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EFCC Arrests Driver” For Alleged $17.5m Advance Fee Fraud In Lagos

EFCC Arrests “Driver” For Alleged $17.5m Advance Fee Fraud In Lagos Operatives of the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested a suspected fraudster, Olabanji Aluko, for an alleged  $17.5m advance fee fraud. Aluko, who claimed to be a driver, was arrested on Wednesday,  September 8, 2022,  at a popular eatery in Falomo, Ikoyi, Lagos, where he had arranged a meeting with a petitioner, Col. Remi Abdulrahman Adeyemo (retd.). Adeyemo, in his statement to the EFCC, claimed that he received a phone call from a man,  simply identified as Ojo, who claimed to have known him some years back. Ojo, according to him, claimed that his son had initiated a divorce process in the United States of America,  USA,  and wanted to sell his properties to avoid losing them to his wife in the end. He further alleged that Ojo requested his assistance regarding receiving the said sum, being proceeds of the sale of his son’s properties i...

HOW ARABS CAME TO NORTHERN PART OF AFRICA TO CHANGED THEIR IDENTITY

HOW ARABS CAME TO NORTHERN PART OF AFRICA TO CHANGED THEIR IDENTITY. Arab slavery had already begun in Africa more than 700 years before the European transatlantic slave trade. The slave trade began when the Arabs invaded North Africa for the first time in the 7th century AD. The first Arab entry into Africa was through Egypt. An Arab military general named General Amir Aben Alas invaded Egypt in December 639 AD. Amir had successfully conquered Egypt and went ahead and conquered other places such as Tunisia and western Libya. Once these areas had been completely conquered by the Arabs, they imposed tributes of 360 slaves in all regions they occupied and controlled. With this slave trade in Africa, North Africans were Islamized by their Arab slave masters. Remember that every time you see a modern Egyptian claim to be of North African origin