The Ebonyi State Police Command, on Friday, said it has rescued over 32 females and males, mainly between the ages of 16 and 17 years from traffickers, who allegedly dumped them in a two-room apartment, located at Okposi Umuaghara community, in the Ezza North Local Government Area of the state. The state Commissioner of Police, […]
Police detectives in Zamfara state have arrested a Nigerien woman identified as Aisha Ibrahim, who allegedly tried to sell her co-wife’s two-year-old boy in Gusau, the state capital. According to the state police commissioner, Mr Ayuba N Elkanah, the detectives acted on intelligence before tracking down the suspect at Tullukawa area of Gusau metropolis. The […]
The police have arrested a 14-year-old housemaid, Favour Iwuozo in Ogun State for allegedly abducting the baby of her boss. Police authorities said in a statement issued on Tuesday that the suspect ran away with the two-year-old victim to neighbouring Lagos. Iwuozo, according to the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, was […]
Men of Ogun State Command of Nigeria Police have arrested a couple for allegedly selling their one-month-old baby at the rate of fifty thousand naira. The couple, Eze Onyebuchi and his wife Oluchi Eze, according to a statement by the command image maker, reside at Ilara area of Ode Remo, in Remo North local government […]
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF IMO STATE IS NOT INVOLVED IN ANY CHILD TRAFFICKING MATTER The attention of the Honourable Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice Imo State has been drawn to the malicious, procured and orchestrated news item being circulated by media outfits suggesting that the Honourable Attorney General of Imo State is subverting Justice […]
A Magistrate’s Court in Owerri, the Imo State capital, has ordered the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in the state, Cyprian Akaolisa, to appear before it on January 20, 2022, over a case of alleged children trafficking. On Tuesday, a nurse, Ngozi Ebuzoaju, who is in the custody of Owerri Correctional Centre, was arraigned by […]
Operatives of the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Akwa Ibom State Command have arrested one Elisha Effiong for allegedly conniving with his wife to sell their two daughters aged 6 and 4 respectively. Effiong, who lives in Cameroon with his wife was arrested in Uyo on November 15, 2021, […]
A man, his wife and two other relations have been arrested for allegedly trafficking a 13-year-old girl, Chiamaka, to Burkina Faso, for prostitution. The suspects were arrested by the police in Delta State, where the victim was lured to before being moved to the West African country. The Secretary to the Ebonyi Progressives Union, Delta […]
The Police in Abia State, have arrested a 40-year-old man, Appolos Ndubuisi, for allegedly selling a baby boy for N350, 000, after deceiving the mother that the baby died during delivery. Ndubuisi was alleged to have conspired with one Rose Godwin Chinweikpe, who operates a maternity home at Owoahia-Afor community in Obingwa council, to sell […]
Governor Darius Ishaku of Taraba state has identified trafficking of persons as the deadliest evil against humanity. Ishaku who spoke Tuesday, in Jalingo the state capital during the inauguration of a 27- member task force on counter human trafficking, disclosed that merchants of the illicit trade have also incorporated child trafficking into their scheme, and […]
