{
  "id": 12872532,
  "title": "Travel agent concealed documents to arrange fake marriage for me – UK-based Nigerian tells court",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/travel-agent-concealed-documents-to-arrange-fake-marriage-for-me-uk",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-08T12:30:43.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Daily Post Nigeria",
    "slug": "daily-post-nigeria",
    "url": "https://dailypost.ng/2026/10/08/travel-agent-concealed-documents-to-arrange-fake-marriage-for-me-uk-based-nigerian-tells-court/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Emmanuel Opeyemi Makinde, a UK-based Nigerian, has recounted to a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja how travel agent Waliyu Aderibigbe Shitta concealed information to arrange a fraudulent marriage for him in 2022. According to Makinde, Shitta fraudulently added a woman named Dolapo Afusat Yusuf to his visa application as his wife. Currently, Shitta is on trial for arranging fake marriages to help individuals, including Yusuf, travel abroad using the identity of Makinde, a UK citizen. Makinde, unaware of his so-called spouse, submitted a Subject Access Request to the Home Office in March 2024. Upon receiving his documents, he was shocked to discover the fake marriage, as the records showed Dolapo Afusat Yusuf as his spouse. Makinde maintains he has never met or spoken to Dolapo Afusat Yusuf, and he insists that he never consented to the fraudulent marriage.",
  "summary": "A United Kingdom-based Nigerian, Emmanuel Opeyemi Makinde, has told Justice Ademuyiwa Oyeyipo of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court sitting in Jabi, Abuja, how a travel agent, Mr Waliyu Aderibigbe Shitta, concealed information and documents to arrange a fake marriage for him in 2022. Makinde, in his evidence before the court, said the travel […] Travel agent concealed documents to…",
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      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}