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 […]
At least 615 victims of human trafficking have been rescued in Katsina State from January to date. The Commander of the State Command of National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Musa Aliyu, gave out the figure on Saturday in a joint Press Conference to mark World Day Against Trafficking in Persons […]
Operatives of the Delta State Police Command have uncovered a baby factory located within Obodogba community in the Okpanam Oshimili North Local Government Area of the state. Disclosing this to journalists in a signed press statement on Thursday, the spokesman for the state Police Command, DSP Bright Edafe, affirmed that three pregnant women were […]
Anambra State Police command has arrested a 29-year-old woman, Miss Chinwendu Umegbaka for allegedly stealing her neighbour’s child at Nwawulu Sreet, Okpoko, Onitsha. The suspect was arrested on Saturday at 4:30 pm in Okpoko. Confirming the incident, the command spokesman, DSP Ikenga Tochukwu said, “The police have arrested, one Miss Chinwendu Umegbaka, 29 years, […]
