Yahoo Yahoo School Operators and Students Arrested In Benin
Only recently operatives of the Benin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, commenced investigation of 30 suspected internet fraudsters arrested in a Yahoo training School (a.k.a Hustle Kingdom, HK) in Benin City. The suspects, arrested by officers of 4 Brigade, Nigerian Army at their hideout in Benin City, were on Monday April 28, 2025 handed over to the EFCC for further investigation.
At the time of arrest, the Yahoo School has full trappings of a conventional computer school with desktop computers, work stations and other computer accessories. There was also a compartment stocked with various fetish items. Items recovered from the suspects include a Toyota Corolla car, phones, laptops and Mpeg Audio-layer 3, MP3.
Though Dele Oyewale, head of media and publicity, said the suspects will be charged to court as soon as investigations are completed, it would be recalled that soldiers from the 3 Battalion Nigerian Army Barracks at the popular Army Estate, Effurun in Uvwie, Delta State arrested no fewer than 100 youths suspected to be Internet fraudsters as the operatives stormed one HK “Hustle Kingdom” School, a cybercriminal training network school in the metropolis, where intending Internet fraudsters are reportedly trained.
The Army Estate is a highbrow residential Post Service Housing Estate for retired military officers and civilians in Uvwie, Delta State. The magazine Reporter gathered that the suspects were rounded up following intelligence reports on the discovery of an HK (Yahoo training) School within the premises of the Army Estate. And after months of intelligence reports gathering on the activities of the suspects, the military personnel stormed the school and “arrested over one hundred of them.
Charles Okorefe, a university don blame the government for the approval of mushroom training empowerment centers scattered round the country and enjoins the local government as well as the state government to have a data base of all the training institutions including empowerment centres in each local government council while the relevant ministry in the state should conduct constant checks on them. He equally commended the EFCC for taking its’ fight against economic and financial crimes to every nock and crannies including schools.