Kano State Police command has uncovered an illegal rehabilitation centre where inmates were chained, tortured and freed 47 of them at the centre located at Yar Akwa in Naibawa Quarters, Tarauni Local Government Area of the state. This was just as the command arrested two suspects, 35-year Aminu Rabiu and his elder brother, Fatihu Rabiu, […]
The Imo State Police Command, on Friday, said it had found Amarachi Okechukwu Dioku, 18, who went missing in May from Umudurualaoka, Uba, Ifakala in Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo State, in a church-cum baby factory, where she was impregnated and her baby would be sold after putting to bed. The State Police Commissioner, […]
The Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo has sentenced a 47-year-old woman, Gertrude Akpan, to 10 years’ imprisonment for trafficking in children. The convict was said to have bought a six-year-old boy in Uyo and taken him to Owerri, Imo State, where she sold the victim to one Kate Ogbonna. The court, presided […]
Two women who attempted to sell off a nine-month-old infant for N400,000 have come under investigation, police in Imo say. It came after two women—one young Mfon and another older women Esther—surfaced on social media, carrying an infant suspected to have been stolen from Akwa Ibom and brought to Imo. The women were caught by […]
Police in Ogun have arrested a housewife, Blessing Ebuneku Agoro, for allegedly selling her two daughters for N300,000 to a childless couple. The suspect was arrested following a report at Redeemed Camp divisional headquarters by her husband, Oluwaseyi Agoro, that upon his return from a trip on June 8 he could not find his two […]
The Police Command in Anambra says it has uncovered a baby factory at Otolo, Nnewi following its investigation into an attempted child theft a week ago. The Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Haruna Mohammed, in a statement on Tuesday in Awka, said four pregnant girls were also rescued from the facility. Mohammed said the […]
Ibe Pascal Arogorn, Awka The Anambra State Police Command has declared Mrs Sabina Izuora whose photograph appeared above wanted in connection with alleged cases of Child trafficking/Stealing,forgery and perjury. The police spokesperson in the state, Haruna Mohammed contained this in a statement on Thursday and was made available to Crimefacts.news. He said, “the Command enjoined […]
….Including 5 heavily pregnant women .…Rescue 5 newly born babies, 3 other children Ibe Pascal Arogorn, Awka Operatives of the Anambra state police command Tuesday arrested 10 human traffickers for operating a factory at Oba in Idemili South LGA of the state. Police spokesperson in Anambra, CSP Haruna Mohammed disclosed this in a statement to […]
A clergyman identified as, Pastor Sodje Masodje, has been arrested by the operatives of Garrison of the 6 Division of the Nigerian Army, Port Harcourt over the disappearance of a young lady, Beauty Sorbari Nwigbaranee. A source disclosed that 20-year-old, Beauty, a final year student of the Department of Education, Rivers State University, was said […]
Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 35-year-old human trafficking kingpin, Comfort Innocent, for alleged abduction and trafficking of two under-aged girls. A statement by the command spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, indicated that the suspect was apprehended on December 22, 2020. According to Oyeyemi, “the arrest of the suspect followed a report by […]
