US-based Nigerian remanded over ‘identity fraud’

By Adebisi Onanuga

A Lagos Magistrates’ Court sitting in Tinubu on Tuesday remanded a 45-year-old Nigerian, Stephen Ezenduka, based in the United States of America in the custody of Nigeria Correctional Services (NCS), Ikoyi, for allegedly claiming to be an American citizen.

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Ezenduka was arrested by US officials at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja for allegedly claiming to be an American with the name, Davis Bussey, a claim which police said he knew to be false.