The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said its
collaboration with the Federal Bureau of Investigation has led to
the arrest of a female suspect cyber fraudster in Edo State.
It said the female suspect (names withheld) worked in
collaboration with foreign counterpart in dark web.
Head of Benin Zonal Office who spoke on behalf of Acting
Chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, Muhtar Bello, said the female
suspect was involved in obtaining and stealing people’s
identification information which she forward to her American
collaborators.
Bello said her American collaborators used the information to
file for fraudulent tax return with the Internal Revenue
Service.
He stated that the suspect received her CT through Bitcoin and
about 185 Bitcoin currently worth N656m was traced to her.
The EFCC Zonal head said it independently arrested a
cybercriminal and two siblings involved in Business Email
Compromise (BEC).
Bello outlined their operandi as searching for victims’ email
addresses especially official Business Email addresses; create a
phishing link and compromising the process in order to defraud
unsuspecting victims.
According to him, “The three suspects will have their date in
court soon. We do not want to state the woman’s name so as not to
compromise investigation.
“The Commission is resolute in exterminating cybercrime and
bringing to book all those involved in this despicable
activity.
“As part of our strategic plans to tackle this malaise, the
Benin Zonal Office, from January to date, through intelligence
raided the hideout of internet fraudsters in our jurisdiction-Edo,
Delta and Ondo States.
“These raids led to the arrest of 113 internet fraudsters. While
the prosecution of many of the cases is ongoing in court, we have
so far secured 53 convictions in the period under review.”
Over 30 exotic cars, charms, laptops, mobile phones, flash
drives, according to him, were recovered from the suspects.
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Daily Trust Appoints New Editors
The Board of Directors, Media Trust Limited, publishers of the
Daily Trust newspapers, has announced five new appointments.
The appointments were contained in a statement by the company’s
Chief Executive Officer/ Editor-in-Chief, Mannir Dan Ali.
Among the changes is the promotion of Hamza Idris to the
position of Editor of the Daily Trust. He was until the appointment
the newspaper’s Politics Editor. He succeeds Nasiru L. Abubakar,
who has been elevated to the position Managing Editor.
Abubakar is to be assisted by Nasir Imam, who holds the position
of Deputy Managing Editor.
The Deputy Editor of the Daily Trust is now Stella Iyaji, who,
until this appointment, was the Deputy Editor of the Daily Trust on
Sunday.
Furthermore, the Editor of the Daily Trust on Sunday, Lawan
Danjuma Adamu, is now to function as Editor of both Weekend Titles,
Daily Trust on Saturday and Daily Trust on Sunday.
The erstwhile editor of the Daily Trust on Saturday Abdulkareem
Baba Aminu is now to serve as the Secretary of the Trust Television
implementation committee that is to actualize the national
television license of Media Trust Limited.
Amina Alhassan has also been elevated to the position of Deputy
Editor of the Weekend Titles.
Hamza Idris holds a Bachelor of Arts (B.A) in Mass Communication
from the University of Maiduguri and a Master of Science (M.Sc) in
the same field from the National Open University of Nigeria
(NOUN).
He joined the services of Media Trust Limited in September 2005
as a Reporter/Researcher, and served as a correspondent of the
newspaper in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states. In 2010, he became the
North East Bureau Chief of the newspaper and operated from Daily
Trust’s regional office in Maiduguri. In 2015, he was transferred
to the headquarters in Abuja as Group Politics Editor, a position
he held until his recent appointment.
Hamza is also a member of the Daily Trust Editorial Board, a
Fellow of the International Centre for Journalists (ICFJ, 2013),
Alumnus of Professional Fellows Programme (Washington D.C., 2013),
and Member, Swiss Peace (Switzerland, 2015).
On his part, Nasiru Abubakar was appointed substantive Editor of
Daily Trust in January 2016. Before then he was the Acting Editor
of the paper. He also worked as Deputy Editor and served in various
capacities, including Acting Editor of the Weekly Trust and Deputy
News Editor.
He studied Mass Communication at the Kaduna Polytechnic and
Bayero University, Kano. He commenced his Journalism career as a
stringer with Weekly Trust in 2000, before he was appointed as a
permanent staff on Reporter cadre in 2004.
Abdulkareem Baba Aminu joined the Weekly Trust (now Daily Trust on
Saturday) as a full time reporter in 2003. After a stint as a
reporter, he became the Entertainment Editor and eventually the
editor of the magazine section of the paper.
Baba Aminu became Acting Editor of the paper from late 2008 and
was made substantive Editor in July 2010.
In 2012, he was appointed Creative Editor overseeing all Media
Trust publications, before returning to the Daily Trust on Saturday
as editor in 2014.
Lawan Danjuma Adamu joined the services of Media Trust Limited
in 2009 as a correspondent in Kano. And in 2011, he was posted to
Zamfara State as state correspondent.
He worked there until he was redeployed to Kano as Acting
Regional Editor, to take charge of the Kano Chronicle title and
oversee editorial matters in the North-West.
In 2013, Adamu was appointed Acting Deputy Editor, Sunday Trust,
and in 2016, he was appointed the Editor of Daily Trust on
Sunday.
Adamu graduated with a Second Class (Upper Division) in
Political Science from the Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto in
2002. Before joining Media Trust Limited, he spent eight years in
the Directorate of Army Public Relations (1996 – 2004). He also had
a stint in the National Review magazine as a Senior Staff
Writer.
Miss Iyaji holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in English
Language from the University of Maiduguri and University of Abuja
respectively. After graduating, she served at the Imo Broadcasting
Corporation, Owerri for her NYSC scheme.
She later joined the services of DBN Television, Abuja where she
worked as a Reporter, News Editor and Producer. She also reported
the Police, Judiciary and the Senate. She joined Media Trust
Limited as an Assistant News Editor (States and Regions).
In 2016, she was appointed as Deputy Editor of the Daily Trust
on Sunday, a position she held until her elevation.
Miss Iyaji is also a member of the Daily Trust Editorial
Board.
Amina Alhassan is a graduate of Mass communication from the
Ahmadu Bello University Zaria. She is currently undergoing a
Master’s programme in Conflict, Peace and Strategic Studies at the
Nile University, Abuja. Amina was also a 2010 Journalist of the
Year nominee for the Future Nigeria Awards. She is a 2017 Fellow of
the Wole Soyinka Center for Investigative Journalism Female
Reporters Leadership Programme (FRLP) and a Co-Chair of its alumni.
She is currently the Editor of Tambari Magazine, a Daily Trust
weekly special publication.
The appointments are with immediate effect.