UK-based Nigerian footballer’s ex-girlfriend jailed for funding terrorists

A former beauty queen, Amaani Noor, who once dated Nigerian-born Liverpool footballer Sheyi Ojo, has been convicted of funding terrorism.

Ms. Noor was handed an 18-month jail term on Friday (today) after she was found guilty of sending money overseas to a jihadist fighter who she had met online and later married.

Her ex-boyfriend, Oluwaseyi Babajide ‘Sheyi’ Ojo is Nigerian-born English footballer who plays for Scottish Premiership side Rangers, and currently on loan from Liverpool, as a winger.

Ojo joined Liverpool as a 14-year-old and came through their academy.

Now 22 years old, Ojo had started dating Noor as a 17-year-old football rising star, and they both had a long-term relationship, according to UK Mirror online.

The jury was told Noor had been in a relationship with a professional footballer when she was a teenager and also had a short marriage to a preacher.

The player was not named, but Noor had dated Nigerian-born Sheyi Ojo, who is currently on loan at Rangers.

Noor, 21, was wooed online by a man she fondly addressed as “Hakim My Love;” and had told him, “It’s been my dream to marry a fighter for a long time and my dream to be a fighter myself even longer.”

Noor, of Cinema Drive in Wavertree, Liverpool, had claimed she believed that the $45 she donated to the Merciful Hands organisation on May 23, 2018, would go to buy food for women and children in Syria.

Amaani Noor during her court appearance on Friday (today) But earlier this month, a jury found her guilty of fundraising for terrorists contrary to the Terrorism Act 2000.