Two friends arrested for extorting N1.5M to one job seeker
Niger State Police Command has apprehended Elijah Olawale, 40, from Kwara State, and Timothy Oyewole, 25, of Ede in Osun State, for allegedly duping one Mr George Elada of the National Examination Council’s headquarters, Minna, and other job seekers of the sum of N1.5m. It was learnt that the suspects deceived their desperate victims with claims that they could get them jobs at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Kaduna. The victims were said to have given Olawale and Oyewole the sum of N1.5m to facilitate their employment by the NNPC. The police said Oyewole posed as the Head of Department, Human Resources, NNPC, Kaduna and promised to offer the victims appointments in the corporation. Northern City News gathered that that the two-man gang had been duping unsuspected persons in the state on the pretence that they would help them secure employment. Olawale, who claimed to be a self-employed events manager, told our correspondent that he was not making enough money to ca...