{"id":68219,"date":"2025-06-16T12:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T12:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=68219"},"modified":"2025-06-16T12:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T12:09:07","slug":"yahoo-boys-tarnishing-nigerias-image-globally-efcc-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/16\/yahoo-boys-tarnishing-nigerias-image-globally-efcc-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo Boys Tarnishing Nigeria\u2019s Image Globally -EFCC Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has condemned the activities of internet fraudsters, popularly called Yahoo Yahoo boys, describing them as a source of national shame.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a media briefing in Abuja on Monday, Olukoyede said Nigerians are now subjected to suspicion abroad because of the global notoriety of online fraud originating from the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you travel with a green passport, immigration officers treat you with suspicion. That\u2019s a national embarrassment caused by Yahoo boys,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He warned that the activities of these fraudsters now extend beyond cybercrime, alleging links to kidnapping, banditry, ritual killings, and money laundering for politically exposed persons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA 22-year-old we arrested had laundered over N5 billion in 18 months for top officials. Some of these boys open crypto wallets to move stolen government funds abroad. They buy luxury assets and live lavishly without ever working legitimately,\u201d Olukoyede said.<\/p>\n<p>He also cited a decline in the value of education, lamenting that students now leave school early to engage in cybercrime.<\/p>\n<p>Olukoyede noted that the EFCC recovered over N365.4 billion and secured 4,111 convictions in 2024, promising to surpass those achievements in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere &nbsp; Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has condemned the activities of internet fraudsters, popularly called Yahoo Yahoo boys, describing them as a source of national shame. Speaking during a media briefing in Abuja on Monday, Olukoyede said Nigerians are now subjected to suspicion abroad because of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":68220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[223],"class_list":["post-68219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-efcc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68221,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68219\/revisions\/68221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}