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 […]
Police in Imo State have arrested a nurse, Ngozi Eboson, for allegedly selling two children to one Mrs. Chinyere Ohanyere, popularly known as Madam Chichi. A police source told our correspondent on Monday that operatives of the state command swooped on the nurse at the Owerri West area of the state. The nurse was said […]
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 […]
