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Nine Nigerians have been arrested by the United States security agents for defrauding $3.5m from people. Disclosing this in a statement, Mr. Geoffrey S. Berman, the attorney for the southern district of New York, and James C. Spero, special agent in charge of the Tampa, Florida, field office of U.S. immigration and customs enforcement’s Homeland security investigations (“HSI”), said they allegedly committed the fraud through business email compromises, a Russian oil scam, and a romance scam. The statement reads thus, “As alleged, these defendants deployed three different email schemes to…

Patience Odowo, a woman in whose freezer a a six-year old boy, Treasure Akinsohun, was found dead, hours after he was declared missing, has been arrested by police. The freezer was normally used to sell water and soft drinks. The Lagos state police command’s spokesman, DSP Bala Elkana confirmed the arrest on Friday, saying that the corpse had been deposited at the mortuary, while investigation was ongoing. According to Elkana, on April 23, at about 8.30pm, one Eunice Akinsohun of Oyedele Street, Alapere ketu, reported her six-year old son, Treasure…

Three people were feared killed and several others injured, in a fresh violence that rocked Kasuwan Mangani community in Kaduna State. The development forced the state government to impose a 24-hour curfew on Kajuru Local Government Area in order to forestall an escalation of crisis in the area. In its reaction to the latest security threat in the state, Senior Special Assistant to Governor Nasir El-Rufai on Media and Publicity, Samuel Aruwan, said the imposition of curfew on Kajuru was to avert any further breakdown of law and order and…

Police in Benin city, Edo state, have arrested a 26-year-old bricklayer, Kenneth Ofoke, for allegedly selling his six-week-old twin babies for half a million naira. The suspect, who hails from Eboyi State, was said to have sold the infants in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Ofoke was among suspects paraded by the Edo State Commissioner of Police, Mohammed DanMallam, for alleged involvement in various crimes. The police said the suspect had sold four babies before he was arrested, adding that he sold the twin babies for N500,000, and the other two…