The police in Taraba state has arrested a suspected child trafficker, Mary Yakubu, with 23 children. The children, who are between the ages of four and seven, comprise 14 boys and nine girls. Mary was paraded along with other suspects on Monday at the State Police Command headquarters in Jalingo, the Taraba State capital. The […]
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The team from the political desk of United State Consulate currently on a visit to Edo, has described the state as the capital of human trafficking. Chief Dan Orbih, Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Edo state chapter, who hosted the team to a closed door meeting in Benin City on Tuesday, quoted the team […]
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The enormous cases of human trafficking have forced the Edo state government to dedicate two courts to accelerate hearing of such cases. The Edo Chief Judge, Justice Esohe Ikponmwen, who spoke on the designated courts urged the judges to rise above sentiments in the dispensation of justice, be firm and not swayed by name dropping. […]
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Josephine Iyamu, a Nigerian nurse in the UK, has been jailed for 14 years for human trafficking. Iyamu, 53, was said to have used a witch doctor to convince her victims that had taken an oath of allegiance while she extorted them. Reports revealed that she charged each of them about N13.5 million to arrange […]
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The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) on Friday arrested one Hafeez Abdulsalam, a suspected trafficker in the South-West who specialises in trafficking young girls to Saudi Arabia. NAPTIP’s Assistant Director of Intelligence, Investigation and Monitoring, Ms Tina Ugwu told NAN after the operation that Abdulsalam had been on NAPTIP’s watch […]
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The Network of Civil Society Against Human Trafficking (NCAHT), has hailed the Benin Monarch, Oba Ewuare II, over his collaborative efforts in the war against human trafficking, irregular migration and other social vices. President of NCAHT, Ms. Jennifer Ero, in a statement she issued in Benin, described last Friday’s meeting convened by the Monarch, at […]
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Edo State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has attacked the state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Yinka Omorogbe, for saying human trafficking in the state “has deep cultural roots”. But the state government rose to the defence of the commissioner, saying she only told the truth. Ms. Omorogbe was quoted recently by […]
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The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) on Sunday said it has arrested a notorious human trafficker and rescued three victims from his residence in Benin. Mr Josiah Emerole, the Head, Press and Public Relations, NAPTIP, said this in a statement issued in Abuja. Emerole disclosed that the 33-year-old man, Monday […]
Continue ReadingFranca Asemota, a 38-year-old female trafficking boss was sentenced to 22 years in prison on Thursday for using the threat of witchcraft to exert control over almost 40 women and girls brought from Nigeria to Europe for sex work, a British court prosecutor said. She was found guilty of conspiracy to traffic persons for sexual exploitation, […]
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BY AYO OLOWO Some girls trafficked into Burkina Faso by a female human trafficker have been rescued by the Oyo State command of the Nigerian Immigration Service, and have been reunited with their families in Ibadan, the state capital. The Comptroller of the Oyo state Command, Innocent Akatu, said the girls were tricked into leave […]
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