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A Nigerian priest and his accomplice have been arrested in India for ATM cloning
A Nigerian National who had previously served as a priest at a church in Greater Noida has been arrested. He was arrested alongside his accomplice, also from Nigeria, for cloning several plastic cards by fixing secret cameras and skimming devices in ATMs in Delhi.
The two Nigerians were arrested after they were chased near the D1 market in South Delhi’s Vasant Kunj on Friday. They found on them 37 cards that had already been cloned, 10 blank cards, and many devices used to carry out the fraud, reported the deputy commissioner of police (south-west), Devender Arya.
The arrested men were identified as Isaiah Oluwatoyin, 46, and his accomplice, Nosa Tony, 43, who had been promised 2% of all proceeds from the illegal business.
Isaiah has been in India since 2012 on a medical visa, however, he’s been living on an expired visa. Items recovered from him include two passports with different names and numbers with Isaiah’s number.
The deputy commissioner of police hinted that having overstayed his stay, Isaiah tried exporting hair, outside his 2-years at the Greater Noida church; he came in contact with a Bulgarian, Eris, at the airport in 2018.
“The Nigerian learnt card cloning from Eris. They bought a skimming device from an e-commerce platform and got other gadgets from other sources,” Devender said
The culprits would fix the spy camera and a skimming device in unguarded ATMs in Delhi. They would get the data from a card into the skimming device, which would be transferred into a blank card. The spy camera helped Isaiah know the PINS of the cards, reported the police
The police reported that Tony, who has been living in Gurugram since 2018 on a business visa would help to discreetly withdraw the cash from ATMs or spend the money for online purchases.
They were apprehended on their way to commit a crime, Eris is still on the run.
The NBA All-Star game has now to be called The Kobe Bryant MVP Award. NBA commissioner, Adam Silver made this announcement on Saturday 15th February.
The Kobe Bryant MVP Award will be given this Sunday at the closing of this year’s All-Star Game in Chicago. Both teams will be captained by Giannis Antetokounmpo and Lebron James respectively. Team Lebron will put on No 2 and team Giannis will put on No 24. These two numbers were worn by Gianna, Kobe’s daughter and Kobe Bryant.
Recall that Kobe won the All-Star Game MVP in 2002, 2007, 2009, and 2011. Also, he played as the youngest player to feature in the All-Star Game at 19 in 1998.
Modibbo Kawu, the DG of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, has been put on suspension by President Buhari. This came following his corruption charges by the Independent Corrupt Practices, ICPC.
This development was confirmed by Armstrong Idachaba, NBC’s Director of Broadcast Monitoring. Further, the most senior director in the commission has been directed to take over from Modibbo Kawu.
Modibbo Kawu is currently facing a 12-count charge bordering on money laundering, abuse of office, and misleading a public officer with the intent of defrauding the government.
So, this contravenes Section 26 (1) (c) of the Corrupt Practices and other Related Offenses Act 2000 and punishable under Section 19 of the same Act.
Beisdes, Modibbo was first arraigned in May 2019 over the alleged misappropriation of N 2.5 billion for the digital switch-over (DSO) program of the government.
The Health Ministry in Egypt has confirmed the first case of the deadly Coronavirus. The authorities made this disclosure on Friday 14th February in a press release. They said the World Health Organization has been informed and the patient is in isolation for monitoring and treatment.
The patient’s nationality was not given. However, Egypt is the 28th country in the world to record Coronavirus and the first in Africa.
So, over 64,000 cases of the Coronavirus have been diagnosed around the world and 1,363 persons have been confirmed dead since its outbreak in Wuhan, China
