An online blackmailer and owner of naijagistlive.com, Babatunde Oyedepo has been arrested by Operatives of the Special Fraud Unit (SFU) in Lagos.

The blackmailer was reported to the police by Femi Otedola for accusing him of sleeping with girls in his naijagistlive.com and alleged attempt to swindle him. A police source squealed to us that: “The second complainant is Femi Otedola. He claimed that the suspect posted an annoying story on the same naijagistlife.com accusing him of sleeping with different girls in his office.”

We were told that Oyedepo, 23, was alleged to have sent threat and blackmail messages to high profile Nigerians through a website, naijagistlive.com, demanding huge sums of money. The suspect, who lives at Sixth Avenue in Festac Town, was alleged to have posted a superimposed nude pictures of a lawyer on his website, alleging that she had been sleeping with her boss and other clients.

According to the police, the suspect demanded N3.5million from the lawyer to remove the inappropriate picture from the site, which the victim could not afford.

A source said: “The victim had allegedly told the suspect that she has no such money in her account and that the picture posted on the website had cost her, her job, her marriage and her social life. The lawyer is among the three different persons who petitioned the suspect.”

Spokesman for SFU, Lawal Audu, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) said the suspect has three different cases pending before the unit, adding that the first two involved fraud and threat to life.

“The complainant claimed that the suspect had posted on naijagistlife.com a story alleging that he had worked with former Petroleum Minister, Deziani Allison-Maduekwe and that throughout the period he had fraudulently acquired huge sum of money.

“The complainant also claimed to have received a mail from the suspect, informing him that he should pay an undisclosed amount running into millions to enable him remove the provocative story from the site.

“He alleged that since then he had been receiving threat messages from unknown callers demanding huge sum or risk being being kidnapped. “The suspect has another fraud case pending at the Federal High court.”