One can make a pot of 'delicious' okro soup with half that amount.
Okro-#30,
red oil-#30,
iced fish-#100,
vegetable-#30,
maggi-#10,
other ingredients-#50.
Total-#250.
But OP, what is your definition of delicious?

Very pathetic.Imagine 2 brothers of the same parents dying under the same circumstance. It's only in Naija that one hears this kind of story. Nigerian policemen are all useless.

Umu afo Igbo ana m ekene unu,nke onye chilu, ya zelu. Abu m nwa afo Oba nke di na Idemmili nke Anambra state. Anyi na asi Kee ka ime (how are u), daalu rinne (thank u very much), kachi foo (good night), Ndi Idemili nine na asu ofu asusu (Onitsha dialect).
@DRLulu, obi bu m so anuli ka isi ede asusu Igbo na agbanyeghi na i bu onye Ekpeye (Ahoada) na Rivers state. Nwanne jisie ike. Olisa bi na igwe gozie umu igbo nine ebe obuna fa no.

Maximip:

If we dig deeper into this story, I won't be surprised if the woman is an igbo woman with just a yoruba name.   no offense

Stop exposing your ignorance. You're indeed a big f.o.o.l. If the woman were to be Igbo, Igbos would gladly admit it, but since she is Yoruba, you are here spewing crap 'bout she being an Igbo woman with Yoruba name. You guys will never take responsibility for anything. Mind u, i'm not Igbo.

Wonder what would made a 61 yr old grandma involved in drug trafficking? If it were to be a young man/woman, that is understandable at least, though i'm not in anyway encouraging drug trafficking. This irresponsible woman is a disgrace to her family and Nigeria as a whole. At 61 she is still doing drugs, who knows what she was into when she was younger?

@Chino,take a chill pill bro, i dont like the way you attack others whenever anyone says anything contrary to your own views especially on Anambra related issues. I'm a core Anambra guy myself, but we have to welcome opinion and criticism from others. Like someone rightly said, i think the ready-for-commissioning Asaba airport would negatively affect the construction of the cargo airport. Anambra lost it when the airport was relocated from the original site at Oba to Otuocha and virtually nothing has been done on the new site. So nwanne mmadu welu nwayo.
@topic: Good news! The SE and SS would soon witness economic boom! If only we have a responsible government, the whole country would be rapidly developing and Vision 20:2020 would not be a mirage!!!

World class scam:
Man fools, swindles 7,000 Nigerians over Canadian visa
•Held symposium, got police, court documents to convince
victims
Saturday, September 24, 2011
It was high drama recently in Lagos when over 7000 Nigerians
realized they had fallen prey to the tricks of one Fred Olawale
Makanjuola, owner of Crystal Services, an immigration
consultancy outfit.
Olawale packaged a programme, inviting Nigerians who want to
live and work in Canada to apply. The package he told them was
free and his agency would foot the bill while the applicants would
sign a bond to pay him back twice what he intends to spend. To
further convince them, he involved the services of the police that
provided Character Certificate clearance, the federal high court
where affidavit were obtained, St. Nicholas Hospital and the
National Hospital, Abuja for medical clearance.
Although the package was free, applicants paid at least N50,700
for registration. The victims cut across social and economic strata,
that even the enlightened were part of it. But how won’t one fall
for a trap where the master of the game staged a symposium at
UNILAG, invited people he said were from banks, Immigration,
NDLEA and others to coach the victims on how to travel to Canada
and actualize their dreams while maintaining clean image for
Nigeria.
Even applicants from nearby African countries travelled down to
Nigeria to benefit from this dubious programme.
The bubble burst when the National Agency for Prohibition of
Traffic in Persons (NAPTIP) got letters sometime in June from
applicants trying to confirm whether Crystal Services was not into
human trafficking. The agency discovered that it was a scam and
visited the office at No. 8 Okuneye Avenue, Famous Bus Stop,
Pedro, Shomolu, with a search warrant when Makanjuola refused
to honour their invitation.
Addressing the confused crowd Mr. Josiah Emerole, Head of Lagos
Zonal office, who led the team to break into the office, told the
crowd that it was a scam as they had investigated and discovered
that the house indicated as his address was occupied by a young
couple and his business is not registered. “He honoured our
invitation, sometime in June and we asked him to provide
documents to help us ensure that it was not an agency for human
trafficking. We wrote to him severally and he failed to respond. It
was then that the agency decided to lock the premises and arrest
his secretary, Ronke Adeosun. It is with a search warrant that we
have come to open the office.”
The office was opened and cartons filled with Nigerian passports
were discovered. Emerole who showed the confused crowd the
passports asked them to go as the agency would contact them as
soon as investigation is complete. Meanwhile the victims who still
insist that their visas could still be in their passports besieged the
NAPTIP office in Ikeja. As at Thursday Saturday Sun had reliable
information that about 2000 of the passports that had been
opened, and none had visas. Efforts to get across to NAPTIP failed
as Saturday Sun was informed that a formal statement would be
issued when investigation is complete.
Perfected game
Makanjuola, a 32-year-old man placed an advert late last year on
TV and newspapers wooing interested Nigerians who dream to
travel abroad. Part of his promise was that the agency would bear
the cost of moving them out of the country, if they agree to pay
back with interest after they must have settled into their jobs.
Days after that publication, a crowd besieged his office indicating
interest. Before the advert, he had sold application forms for
N1000 but when he discovered the number of applicants, he
immediately hiked the fee to N50,700. On the sudden increase, he
told the applicants that he wanted to foot the bill for medicals but
the number of persons interested in the programme made it
impossible. According to some of the victims, he explained that
the amount is expected to cover medical clearance and
registration. Still that did not deter the teeming crowd from
picking the forms.
To further convince them that the scam was no scam at all he
directed them to Alagbon police unit in Ikoyi to obtain fingerprint
clearance. He also demanded sworn court affidavit indicating that
the amount spent on each of them is N750,000 and they are to
pay back double in two years.
They also filled a form for traveller’s cheque from GT Bank. He
later organized a symposium to enlighten his victims on what
they are expected to do when they get to Canada. The
symposium held at the UNILAG main auditorium on June 10 and
had one Mrs. D. O. Abidogun, claimed to be an immigration officer
from the Department of Human Trafficking, Dr. Anthony Clerk who
was the MC and one Barrister Odion a GTBank representative.
While it appeared the process was clean, he planted agents to
extort money from applicants with the excuse that they would
put their names in the first batch.
Text messages
To further convince them that he is grounded in his art, he sent
series of texts to applicants to inform them on plans for the trip.
To notify them of the travellers cheques he sent this text: “You are
hereby scheduled for an invitation to apply manually for your
Basic Travel Allowance at Crystal Services. Venue 8 Okuneye
Avenue, Famous bus stop. Date: 2nd August 2011. First session
10am to 12pm. Second session 1-3pm. 3rd session 3.30-4pm. Note
you are to tender the following – your sworn affidavit, 2 passport
photos, invitation sent by Crystal Services (not a forwarded
message)”
When his initial departure date of August 20 was fast
approaching, he sent this: “Thanks once again for believing in our
programme. We are earnestly working towards the success and
reality of our moving schedules, a slight change was made on our
date of departure which was due to the Ramadam season. Our
new date is September 11th and 12th 2011. Note, ensure you get
the carton colour or lace material.”
This came few days after: “Take notice of the under mentioned
dates: 11th day of September: Exhibition at the National Theatre,
12th day of September: Air lifting commences with applicant
registration numbers.13th Day of September: Air lifting continues
to the last registration number, 14th day of September, Foreign
orientation in Dubai for three days: 15th Movement to Manitoba,
Canada: 19th arrival party, 20th day of September Rest day, 21st
to 22nd of September: Registration, assimilation and association.
23rd to 29th day of September training and seminar: 29th of
September confirmation/collection of certificate. 1st of October,
collection of materials, 2nd of October Future begins. Signed
Crystal Services.”
On September 11, dressed in their uniform, his victims who bade
farewell to their families gathered at the National Theatre for the
exhibition and takeoff the next day as planned. About 7000
Nigerians waited anxiously until they received another text
message saying: “We are sincerely sorry for not meeting up with
our exhibition plan as scheduled, we want you to know that the
air lifting is most paramount and that has been our area of
concentration for days now. We therefore, implore you to please
bear with us as we will update you as we progress. Thanks! Pls.
pass this information to as many applicants you have around
you.”
They all dispersed and still the callous scammers sent another
message through their agent for each to pay N2000 to enable
them assist the airline operator to repair the plane. This amount
majority paid into an account before the cat was let out of the
bag – 7000 had been terribly fooled and swindled by one young
man in a grand scam.
Was the Canadian High Commission aware of the plans to issue
work permit to this number of Nigerians? Saturday Sun inquired.
According to their police liaison officer, the High Commission as
far back as May received letters from the victims trying to find out
whether the programme was genuine and they were told that it
was a scam.
One of the letters made available to Saturday Sun, the Deputy
High Commissioner of Canada, in it response to the victim said:
“There is no such programme, and this is a scam. Canada has no
fast-track programmes for immigration or work permits.
Individuals who wish to work in Canada should follow the
instructions and guidelines which can be found on the website at
www.nigeria.gc.ca or www.cic.gc.ca.”
According to the liaison officer, no High Commission appoints
agents outside the commission to run its activities. “Normally
work permits are not given outside the country, the individual
must have acquired a visa that befits that permit.”
When confronted with the allegations that Immigration service
was a part of the scam, Muyiwa Odunubi, Lagos command Public
Relation Officer debunked such allegation insisting that it could be
a case of impersonation. “If any of the victims have a proof that
an immigration officer was involved, let the person come
forward. We need a photograph of the event showing the
immigration officer. Let the victims help us to arrest this
impersonator. We are not aware that such an agency is existing
and did not at any time send a representative.”
Meanwhile Saturday Sun hopes to discover later how Makanjuola
was able to operate an account in a new generation bank with
fake identify in spite of the rules. We also hope to find out why
the police issued fingerprint clearance to more than 7000 persons
without raising an eyebrow and the Federal High Court that
issued same number of affidavits without confirming what all
these were about.
Tales of confused victims
Still finding it difficult to believe that they were defrauded most of
the victims who spoke with Saturday Sun said the programme is
real. They rather blame NAPTIP for destroying their dreams. They
also accused the federal government for failing to protect its
citizens from the fraudster because the agencies they were
referred to failed to alert them that the program was not real.
Emeka Okosun, a final year student of FUTO can’t believe the
outcome. “I was supposed to take aptitude test for a job my
father had arranged. How do I face my father, what will be my
story? I investigated well, I went as far as visiting a native doctor
in Ogun State and he confirmed that it was real. I know it is real,
its NAPTIP that wants to spoil the business.”
Suleiman a businessman in Kano blames the police for failing to
alert them, and said “I can’t believe that I have been defrauded. I
consulted an alfa and he confirmed it.”
Chidi who claimed to have resigned from a job that pays him as
much as N120,000 a month lamented that he sold almost
everything he had to embark on the trip. He claimed to have
given Olawale about N500,000 to ensure that his name is in the
first batch. “I investigated this matter properly. I even went to
GTBank and they confirmed that the travellers cheques had been
processed and handed over to Fred. If a bank as big as GT would
be convinced that this man is real why won’t I believe? If this is
scam then, the bank, police, Federal High Court, Immigration and
even lecturers are part of it. During the symposium at Unilag, a
staff of the bank addressed us on how to use the travellers cheque
when we get to Canada.
The immigration woman told us that it was real. The lecturer that
claimed he came from LASU was there. There was also a
representative from the NDLEA who advised us to stay away from
drugs. I am seriously suspecting that NAPTIP is a spoiler because
Fred refused to play ball.”
Another victim Lukeman Abiodun lamented that Fred collected
money from them and is still withholding their passport. “I am a
master’s degree holder and cannot believe what is happening. I
am sure that this man must have visited the highest juju in
Nigeria to perfect the plan.”
Faniyi Olalekan, is one of the lucky ones who parted with only
N75,000 before he discovered that it was a scam. He wrote a letter
to the embassy that informed him the deal was not clean.
A banker who is yet to come to terms that this is real thanked his
stars that he did not tender his resignation letter before the bad
turn of events. “My sister, I have my resignation letter in my
pocket as we speak. Thank God I did not submit it. Three of my
friends who were affected had resigned.” P

Kini big deal? Is he not a human being like every one of us here? Abeg make una free the guy. Nobody complained about Michelle Obama in that pix someone pasted earlier. Cant u guys see she is bare-footed. Abeg make una go fine work jare, Mscheeeew

OMG! 20,000 abandoned projects? Then how many projects have been completed in this cesspit called Nigeria?

Inspired, pls how much can land me a Volkswagen Jetta 2002 model to PH. All expenses included. Thanks.

Mobile banking? Nothing so special about that. Its been in existence for a long time. Banks like UnionBank, GTB, FirstBank all have their mobile bank applications.

Nobody is saying Onitsha has more building than Lagos, but when it comes to concentration (number of buildings within a given space), then Lagos is no where close to Onitsha. Pls you guys should be civil and stop insulting others and making tribal remarks.

ronkebp:

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plateau state, has shendam, langtang, pankshin, and so on and so forth, those are the ones i can remeber there are many more, so plateau can pass for one of the developed states.

Thanks Ronke for that correction. Yes, those places you mentioned are relatively developed.

Boyloaf:

very silly ibo bois!!

Boyloaf:

very silly ibo bois!!

Guy what's bitting you? No need to start calling names ok. From your posts, one can simply deduce that you're just bittered about Igbos. How can anyone in his right thinking sense say Onitsha is not developed? Onitsha is where you have the highest building concentration in the whole of Africa. BTW, which State are you from?

Boyloaf:

very silly ibo bois!!

Boyloaf:

very silly ibo bois!!

Guy what's bitting you? No need to start calling names ok. From your posts, one can simply deduce that you're just bittered about Igbos. How can anyone in his right thinking sense say Onitsha is not developed? Onitsha is where you have the highest building concentration in the whole of Africa. BTW, which State are you from?

Lagos>Anambra>Ogun>Delta. These states are relatively developed, not just the state capitals. Anambra has 3 main urban cities (@least in Nigerian Standard) with tens of other well developed towns like Obosi, Nkpor,Ogidi,Oba,Ihiala,Amawbia,Nsugbe,Enugwu-Ukwu,Abagana etc. Delta state has Asaba,Warri,Sapele,Agbor,Abraka,Oleh,Umunede etc. As u can see, they're not a one-city state like Rivers,Edo,Ekiti,Plateau etc.

@Musiwa, you are wrong. You claimed that you are an electrical engineer, are electrical engineering and mechanical engineering not related especially in the areas of power generation/distribution. Didnt you do electrical machines in school? Is it not purely a mechanical course? Just STFU if you've got nothing to say!
@ topic, ride on Prof!!!

To be frank, flashing can be very annoying especially when it is done by someone you know can very well afford to call you. There was a number that kept flashing me for a long time and i decided to call,behold it was a friend during my Uni days in Naija,telling me how he got my number from another friend, that he is now a big boy in Abuja blah blah blah,and i was like WTF! You can imagine how pissed off i was throughout that day!

Anambra -18yrs
Rivers-8yrs
Lagos-1yr + 2months
Kwara-1yr.
If waka pass visits are to be included, then it means that i've been to almost all the states in southern Nigeria!

Why are some Yoruba eediots so tribalistic? They've started calling others even when the guy in question is a Yoruba guy. The other day a yoruba guy butchered the wife to death. Just last week a yoruba guy was caught in the US for travelling with a fake ticket, and now London Met arrested yet another Yoruba for fraud in the UK. Now we know who is giving Nigeria bad name abroad.

Maximip:

@ak47mann

You're a silly baboon. So London and India are now the same thing you senseless mofo. WTF cares about what goes on in London. Anybody
can commit any crime in London. U fools go to countries we don't even know exists and commit idiotic crimes there.

Countries where the opportunities for you are not half as much as you have in Nigeria. Daft people.

You are indeed the biggest fooooooool i've come across all my life. So nobody gives a damn what happens in London but everybody wants to know what is happening in India? Where is easier to commit a crime? Is it in a 3rd world country like India or an organised society like the UK? You have exposed how stuuuuupid u are. Cretin like you. Some Nigerians abroad be it Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Bini, Efik, Idoma etc commit crimes. It is fools like you that see everything through tribal lens. F.O.O.L

Ghanaian 'men' are not worth being called men. They are not even ashamed to come out and report spousal abuse. Na im make i trust our Naija men.

E be like say im prick no de work again. . But to be candid, 2face has all it takes to woo any babe, looks,money,fame.

Ever heard of this line: Romance without finance is a menance. Forget that crap 'bout love. Believe me all these peeps shouting luv will be the first to attack their 'sweetheart' when the time comes. 17k a month or approximately $100 without any extra income is not even enough for one person to manage for a month in present day Nigeria no matter how prudent you are. Nlanders pls lets be realistic, this is marriage we are talking 'bout here. What will then happen when the family starts getting bigger? As for the young man, 33yrs is not too old to start something else. He can venture into IT,and believe me in 2yrs time,if he knows his onions,he will have the financial muscle to start up a family.

Got a lovely perfume from my gal, Oh i love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Methink Govs Amaechi of Rivers and Fashola of Lagos deserve a second term. Was in PH and Lagos in my visit to Naija last Dec and there was significant change everywhere. Gov Amaechi has done much in Rivers in areas like education,healthcare,transportation etc. I think Fashola is doing same in Lagos too.

Elections are fast approaching, some state governors would be completing their full tenures while others are seeking for re-election. Which state governor do you think deserve to be re-elected based on his performance in the last four years and who do you think should be booted out?

Pls note that this is not a thread for campaigning for anybody but just for Nairalanders to air their views.

My favourite Igbo is Onitsha and environs (Obosi,Oba,Ogidi etc). Check this out
Ke ife na eme i (what is wrong with you)
Gini na aso i (what is amusing you)

Nnewi Igbo is rather too heavy. O ngunu ka omelu (what has he done)
I love Owerri dialect in music though i dont comprehend more than 70% of what they sing!

Intrepid!:

Why's that joker holding a bible?

Hahahaha, its a bible of course. Na now the guy know say im go read bible. He didn't see that bible passage that says "do not steal" before committing the fraud. They will definitely face the music and this will also serve as a lesson to intending fraudsters.

foreman:

christians and their love of money!

these guys most likely are members of the redeemed christian church of God RCCG.

Point of correction my guy, stealing has nothing to do with ones religion.BTW how did you know the guys are all Christians? Afterall the holy books (Bible, Koran etc) condemned stealing.

Seven staff of Bank PHB are in police custody for allegedly defrauding the bank of N75million.

The suspects include Idowu Makunjuola, Akinwale Olugbemi, Ajunwa Solomion, Peter Tarie, Isaac Ukpe, Kehinde Aiyebodofor and Gabriel Onigboke.Also arrested in connection with the fraud are Abiola Ologodade, Bode Olofin, and Ajayi Abayomi; suspected to be the brain behind the fraud.The suspects were arrested by officers of the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba on January 28, following a complaint by the bank.Spokesperson for the Lagos Police Command, Samuel Jinadu, said the suspects were able to hack into the accounts of customers with a device called the Keylogger.

The scam

According to the police, a Keylogger, popularly known as an extractor, is used by fraudsters to access the passwords of customers and other bank transactions illegally; and at their convenience, they can withdraw huge sum from such accounts.“The kingpin of this syndicate is Ajayi Abayomi, an ex staff of the new generation bank,” said Mr Jinadu. “From our investigations, they specialise in hacking into the account of the bank with the use of a device called keglogger. Ajayi has an insider in the bank who he gives the keylogger to, and he also recruited some beneficiaries who opened accounts with the bank. When the insider studies the modus operandi of the bank and when no one is noticing, the insider will insert the keglogger into the desktops of the staff and extract information from the desktops. They successfully withdrew N75million. The management of the bank noticed that a huge sum was siphoned and they reported to the police.”

The denials

Mr Abayomi, however denied the allegation. “I don’t know anything about this crime, the police is trying to rope me in,” he said. “I got the keylogger through a parcel for some people in the bank, so I don’t know anything about the money.”

Mr Olugbemi, and Administrative Manager of the bank, also said he is innocent.“I am the admin manager at the Surulere Branch of the bank,” he said. “That day, 21st of January, one Isaac, who works with our maintenance department, came to me with a device. He asked me to charge it for him, on my desktop. I went to see our manager and before I came back, I called Isaac to come and collect the device that I was going to the local government council. Shortly after, our corporate auditor called me and asked me about the device. I told him that I was charging it so they said I should follow them to Panti, that I will explain myself there. It was when we got to Panti that I saw the other suspects. There is one man called Alake, who allegedly masterminded this fraud, he can explain better. But as for me, they just asked me to charge the device I never knew it was used for fraud.”

The confession

Mr Ukpe, a maintenance officer with the head office of the bank, said the fraud was well planned. “It was Abayomi that came to me around 15th of December and discussed the keglogger with me,” he said. “He told me to contact somebody working in the bank and I contacted Akin. It was Abayomi and I that went to Akin to give him the device at their Bode Thomas Branch at Surulere, so the fraud was well planned. Abayomi told him to insert the device and he should leave everything to him. We were to get certain percentage if the deal succeeded but now I feel bad about my role in the fraud.”

Mr Jinadu said the suspects will be charged to court soon


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Freewilly:

Ndewo, is oba close to Abatete? I ask becuase I have a class mate form Abatete.

Yeah Oba is close to Abatete, infact a coupla minutes drive. We are in the same local government area- the great IDEMILI LGA.

Representing Oba Idemili LGA Anambra State. Nwanne onwero ife na eme.