Court jails ‘yahoo school’ operator five years in Edo

A suspected relation of a cybercrime grooming centre, popularly referred to arsenic a “Yahoo school,” Goodluck Ejimiyare, has been sentenced to 5 years imprisonment by Justice (Prof.) C. A. Obiozor of the Federal High Court sitting successful Benin City.

Ejimiyare was earlier apprehended by troops of the Nigerian Army 4 Brigade Headquarters alongside 17 youths astatine the installation known arsenic “Hustle Kingdom,” aft which helium was handed implicit to the Benin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for further investigation.

During interrogation, respective of the youths reportedly admitted that they had been recruited by Ejimiyare into the operation, which authorities described arsenic a grooming crushed for net fraud activities.

The anti-graft bureau subsequently arraigned him connected March 30, 2026, connected an amended one-count complaint bordering connected conspiracy with 1 Ebuka Henry Eze, who is presently astatine large, to perpetrate net fraud.

The complaint stated that Ejimiyare, sometime successful 2025, conspired wrong the court’s jurisdiction to prosecute successful computer-related fraud, an ...