‘First lady’ accused of property scam

A woman who used various false identities to gain access to Nigeria's presidential complex to allegedly run business scams has been arrested. The secret service said Amina Mohammed initially posed as Kogi state's first lady to gain entry to the presidential villa in Abuja. BBC News reports that she allegedly invited people to the villa making them believe it was at the invitation of the President's wife Peter Afunanya, a spokesman for the Department of State Security, told reporters. The incident took place while First Lady Aisha Buhari was out of the country in November 2017. Wealthy businessman Alexander Okafor, invited to the the presidential villa by Mohammed, accused her of defrauding him of $414 000 over a property deal in Lagos. ‘Investigations have shown that this unholy enterprise is not to the knowledge of the first lady,’ Afunanya said.