NIGERIAN MAKES U.S MOST WANTED LIST OVER $1M FRAUD. (PHOTO).

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 Nigerian makes US Most Wanted List over $1m fraud A Nigerian, Onoriode Ezewu, has been named on the United States Department of Labour’s first-ever Most Wanted List over allegations of money laundering involving fraudulent unemployment benefit claims worth more than $1m. The department’s Office of Inspector General unveiled the list on its website on Wednesday, naming 16 fugitives wanted in cases involving alleged fraud, identity theft, money laundering, labour trafficking and other offences. According to the agency, the cases collectively involve more than $55m allegedly stolen from American taxpayers. Ezewu’s profile on the department’s website identifies him as wanted for concealment money laundering and states that he is believed to be residing in Nigeria. “In January 2021, Ezewu was charged with 15 counts of concealment money laundering tied to fraudulent UI and Pandemic Unemployment Assistance claims filed using stolen identities, in a scheme exceeding $1 million that also t...

I DON'T IDENTIFY AS NIGERIAN - KEMI BADENOCH. (PHOTO).


 I DON'T IDENTIFY AS NIGERIAN - KEMI BADENOCH


British Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has disclosed that she no longer identifies as a Nigerian and has not renewed her Nigerian passport in 20 years.


“I have not renewed my Nigerian passport, I think, not since the early 2000," she said. “I don’t identify with it any more. Most of my life has been in the UK and I’ve just never felt the need to.”


Badenoch said she was born in the UK and is Nigerian by ancestry, but she has never really identified with the country even though she lived in Lagos State for more 10 years. 


“But home is where my now family is, and my now family is my children, it’s my husband and my brother and his children, in-laws. The Conservative Party is very much part of my family, my extended family, I call it.”

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