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Firm declares lady HIV positive over alleged N25,000 loan debt
A traumatised lady, Mayowa Pelumi, has narrated how a loan firm, Credit9JA, sent messages to all the contacts on her phone, saying she was an HIV-positive patient, who escaped from a facility where she was being treated.
The lady, who said such action by Credit9JA was unbelievable and hitting below the belt, denied owing the loan firm.
This was also as she demanded justice for the loan firm’s action.
She said: “I have been receiving calls from different people, saying that someone sent my picture to them, that I was HIV positive, and that I escaped from a facility where I was being treated.
“People called me to find out if it was true.”

Pelumi explained that she took a loan of N16,000 from Credit9JA to pay N24,000, but she was not able to meet the due date.
According to her, she was supposed to pay the loan in two weeks, but due to circumstances beyond her control, she exceeded it by a week.
She said: “When they called me to remind me of the loan, I explained my desperate situation to them, apologised and that same week I repaid the loan in three tranches.
“But instead of paying them N24,000, I paid them N25,000.
“I have my proof of payments.
“A few days after I paid, Credit9JA chatted me, saying I still owed them N25,000.
“I asked: How come?’”
In most online loans, immediately after a customer exceeds the due date of loan repayment, an astronomical interest is placed on the initial interest.
But Pelumi insisted that Credit9JA did not explain that to her when she collected the loan.
She also insisted that she had used the loan app twice and had never had such a problem with them.
She said that while she was still waiting for them to explain to her how her debt came back to N25,000 even after she had paid them, she started receiving calls from concerned family members, friends and acquittances asking if she was truly HIV positive.
A human rights activist, Esther Ekwem, who has taken up the case for Pelumi, said she could not understand how declaring a customer as an escaped HIV patient would help to ensure the loan was refunded.
Insisting that what Credit9JA did amounted to mental torture, the activist said she had called the company to hear from them what led to it taking such drastic steps in subjecting their customer to trauma.
Ekwem said the lady who picked her call was quite rude.
She revealed that she had briefed her lawyer to sue the company for what it did to Pelumi and the process has started.
Some of the messages sent to Pelumi and her contacts were: “This is to inform the general public that Olayode Pelumi Mayowa, age 25, has been tested positive (+) to HIV/AIDS, and escaped from the healthcare facility with the mind set of infecting the general public. Kindly avoid this person and contact the nearest police station or healthcare centre so this person can be apprehended and taken back to the healthcare centre.”
It was signed Public Health Nigeria, HIV’AIDS Department, Abuja.
In another message sent to her via WhatsApp, Credit9JA said: “This is another day to save yourself and others from stress and turmoil. As usual your payment should come in or before 12PM OOO. We no wan talk too much today. Make sure to use Opay, account name; Momoh Mohammed Sak, account number; 7060424817. Send receipt. Note: This account is on the APP, so it is not personal account.”
Our reporter reached out to the firm via phone number 08100851343, call, Truecaller showed Silvia Abj.
However, nobody picked.
Our reporter then sent a WhatsApp message, asking for the firm’s side of the story and why they tagged their customer’s HIV carrier, including sending such erroneous messages to all people in her contact, but they replied thus: “Alaye Ebami Dake Ejoh (My person, please keep quiet).”
Silvia would later send a voice note, saying: “Different people had come, using the same thing to come and lure me into talking, so that you guys can justify her action, please and please I’m not in for that.
“Whatever lies she has fabricated, I’m not going to explain to anybody anymore.”
Ekwem, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Esther Child Rights Foundation, said what the loan firm did was enough to cause mental health for a customer and should not be the yardstick deployed in making a borrower to refund a loan.
The Central Bank of Nigeria and Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission had asked loan firms, now referred to as loan sharks, to stop resorting to unprofessional measures of harassment, cyberbullying and breach of data privacy of their customers who may have defaulted in loan payment. (TheEagle)
Business
Enugu Air Launches New Website
…moves online services to www.enuguairlines.ng
Enugu Air has announced the launch of its new official website, enuguairlines.ng, as part of efforts to provide passengers and customers with a better, safer and more convenient digital experience.
The airline said the migration to the new website is designed to improve how passengers connect with Enugu Air and access its services online, including flight bookings, schedules and the latest updates.
Announcing the development, the airline said: “We’ve moved! We’re innovating! We’ve migrated to a better, safer and convenient website to connect you to the world.”
Passengers can now access Enugu Air’s online services through its new web address, enuguairlines.ng, which the airline described as its new digital home.
The airline urged passengers and prospective travellers to save the new web address and use it for flight bookings, checking schedules and obtaining the latest information about its operations.

“Same Enugu Air. New web address,” the airline stated, emphasising that the change represents an improvement in its digital platform while retaining the Enugu Air brand and services.
The airline further encouraged customers to visit, www.enuguairlines.ng for all flight-related information and online services.
It further stated that the old website, enuguairlines•com has been discarded and no longer in use.
News
Kidnapped female Police officer found dead in Ebonyi
A kidnapped female police officer has been found dead in Ebonyi State after a suspected member of a kidnapping syndicate was arrested and led police operatives to the scene where her remains were recovered.
The Nigeria Police Force disclosed this in its state-by-state operational update issued by Force Public Relations Officer
Force Headquarters, Ani Iniedu on Monday, detailing several arrests, rescues and recoveries recorded across the country between September 19 and 20, 2026.
According to the police, the suspect was arrested following a sustained intelligence-led and technology-based investigation into the kidnapping of the female officer.
The suspect reportedly led combined police teams to the crime scene, where the remains of the officer were recovered.
The police said the case is being investigated by the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) in Abakaliki.

In a separate operation in Adamawa State, police operatives rescued two kidnapped victims from a suspected kidnappers’ hideout in Shako Forest, Toungo Local Government Area.
The operation, carried out on September 20 following actionable intelligence, also led to the recovery of two magazines containing 10 rounds of 7.62×39mm live ammunition.
A National Identification Number (NIN) card, mobile phone, passport and chain were also recovered from the suspected hideout.
In the Federal Capital Territory, police arrested 334 suspects during coordinated raids on criminal hotspots, black spots and uncompleted buildings across several locations.
The operation, conducted on September 19, also resulted in the recovery of various quantities of substances suspected to be illicit drugs.
Meanwhile, police in Anambra State arrested a suspected child trafficker who was allegedly intercepted while travelling with a six-month-old baby boy.
The baby was recovered and handed over to the appropriate authorities for necessary action, according to the police.
In Kaduna State, four suspected members of a kidnapping syndicate were arrested following intelligence-led operations.
Police said the suspects confessed to their alleged involvement in kidnapping and provided information about fleeing accomplices. A locally made Dane gun was recovered.
Another suspected kidnapping syndicate member was arrested at Soba Market in the state. Police said the suspect also confessed and gave information implicating five fleeing accomplices.
In Ogun State, police arrested a suspect linked to a fatal shooting incident in Isara, Remo North Local Government Area.
One single-barrel gun, one live cartridge and one expended shell were recovered during the operation.
In Imo State, a suspect was arrested during a raid on a suspected criminal gathering at Nekede, Owerri West Local Government Area, with police recovering a locally made cut-to-size single-barrel gun.
Police in Ekiti State also arrested two suspects linked to multiple shop-breaking and stealing incidents in Ado-Ekiti and recovered suspected stolen iron rods.
In another operation in Ado-Ekiti, police recovered an abandoned white sack containing a pump-action gun loaded with two live cartridges and a locally made single-barrel gun from a farmland.
In Benue State, police tactical teams, supported by personnel of the Police Mobile Force and military, intervened in a renewed communal conflict at Akpa-Mbakor Community in Tarka Local Government Area.
The security teams dispersed the rampaging youths and restored normalcy in the area, according to the police.
In Oyo State, police arrested a truck driver allegedly involved in a fatal road traffic incident along the Ijebu-Ode/Idi Ayunre Road.
The truck was impounded for further inspection and investigation.
The police said all the cases remain under investigation by the respective State Criminal Investigation Departments.
News
UK excludes Nigerian, Ghanaian-trained teachers from teaching qualification list
Teachers trained in Nigeria and Ghana are no longer eligible to apply for Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) in England under the United Kingdom’s overseas-trained teacher application route.
The change took effect on September 9 and means teachers trained in the two West African countries can no longer use the route to obtain QTS, a status recognised by many schools in England.
The UK Department for Education said countries included in the scheme must meet specific requirements to ensure that applicants’ qualifications, professional standing and teaching experience can be properly verified. One of the requirements is that a country must have a national regulator capable of confirming a teacher’s professional status and providing authenticated references.
According to the department, Nigeria and Ghana did not meet the reference-verification requirement.
“Our data shows that more than 70% of applications from teachers in Ghana and Nigeria include work history references that use public email addresses, such as Gmail or Hotmail, rather than a school’s official email domain. This means assessors spend additional time and resources trying to verify information provided in applications,” the department said.

The UK department said about 90 percent of applications are assessed within 12 months.
India was also removed from the eligible list because it does not have a national regulator capable of confirming teachers’ professional standing.
South Africa is now the only African country remaining on the list of countries whose teachers can use the QTS application route.
The department said the verification process was necessary to ensure that information provided by applicants was genuine and that teachers awarded QTS possessed the required skills and experience to teach in England.
To apply for QTS, overseas-trained teachers must have a valid passport, an undergraduate degree equivalent to a UK bachelor’s degree and professional recognition as a teacher in the country where they trained.
Applicants must also have completed any mandatory induction requirements needed for full teacher registration in their country of qualification.
They are required to demonstrate that they are qualified to teach children aged between five and 16 and have at least nine months of teaching experience gained after qualifying as a teacher.
Applicants must also provide employment references that verify their work history and use an email address linked to the school’s official domain.
Depending on the country where a teacher trained, additional requirements may include qualifications to teach pupils aged between 11 and 16 and a specialism in subjects such as mathematics, science, biology, chemistry, physics, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Mandarin, Russian or Spanish.
However, because teachers in England are employed by individual schools rather than the Department for Education, schools may consider alternative routes into teaching.
The department said teachers who are no longer eligible to use the QTS application service can explore other routes into teaching in England.
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