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Adamawa police command has arrested one Ibrahim Muhammadu for allegedly conspiring with another man to set ablaze a newly married woman and her husband because she jilted him. The police said the suspect from Gadawaliwol in Jabbi Lamba, Girei Local Government Area, hired someone to set the couple on fire on September 6, barely two weeks after their wedding. The woman died on Saturday September 10, due to severe burns while the man is still receiving treatment in the hospital. It was gathered that Ibrahim Muhammadu who is married with four children, fell in love with the deceased and spent about N150, 000 on her after she agreed to marry him. The deceased after allegedly collecting the money, declined the proposal and got married to another suitor: the man currently battling with his life at the hospital.  Angered by this, Muhammadu gave one Ibrahim Savanna N5,000 and four measures of rice to get the couple killed.  After collecting the money and the rice, Ibrahim Savanna, arme...

The security agency said the 29-year-old suspect perpetrated the fraud from Nigeria, with the help of co-conspirators in Canada and elsewhere. As contained in a statement by the Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, US Attorney,  Jacqueline Romero  said Obasi has been charged with one count conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, six count of mail fraud, and 16 counts of wire fraud.  How it started:  According to the FBI, Obasi is wanted for operating a multi-faceted scheme that led to illegal attainment of over $31 million, with the largest chunk of the proceeds coming from the State of New York for the intended purchase of ventilators. The suspect, alongside his co-conspirators, initiated the scheme around 2018 by launching a spam email campaign that offered illegitimate “work from home” jobs to the unsuspecting public. Obasi and his co-conspirators from Canada then posed as a representative of a legitimate company, ofte...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that its result viewing (IReV) portal was attacked by hackers from Asia during Ekiti and Osun governorship election.  INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu disclosed this in his keynote address at a stakeholders’ conference on election result management in Abuja on Friday September 9.  Yakubu who stated that INEC recorded several failed attempts to hack the cyber security system of the result viewing portal, also revealed they are working to address other challenges which are administrative in nature. He said;  “Another technical concern for us is the repeated attempts to break through our cyber security system for the portal. “Our engineers reported several cyberattacks on the portal during the Ekiti and Osun governorship elections, some of them from as far as Asia. I am glad to note that all of them failed. “However, while we are confident in the security solutions that we have deployed for IReV and all our web prese...

We killed our friend because he made more money from internet fraud and was always flaunting his success- 28-yr-old suspect confesses A murder suspect, Wahab Hammed, 28, who was recently arrested by men of the Osun state police command, says he conspired with his friend, Adegoke Ayobami, 31, to kill one Oguntade Wasiu because the deceased was making more money than the two of them. While being paraded before newsmen at the state police command on Wednesday, September 7, Hammed said he and Ayobami were friends to the deceased and also engaged in Internet fraud, which fetched Wasiu more money than the two of them. “I am a tailor by profession and I have a shop but I also operate motorcycle for additional income. I am from Modakeke in Adesiyan compound. I also engaged in Internet fraud but I have never hit any money. Wasiu was a friend to Ayobami. I knew him through Ayobami and he was into Internet fraud. He has been into yahoo before our friendship more than a year ago. I and Ayobami kil...

Military Gears, Huge Cash Found In Mamu’s House, Office – DSS In a statement on Thursday in Abuja, DSS spokesperson Peter Afunanya explained that the military gears and cash were among the incriminating items found by operatives who conducted a search of Mamu’s properties.  “So far, appropriate security agencies have executed valid search warrants on Mamu’s residence and office,” he said while giving an update on Mamu’s arrest. “During the processes, incriminating materials including military accouterments were recovered. “Other items include large amounts in different currencies and denominations, as well as financial transaction instruments. While further investigations continue, Mamu will, sure, have a day in court.” Mamu, one of the leading negotiators for the release of victims of the train attack in Kaduna State, is also the spokesman for Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi. He was said to have been arrested on Tuesday by INTERPOL at the Cairo International Airport...