{"id":157554,"date":"2019-10-04T15:39:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T14:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=157554"},"modified":"2019-10-04T15:39:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T14:39:29","slug":"efcc-arrests-yahoo-boys-in-lagos-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=157554","title":{"rendered":"EFCC arrests &#8216;Yahoo boys&#8217; in Lagos operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal office, has arrested six suspected internet fraudsters.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by the commission said they were apprehended on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-722283 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/EFCC-arrests-Yahoo-boys-in-Lagos-operation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"777\" height=\"616\"><\/p>\n<p>The suspects are Oluwaseyi Gabriel Obe, Omojuyigbe Paul, Olubodun Victor, Alade Amos Opeyemi, Harry Osaremesin and Osaro Aganwonyi.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-722284\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1570176771_2_EFCC-arrests-Yahoo-boys-in-Lagos-operation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" height=\"1080\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were arrested during a sting operation at the Igando area of Lagos, following intelligence reports received by the Commission about their alleged involvement in the criminal activity.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-722285\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1570176771_3_EFCC-arrests-Yahoo-boys-in-Lagos-operation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" height=\"1080\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cItems recovered from the suspects at the point of arrest include mobile phones, laptops and a car.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suspects will soon be charged to court\u201d, the statement added.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal office, has arrested six suspected internet fraudsters. A statement by the commission said they were apprehended on Thursday. The suspects are Oluwaseyi Gabriel Obe, Omojuyigbe Paul, Olubodun Victor, Alade Amos Opeyemi, Harry Osaremesin and Osaro Aganwonyi. \u201cThey were arrested during a sting operation at the Igando [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[2658],"class_list":["post-157554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-a"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/132606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}