The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) on Thursday paraded 10 persons suspected to be yahoo boys for impersonating American soldiers fighting in Afghanistan.

The suspects were paraded at the commission’s head office in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.

Head of operation Nnaghe Obono Itam said the suspects impersonated American soldiers fighting in Afghanistan to defraud American citizens.

Itam said the suspects used American tunes to extort money from their victims and warned the public against releasing their account numbers to persons.

He said: “We have noticed that within the last three months, we have the issue of yahoo yahoo boys who appeared to have resurfaced again.

“I am glad to say that with the partnership of the Federal SARS we were able to apprehend some of them”

“The most interesting aspect of it is that we still find people that fall prey to this scam.

“We have Nigerians who pretended that they are American Soldiers that came from Afghanistan and were talking to the Americans as if they are Americans soliciting for fund”

“They extorted money from them through I-tunes. The kind of the I-tunes is $100. They find it difficult to collect the money from Nigeria but they collect I-tunes from them and dispose it online in dollars”

“We have four of them in our custody. We still have others who pretended to be American soldiers working and talking to their victims that there were lots of mineral deposits such as gold.

“They contact people online in China asking them to come and buy the mineral deposits.

“In Nigerian they collect N5, 000 each from the unsuspecting public, which they receive from banks from Nigeria.”

He said that the Commission made recovery of cash and forfeitures to the tune of N1,674,891,899 , $552,368.55 and 5,225 euros while it secured 33 convictions in the year ending.

A man was allegedly shot dead by vigilante members and secretly buried in Delta state.

According to reports, the deceased identified as Boss Destiny was said to have been returning from a night club in Sapele area in the state, where he had an issue with some persons before he met his untimely death.

It was gathered that the issue was settled by some soldiers and the deceased was on his way home when he was allegedly shot in the chest by some vigilante members in his street.

Reports have it that the security operatives secretly buried the corpse that night to avoid being traced.

A friend of the deceased who was with him that night, reported the matter to his (deceased) family before heading to the police station.

The policemen immediately swung into action and exhumed the corpse of the deceased where it was buried. Some vigilante members were also arrested in the process.

A group of women and men stormed Yaba Market on Saturday to protest harassment in the marketplace. Women who visited the market after the Yaba Market March have now reported a positive change in the behavior of the traders towards female customers.

Majority of the women who shared their testimony on Twitter said the traders behaved themselves and tried not to touch them. Those who tried to touch were cautioned by other traders.

Read some of the tweets below ;

A Nigerian man drowned in a South African beach, as confirmed by the Nigerian Union in South Africa (NUSA).

The Union who announced the death of Mr Udebuani Chidokweanaukwu from Nando in Anambra, disclosed that the Nigerian man drowned in a beach in Swellendam near Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.

The statement issued to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) by Mr Habib Miller, Publicity Secretary of the Union, reads in part;

“With sorrow and heavy heart, we have received the news of the death of Udebuani Chidokweanaukwu from Nando, Anambra State.

“According to the information from an eye witness, Chidikweanaukwu got drowned on the beach at Swellendam on Dec. 17.

“He is survived by his wife and children. NUSA sympathises with his family and friends at this difficult time of grief and pray God comfort them,” he said.