US Mother and Daughter Charged in Nigerian Internet Romance Scam

A Colorado mother and daughter are accused in an internet dating scam spanning 40 countries, in which fake soldiers started relationships with women, then asked them for money, CBS Denver reported.

The victims were allegedly cheated out of more than $1 million.

An indictment from the Colorado Attorney General accuses Tracy and Karen Vasseur of Adams County of being part of a "Nigerian internet romance scam" involving people pretending to be military members serving in Afghanistan.


Tracy, 41, and her mother, Karen, 73, live in Brighton. They allegedly tricked women into relationships and accepted payments via wire over a three-year period.

Prosecutors said six of their victims live in Colorado. Investigators believe there are 374 victims in all, from 41 countries including the United States, CBS Denver reported.

The indictment claims the mother-and-daughter scammers took a percentage of the stolen money and then wired the remaining money to associates in Nigeria.

They allegedly established 20 personal and business bank accounts at 11 local banks for the purposes of laundering stolen money. The business was listed under the name A-Team Distributions Inc. and KKJ Services.

As part of the scheme, Tracy also allegedly used her own 16-year-old daughter to fraudulently receive stolen money and then wire it to Nigeria.

According to CBS Denver, Tracy Vasseur faces up to 205 years in prison if convicted on all counts, and her mother faces up to 172 years behind bars.

Source: CBS News

Pasuma Secures Endorsement Deal With Regal Dry Gin

Only yesterday,top actress Omoni Oboli secured an endorsement deal with Venus range of skin care products and today Fuji artiste, Wasiu Alabi Pasuma has joined the league with a liquor deal with Regal Dry Gin. One of Nigeria’s biggest Fuji star, the artiste secured the  three year  deal, which requires him to represent the brand of dry gin in their adverts, functions and the like.
Though there has been no official confirmation, the deal is said to run into millions of naira.

Funke Akindele’s New Husband, Kehinde ‘Almaroof’ Oloyede Expecting Sixth Child From First Wife

Funke Akindele‘s husband, Kenny Almaroof Oloyede is said to be expecting his sixth child from his first wife Fadeke. Sources say that the first wife already has a child for the property developer/politician and is expecting another. She is also the one said to be taking care of four of his other kids from other women. The pregnant wife was said to have left the country at the time of Funke’s wedding to Kenny as the news came to her as a shock. In all of this, the groom is said to have denied being married prior to meeting Funke Akindele.

Samklef Officially Married!

Samklef and wife Yvonne

We brought you gist on popular producer of the EME crew, Samklef about his alleged affair with a Unilag undergrad which resulted in pregnancy and to whom he secretly got engaged to. Well, we are pleased to inform you that it is no longer an allegation.
Confirmed gist reaching us say the hit producer is now a married man, he got married to the said girlfriend Yvonne on the 29^th of December in Imo state. And as we already know they are expecting a baby.
Hmmm… this qualifies Samklef as the VGBG (Very Good Bad Guy) of 2011. ‘He that findeth a wife findeth a good thing’ that said, we wish the couple a very fulfilling marriage and all of God’s blessings.

Timaya Gets New Look, Shaves Dreads

Nigerian singer, Timaya also known as Egberi papa 1 of Bayelsa has shaved off his signature dreadlocks. The singer who just recently became a daddy to a beautiful little girl . Speculation is that this new look is to fit in with his new status as a daddy. However his reason for  changing his look, the absence of his trademark dreads makes him look fresher and more mature….What do you think?

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For the first time in the history of Olympics, Saudi Arabia will allow its women to compete in the Olympics kicking off July. Officials say the olympics committee will overseer the participation of the qualified ones among them to compete in the events.

Saudi Arabia was one of three countries that did not allow women to participate in the games.

The other two are Qatar and Brunei and they are also going to allow their female athletes compete in the London games that will begin July 27.

Officials say they will compete, but they will be dressed to preserve their dignity.

NUC Suspends Part-time Programmes in Universities

Professor Julius Okojie

The Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Professor Julius Okojie, while briefing newsmen in Abuja on Monday, 25th June, 2012, announced the suspension of part-time programmes run by Nigerian universities. According to him, part- time programmes are being abused by Nigerian universities, and this step was necessary in order to bring them in line with global best practices and standards.
According to the Executive Secretary: “for now, all part-time programmes are suspended, we are going to streamline them. In effect, we should not have more than 20 per cent of the total students’ population on part-time programmes… all part-time programmes must be located on campus, we don’t want satellite campuses again”.
The NUC has good intentions as we will all agree even the full-time students who study and even live on our campuses in Nigerian universities eventually graduate most of the times as half-baked graduates. Yes. One only needs to interact with some of our graduates to see that a lot of them know little or nothing about their professed disciplines. But as is the case with most of our problems, the manner of approach is rather wrong.
Must the Commission suspend the already ongoing programmes? Why can’t the Commission just introduce a quota system for the universities to follow, starting from their next sets of intakes? So that, whoever now flouts this quota system can then be punished as the commission deems fit – even bans will not be too harsh then. As it is now, what purpose does the current suspension serve, other than to leave more youths idle? Or must the programmes be suspended before the universities can be made to close down the satellite campuses? The commission should remember also, while taking whatever decisions they have to take, that these programmes constitute the only shot that so many Nigerian youths have at any form of tertiary education.