In a move being hailed as a major achievement, the Rivers State Police Command has busted a child trafficking syndicate operating in Port Harcourt, the state capital. Acting on intelligence, the C4i Intelligence Unit Operatives of the Command over the weekend raided two buildings at Igwuruta and Omagwa communities respectively, both in the Ikwerre […]
A Circuit Court in Tamale, the northern region of Ghana has sentenced a 41-year-old Nigerian woman to five years in prison for human trafficking and forced prostitution. The woman, Blessing Favour, a resident of Tamale city, pleaded guilty to human and sex trafficking and was convicted on her plea. The presiding judge, Alexander Oworae, […]
Operatives of the Ogun Police command have arrested a couple, Godday and Ebere Samuel for alleged human trafficking. The couple was arrested in the Ota area of the state, for allegedly trafficking a 16-year-old girl, Maria Adeniji. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the command, Abimbola Oyeyemi confirmed the arrest of the suspects […]
Operatives of the Department of State Services have arrested a woman who stole an eight-day-old twin, Ibrahim Mohammed, from the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, Bauchi and recovered the baby. The PUNCH reports that the twin boy who has stolen about six days ago from the ward of the hospital had been reunited […]
Ugwu Stated this when the Imo State Commander Of the National Agency for The Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) Mr Ernest Ogbu, handed over six children and one pregnant girl who were rescued from Child Traffickers caught at Eziachi in Orlu Local Government to the Ministry. The investigations and subsequent arrests were a […]
Police in Ebonyi have arrested a 20-year-old mother of a baby boy and her lover, who sold their baby to a maternity home operator for N500,000. The mother, Ola China, 20, of Amangwu Edda in Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi was impregnated out of wedlock by Jonah Ogbuagu, a bricklayer in August […]
Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested two women for allegedly operating a baby factory in Agbado, in the Ifo Local Government Area of the state. The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed the development in a statement on Monday, said the suspects, Christiana Iyama and Margaret Ogwu, […]
The police in Enugu State said they have arraigned three women who allegedly killed a nursing mother and sold her newborn twins in the state. The police spokesperson in the state, Daniel Ndukwe, disclosed this in a statement on Friday. He said the arraignment followed the conclusion of police investigations into the incident. Mr […]
The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 23-year-old woman, Mary Olatayo, for allegedly selling her three weeks old baby for N600,000. The command’s Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. Oyeyemi said the suspect was arrested following a complaint from the father of the baby. The PPRO […]
Females between the ages of 16 and 25 were the most trafficked within and outside Nigeria in 2019 and 2020, the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has revealed. In 2019, 523 females within this age bracket were trafficked for various reasons, and in 2020, a further 428 became victims, taking the total to 951 […]
