No fewer than 11 suspects were arrested during the raid carried out by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on the White Hill Hotel along Shiroro Road in Minna, the Niger State capital.
It was gathered that at least 10 guests suspected to be internet fraudsters, commonly known as yahoo boys, were arrested during the raid, and the suspects were taken to Kaduna by the EFCC operatives.
The spokesman for the EFCC, Dele Oyewale, explained that 11 suspects were arrested contrary to 10 earlier reported.
Oyewale said: “Confirmed. It was a professional operation. 11 suspects were arrested”.
The EFCC spokesman did not provide details of the offences committed by the suspects and declined further comments.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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