1375619/more-than-80-yorubas-uk

See Nairaland bias. Na waoh! Igbos need to go create their own nairaland where they will control what makes it to frontpage. Hehehehe. This is the first time Igbos are caught in sham marriage business in the UK and it made front page. Yorubas have been caught over and over; those news have been posted here over and over and they did not make front page. Even Yorubas marry their own daughters and sisters to enable them either go or stay in the UK.

Let's do some comparative analysis: See sources https://www.nairaland.com/1375619/more-than-80-yorubas-uk

FOUR people have been jailed for more than six years for their part in a sham marriage scam involving Nigerian and Dutch nationals.

The UK Border Agency (UKBA) investigation, working with Essex Police and other forces, was triggered when officers identified the suspicious travel patterns of passengers flying in and out of Stansted and Luton airports on tickets bought by Adeolu Eletu, a 29-year-old Nigerian.

On 10 February, officers from the UK Border Agency’s Immigration Crime Team (East), arrested Daniloush Solano, a 21-year-old Dutch woman, at Luton Airport as she attempted to board a flight to Amsterdam.

Investigations revealed that earlier that day Solano had married Eletu at a church in Wood Green, London.

Eletu was subsequently arrested on February 27 at his home address in Falcon Brae, Livingston.

His Nigerian girlfriend Helen Omoboye, 33, was also arrested.

Sylvernus Ogungbade, a 36-year-old Nigerian, was also arrested on February 10 after officers established that Solano had caught her taxi to Luton Airport from his home in Goldbeater’s Grove, Edgware.

Immigration checks revealed that Ogungbade, who was living alone, had recently applied for a visa on the back of his marriage to a Dutch woman who is still wanted by the UK Border Agency.

On Thursday at Luton Crown Court, Eletu, Ogungbade and Omoboye pleaded guilty to conspiring to breach the UK’s immigration laws. Eletu and Omoboye also pleaded guilty to perjury charges.

Eletu was sentenced to two years eight months, Omoboye was sentenced to 18 months and Ogungbade was sentenced to a year and eight months.

Solano had pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to breach the UK’s immigration laws and perjury at an earlier hearing on June 10. She was sentenced to 12 months.

Detective sergeant Andy Harvey, of Essex Police, said: “We started profiling passengers coming into Stansted Airport who only stayed in the country for 24 hours.

“This included young women coming in from Holland who when stopped and searched were found to be in possession of large sums of money.

“Through further enquiries and good police and partnership work with the UKBA, arrests were made in London and the Home Counties.

“We hope that these prison sentences will send a strong message to anyone else considering attempting to commit crime through Stansted Airport.”

http://www.eveningstar.co.uk/news/four_jailed_for_sham_marriage_scam_1_504714

That includes Buhari, Lai Mohammed, Tinubu, Fashola, Ngige, Okorocha and others.

Muhhehehehe! The man of God has spoken who will unspeak?

GEJ all the way till 2019.

Pastor Tunde Bakare Blasts New APC Party "They Are Bunch Of Looters"

16 August, 2013

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Pastor Tunde Bakare, the founder of the Latter Rain Ministries in a recent interview talks about the newly approved political party in Nigeria, APC.

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The former running mate to General Buhari blasts the member of All Progressives Congress calling them bunch of looters.

Tunde Bakare claims most of the member in this new party are even richer than their states after looting them dry.

Excerpts

You are not sure if you will participate in the 2015 elections?

With who? The collection of rogues, right, left and centre?

Not even with the progressives?

Who are the progressives in Nigeria; mention their names? Are you persuaded that they are progressives,progressive where, taking you where?

The progressives who formed the All Progressive Congress (APC)

If the devil becomes a pastor, Nigerians will attend his church, because they don’t know the true church and they cannot distinguish it from the synagogue of satan.

Some of these governors are far richer than their states, because they are looting their states dry, Tunde Bakare concluded.

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Annual BASE Salary for this job is $130K (apprx 20,670,000 Naira), excluding 401K, health insurance, travel per diems, and other gbedus. Job involved traveling 25% of the time, to different US cities and to other countries, including Nigeria. I don dey ''chop'' money. Hehehehe!!!


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Dear Sir/Madam,
Application to the position of Lead Technical Writer

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Ebonyi should be removed from SE and added to MB

Three ACN state Ekiti, Ogun and Edo, no fit pay. Dead broke, educationally backward states.

Trust the useless semi-trained Yoruba press to undermine Igbo. We are on them henceforth.

ilugunboy: I was in Aba during this man tenure....no governance.....the little that took place was in her mother's house in Aba.

Mr. Sabi Sabi. Check out your grammar now. To think you were correcting people's English on the other thread.
''...this man's tenure....'' is the correct expression. Next time, let people know you studied at the University of Gbongan.

lagcity: grow up.

Falae also called Tinubu a rebellious betrayer. Tinubu is Yoruba leader.

1. Kebbi State: Total population is 3.6 million. As of today, Hausa is estimated to number 3.1 million. Saidu Usman Nassamu Dakinsari, the governor, is Fulani.

2. Sokoto State: Total population is 4.3 million. As of today, Hausa is estimated to number 3.9 million. Aliyu Wamakko, the governor, is Fulani.

3. Zamfara State: Total population is 3.6 million. As of today, Hausa is estimated to number 3.0 million. Abdula’aziz Abubakar Yari, the governor, is Fulani.

4. Kaduna State: Total population is 6.1 million. As of today, Hausa is estimated to number 5.8 million. Mukhtar Yero, the governor, is Fulani.

5. Kano State: Total population is 9.3 million. As of today, Hausa is estimated to number 9.1 million. Rabi’u Musa Kwakwaso, the governor, is Fulani.

6. Kastina State: Total population is 6.4 million. As of today, Hausa is estimated to number 5.9 million. Ibrahim Shema, the governor is Fulani.

7. Jigawa State: Total population is 4.9 million. As of today, Hausa is estimated to number 4.8 million. Sule Lamido, the governor, is Fulani.

The Fulani, through their version of violence Islam, have succeeded in taking over both the political and economic control and command of the Hausaland. They have ensured Hausa children lack access to qualitative education.

A recent survey of North-West Nigeria shows that for every 10 university graduates, all 10 are Fulani. Of the 100 secondary school leavers, polled, only 8 are Hausa, the rest are Fulani. Almajiri is a deliberate policy of the Fulani to keep the Hausa in perpetual misery. We must open up the mind of the Hausa to take over the command and control of the political and economic sphere of their region. The best means of stopping Boko Haram is to tell Hausa to confront Fulani for elective posts. The North-West belongs to them. They must take it back politically. They have got the numbers.

By: Adeyinka Grandson.

Yorubas are betrayers. Tinubu is a Yoruba, hence not surprising that he is a betrayer

Pat Utomi
THE GREAT IROKO JOURNEY’S FORTH
Pat Utomi

Do you see an iroko, not just an iroko but an iroko of Irokos, king of trees rising with its fonts to the tree top levels and doing a jig, a display of the Ulaga dance as the jungle falls silent and Atilogu dancers are flat footed as they watch the Ulaga dance. The great tree whose fall will shake the forest has set flight with the eagles perched on it. The great one was in transition; the big Iroko had embarked on the journey across seven mountains and seven seas to land of his ancestors to join the ages. The immortality of Professor Chinualumogu Achebe long assured, took new meaning as his breather separated from his mortal frame last Thursday.

Three scores plus ten was promised to the normal and ten more for the strong. The great Iroko got the quota for the strong and more, yet he was desired around for longer for the work of noble spirit, of integrity and of courage to voice truth to power was still in high demand.

Now I know it is great privilege that I gave the lecture introducing the lecturer the very last time ‘Ugo nabo’ spoke from the lectern in Nigeria at that nostalgia generating Ahajoku lecture in Owerri. How I remember calling your attention to the collapse of culture in our land and how as victim to the tyranny of drivers’ my unsolicited favorite piece of music from my driver’s preferred radio station was ‘osina nwata bulu ogalanya’ Not much has changed from that time, which is why many wished you were around a little longer to help with the redemption change. But you can lead change from yonder. Afterall Bob Marley’s redemption song continues to set the change for many. How it seems like yesterday, the harmattan winds of 1973/1974 at Nsukka when I watched you almost every morning pack your car by the Ansah building as I walked to my department at Nsukka. It was an American car, I recall, maybe a mercury Monarch. The simplicity of greatness as you came out in short sleeves, so forceful. Who knows if that did not play a role in my unquenched desire for the simple life? The simplicity did not keep us from knowing we were saying good morning routinely to a living legend, the master story teller who let the world know who we were.

Beyond the story you were a soldier, a Buffalo soldier, fighting for our liberation from the bondage of bad leadership. The trouble with Nigeria, you wrote is leadership. Inspired by those words I founded a Centre for Values in Leadership to help young people understand leadership and prepare themselves to be effective in leadership roles.

You have not left us orphans, Even if we feel awed by the challenge. When you wrote Things fall apart we were but toddlers but our country held promise that the contradictions in Things Fall Apart were yielding into a synthesis of forward movement hoped for. But the centre has not managed to hold and things are falling apart such that many say there was a country. But we are a people of hope and trust in the benefits of raising the spirit of iconic souls to the stars and drawing strength from there to reach the stars. So we send your spirit up to the heavenlies on errand for the cause of those for whose sake you stood up your whole adult life in pursuit of justice, integrity in service and generosity in human solidarity.

May your journey into the ages be blessed.

Patrick Okedinachi Utomi
Professor of Political Economy and
Entrepreneurship is founder of the Centre for values in leadership.

teskyg: He is a Yoruba guy.They are dullard.

True talk. Their incompetence has no bounds.

In case you missed this

Why we can’t tax Osun people, by Aregbesola
By Adesoji Adeniyi 21 hours 46 minutes ago
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Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola at the weekend explained why his administration has refused to tax the people.

Aregbesola said his people are very poor and tax would be an unnecessary burden on them.

He spoke at the Banquet Hall of the State House in Osogbo, the state capital, during a dinner with representatives of various financial institutions.

The dinner was part of activities marking the one year anniversary of the Aregbesola administration in office.

The governor urged the institutions to assist in eradicating poverty in the state, assuring them of security and a business friendly environment.

He solicited for funds to finance capital projects and programmes that would improve the state’s economy.

Aregbesola said: “I am in Osun State to eradicate poverty. If you are talking about Unclad poverty, it is here in the state. We can not tax anybody here because we do not want them to die.

“Are we going to tax people waiting to die? We were able to save 13 million in the last year, not through tax, but by blocking leakages in the system. So you bankers have no choice than to help us deliver good governance to the people. We need your support to eradicate poverty.

“I am amused about the uninformed comments of our predecessor in office about the finances of the state. They are confused and cannot comprehend what we are doing because they are not financially literate.

“We have the vision, passion and action. I am here to change the fate of the black man through the various programmes and projects of our unusual and unconventional government.

“My predecessor left the state’s account in a bad state. We met a suffocating loan of N18.3 billion, which the Olagunsoye Oyinlola administration secured in an unprofessional manner.

“But within a year in office, my administration was able to increase the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of the state from N300 million to N600 million and pay the loan through the access of N25 million bond from the bank, with the monthly servicing of less than N100 million, instead of the N800 million used to service the former loan.”

The governor said his administration does not wait for the federal allocation before it pays its workers, adding that any state waiting for it is doomed.

He said states rejected the October allocation because of President Goodluck Jonathan’s decision to deduct some amount from it for the creation of Sovereign Wealth.

Aregbesola said nobody has the right to deduct from any state’s allocation without the governor’s consent.

He advised state governments to exploit other avenues for generating revenue.

Commissioner for Finance, Economic Planning and Budgeting, Dr. wale Bolorunduro said the government plans to increase the IGR to N1 billion next year.

On incessant bank robberies in the state, Bolorunduro said the government has collaborated with security agencies to forestall a recurrence. He said the governor has ordered for five Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs) and established a security trust fund to combat the menace.

Many of the bank executives acknowledged the governor’s passion for development and promised to support his administration.

They include: Ayo Abina, Skye Bank; Elias Akenzua, Zenith Bank; Akinleye Ogunleye, Diamond Bank; and Boyin Oladokun, Unity Bank.


http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/27811-why-we-can%E2%80%99t-tax-osun-people%2C-by-aregbesola.html

Eko Ile: Dumb skull,Osun is primarily an Agric state and the state doesn't run or manage itself, they have civil service, they have commercial activities from tailors, to taxi drivers to mechanics to office workers, accountants, doctors, nurses, lawyers and so on..

Do you really think osun people keep their money and do their banking inside their bedroom and they even buy and sell inside their parlor.

Empty heads and comedians like you shouldn't have access to the internet..

So all Osun indigenes are engaged in agriculture and those other trades you listed more than other states? Per agriculture, is it in their private farms or where? If in their farms, are they more agriculture-inclined than northern states who your fake data claim are the least employed? Are they more traders and crafstmen than Igbos? Abi their own agriculture na golden one? You be proper agutan.Carry your fake data go jump inside lake chad

As was asked by another poster above, where are the banks in Osun compared to many other states? Where are the shops and private businesses in Osun relative to other states?. Where is the great federal presence that employs people in OSUN better than other states? Where in hell is the source of employment in Osun?