What you are about to read will shock you. How a 19 year old is able to pull off such well calculated scam, being a female for that matter is beyonce me. Read how for the past three years, Ifeoma Nelly, an Indstrial chemistry undergraduate at Delta State University, ABraka scammed people to the tune of $65,000.
Fresh facts have emerged of the lady's identity, how the young lady operated and how she was exactly caught.
This is following a recent scandal where a show promoting agency, Humble Entertainment, openly blasted Wizkid for failing to perform at its event despite being paid.
In a statement, the company claimed that, ‘despite going through all the necessary requirements to book Wizkid which included signing a contract and paying the required fee, we have been let down by the booking/management parties’.
Wizkid is represented in Nigeria by Sunday Are‘s ‘List Entertainment’ while his management in UK is Disturbing London led by Tinie Tempah.
Sunday Are denied knowledge of the show while Wizkid kept mum on the issue as well. Instead, he is said to have complained to the police commissioner that someone had been impersonating him and collecting money for shows.
The police swung into action and the 19-year-old suspect, identified as Ifeoma Nelly was arrested. She is said to be a student of Industrial Chemistry at the Delta State University. She was arrested through the combined efforts of Wizkid’s Manager, Mr. Sunday Are, policemen from Lagos and an Australian when she came to Lagos to collect part payment of $25,000 from some Australians at a hotel in Lagos, so that Wizkid would go to Australia to perform.
The suspect was said to use to collect payment via electronic, but because she was desperate to get her hands on the $25,000, she decided to this time, meet the Australian one on one. She reportedly came in company of two friends, a lady and a guy. Unknown to her, policemen had been planted in the hotel. So, when she walked into the hotel with her friends, thinking she was on the verge of meeting the Australian and sailing away $25,000, she walked into the waiting arms of policemen and Are.
Revealing how the suspect was arrested, Are said the lady said she had been posing on Facebook and defrauding people for three years, using Wizkid. When asked if she had other members assisting her, Nelly insisted that she was the only one running the show.
Are said:
“She has collected money from different people. If you don’t have evidence against her, she would deny it. But if you show her evidence, she would tell you the truth. There was the case of the $53,000, which we had to refund to the owner.
She confirmed that she was the one who collected it. There was another payment of $12,500 from Germany. The Germany people sent details of how they paid the money to her. She couldn’t deny it.”
Are said they had to start refunding money to different victims when the nefarious activities of the suspect became embarrassing.
The manager said:
“We had been having problems with different clients because of this. We keep refunding all the money. It was an issue. When it became serious, we had to refund the money to victims. Some people will just go, write in papers that Wikzid disappointed them. They would say Wizkid and his manager collected money and didn’t come to perform.
Meanwhile, we didn’t know about those shows.”
Are added that the lady, not only used Wizkid’s name to open the Facebook accounts, but also used Wizkid’s name to register the phone she was using.
“Whenever someone calls her or she calls someone, its Wizkid’s name that would show.
True caller shows Wizkid. We need everybody to help us fight this. We’ve s t a r t e d working towards d o i n g s o m e – t h i n g a b o u t t h e fake accounts.”
Recounting how she was arrested, Are said he and Wizkid went to Zambia for a show.
They were there when he received a call from some people in Australia. The caller said he wanted to know if he was speaking with Sunday Are, Wizkid’s manager. The Australian said that he had been speaking with someone, pretending to be Are.
The Australian said that he had almost concluded negotiation for Wizkid to come to Australia to perform and was just about to pay $25,000 part payment, when he heard that Wizkid was in Zambia. The Australian said it was quite unlikely for Wizkid to be in Zambia, while his manager would be in Lagos. The Australian sourced Are’s phone number and called; the real Are picked.
Are said:
“They said someone wanted to collect money from them in Lagos, Nigeria, for Wizkid to come and perform. They now found out that I was in Zambia. They now wondered how possible it was for Wizkid’s manager to be in Zambia, while Wizkid was in Lagos. They managed to get my number and called me.
I planned with them on how to make this arrest. I talked to them to convince the suspect to come and collect cash in a hotel in Lagos. That was how I managed to arrest her. “She came along with two friends. They were two ladies and a guy. She looked like a guy.
It took us three to four hours before we could believe she was a lady. She wore native clothes and spotted low cut, like she is Sunday Are. She wore Rolex wrist watch. She bought clothes for the lady that came with her because that one said she didn’t have any clothes good enough to wear to come and collect the money. “The arrest happened in a hotel in Lagos.
I planted policemen inside the hotel room. The people gave the lady an Australian number, saying the Australian didn’t have a Nigerian number. Everything looked genuine. The show was to be in Australia, the phone number was an Australian number and the man she was speaking with, was a white man. But the man was actually in Australia, directing them to come to the hotel to collect cash. They entered the room and we arrested them.”
Update: Photo Edited
Update: Photo Edited

12 comments:
I did not miss it but I am still in shock. 19 and a female. She has bn doing this for 3 years. She started @ 16. What a girl!
If nelly said she was alone. Why are there three people on the photograph??????? Don't you people think that will be bad for their images. Being showcased as thiefs while they knew nothing.
I am so speechless! If she can be that smart on this kind of thing she should have at least put her brain into use for something better. Not to be judgemental, i wonder where she learnt all this from...and come to think about it..if she is truely 19...she is suppose to be under her parent.. so you mean to tell me they never observed or suspected anything! They should please question her parents too ..#orishirishi4Africa
Hello everyone. Take a look at the photograph. Am the guy on white. Want ya'll to note. Nelly said it herself. She did it all alone. Without help. So am asking why am in that photograph. Sunday ARE himself made sure my image wasn't published. I really think the press should ask questions a lot more. On the main post nelly alone was cropped out of the picture. So am asking this blogger. Why do u have to post my photo?????
@Anon. SO sorry for the stress. Photo Edited.
My sincere apologies!!!!!!!
Dammy. I personally called sunday ARE not too long ago. Please kindly get the right photo. The original photo they published for this story. Pls. This is my image we talking about. I've received over a million calls from friends and family over stuff I didn't do. @dami. Pls. Thanks for your cooperation. #Godblessyou......... #WIZKIDAYOSCAM19yearoldgirl
Please quite the drama @ Anonymous. I edited a long time ago even before this last comment> A million calls?? A million? I barely have 100k visitors a day. so CHILl. I understand you pain but dont just be all over my blog like Daminaj.com is the only site that posted your photo.
@dami. Its not just u. I just saw ur post lately. Sowie if I talked rude to you @dami
That's ok.!!!! I hope you get as much blogs as possible to take down your pics. WHy did you allow them take your picture in the first place? You know you can tell your story to us...if needed. or grant a bigger news media an interview to clear your name.
The police forcefully took photo of us. Look at my face on those photos I was bitter. For 3days I wasn't granted my right to even let my family members know where I was. I was locked in cell for 9days. Treated like a thief without even being tried by the law court. I mean if ifeoma said by herself that she carried out all actions alone. And we r seeing photos of 3people. The story is fucked then. One other blog tagged it. Ifeoma and her team.. I felt fucked up I had to be on the news for some scam itch. It was like a kidnap. It was simply a use of power. There was no court trial of any kind. The police and the wizkid's management just did their thing and posted photos. I don't have a problem with that cos she confessed she did it all. But why my face?????? The story is true, no doupt .. I knew nothing about this whole. Thing. I just want my image cleared. Still trying to get tho. Wizkid's management for a press release to erase my image from all this. @dami. If. You can support. Will gladly accept it.
I will share my story on my next comment. #dami.
Concerning 19 year old ifeoma nelly frauding in wizkid ayo's name. I did not partake in the Wizkid Scam - I am being wrongly accused despite evidence. The guy on white in the picture tells his story........ There was no gang. I am the guy on white in the picture. Ifeoma Nelly tried to use me to get the money. A day before this happened. She messaged me saying wizkid ayo had asked her to pick up some money from a show promoter and send to him (wizkid). Long before this day she had made me believe she was friends with wizkid ayo. She even supplies me with celebrity management phone numbers. Convincing me she has a sister in lagos who is a top model that helps her out with all of that. So I had no doubt to believe she was actually a friend of wizkid. She came in from ABRAKA and called me up to meet her at the hotel. Which I did. On getting to the hotel room of the said show promoter, a mobile policeman opened the door for us to come in and that was how we were arrested. I was locked up in cell for 9days. Without court trial. Or doesn't the constitution state clearly that a suspect should not be detained for more than 24hours without court trial? Or has it changed that the police should Carry out legislative functions as well As executive duties?. Then what is the need for the legislative arm of government?. Photos of me were taken forcefully see photos here https://goo.gl/AqSLEJ . However, For 9days I was locked in cell. Till the 3rd day I was in cell without given right to call for a lawyer (defendant) or even family members to tell them my where about. it was like a kidnap. Nepotism is what I call this. The complainant was given all the attention and the suspect being treated as an animal thereby denying me of my civil rights. Nelly ifeoma clearly stated she did this alone. #click_to_see_proof. https://goo.gl/MfN2B2.
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