Man impersonates Atiku’s aide, swindles 50
The Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) said yesterday it had arrested one Aminu Ahmed Yerima, who was claiming to be former vice president Atiku Abubakar’s aide on Facebook, to swindle unsuspecting members of the public.
Aminu was arrested in his home in Kano after IGP Ibrahim Idris instructed the Commander of IRT, Abba Kyari, to investigate the matter when the news got to him.
Agraduate of Public Health, Madonna University, Okija, Anambra State, Mr. Alvintakon Otareh, has won the cooking competition of the maiden iCreate Skill Fest, a technical and vocational skill competition titled ‘The Olympics of Technical Skills’ to empower youths to be entrepreneurs.
Otareh was followed by a female runner-up, Ms. Joy Onoseigbuan
A top police source said during interrogation, Aminu admitted swindling over 50 persons on Facebook. He hails from Jada Local Government Area of Adamawa State, same as the former vice president.
Police said he had fleeced his victims of large sums of money, running into millions of naira.
He ran into trouble when two of his female victims petitioned the IGP detailing how they were defrauded to the tune of N5million.
The 29-year-old said: “I obtained a master’s degree from Danladi and Mr. Orbigele Phoebe who emerged third. They won N300, 000, N200, 000 and N100, 000 respectively and were also announced as the brand ambassador of iCreate Africa, BON Hotel and Cachez Design Abuja.
The cooking competition involve the use of local dishes condiments to prepare dishes.
Otareh told Daily Trust that despite his professional calling, he was a great cook and also to prove the University of Ghana, Accra in 2014, and my bachelor’s degree from the Federal University Yola, Adamawa State in 2010. I went into fraud in 2016 after I could not secure a job, and I was equally duped by someone on Facebook who wanted to link me up to a sugar mummy. The man who swindled me said the sugar mummy would pay me for sex. The fraudsters took N30,000 from me and blocked me from communicating with him on Facebook. Then I thought I could do same and make some money since I had no job.” that cooking is not a women world.
The CEO of iCreate Africe, Mr. Bright Jaja, said the initiative, held in Abuja in October 26-27, was to promote skills development and prepare the youth workforce for the future.
The competition saw over 150 Nigerians competing for 17 skills including catering, dress making, painting, tailoring, art, photography, web design, app development and graphics design, among others.