Tag: Child Trafficking
Nigerian women apprehended for child trafficking
The Adamawa State Police Command has arrested two women in connection with an alleged child trafficking network and rescued three…
Police arrest suspects over major paedophile network linked to France
According to the police statement, the suspects were part of a transnational organised criminal group active since 2017. The group…
Horror den uncovered in Anambra as Police rescue 33 underage girls
Operatives of the Anambra State Police Command have rescued 33 underaged girls from a suspected child trafficking syndicate operating within…
Lagos Police smash ruthless baby trafficking ring, rescue five children
Acting on this information, AIG Fayoade deployed a special team to track down the suspects across various locations in Lagos.…
World Day Against Human Trafficking: NAPTIP, others, stage roadwalk in Benin
The Coordinator of Benin Zonal Command of NAPTIP, Mr Ganiu Aganran, noted that the theme of the 2024 World Day…
Child trafficking: Police arrest two, rescue five
She added: “We are working closely with our counterparts in Sokoto State to ensure that the children are safely returned…
‘Reverend Sister’ in NAPTIP net over alleged trafficking of 38 children
By Jethro Ibileke The Benin Zonal Command of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), has…
Suspected kingpin of human trafficking syndicate arrested in Lagos
"While awaiting operatives from Kwara State Police Command Anti-Trafficking Unit to come and harmonise the case, efforts are on to…
Child Trafficking: Police rescue three babies, arrest 16 suspects in Gombe
According to the police spokesperson, the command received an intelligence report on one of the parents who sold her child…
Notorious Rivers trafficker ‘Dr Hagi’ arrested for selling 4 children
The child trafficker, Happiness Enyinnaya Iheukeumere confessed to having sold the children while pleading with the government, the law enforcement…
Edo man Alfred Osadolor jailed 7 years for trafficking 10-year-old girl
Osadolor was arraigned on 22 August 2021, on a one-count charge of procurement for sexual exploitation.
Fake Rev. Sister Maureen remanded for child trafficking
Wechenwu said she bought the children between N50,000 and N100,000 each, adding that five of the kids were taken from…
Rivers woman Blessing Stephen jailed 10 years for selling baby for N20k
Abigail Monday Udo and mother of the trafficked baby who was also asked by the court to report to three…
Air Peace staff foil child trafficking attempt in Lagos
Some desk staff of Air Peace have foiled the trafficking of two babies by a couple at the Murtala Muhammed…
Child trafficker arrested with 5-day-old baby in Cross River
The Anti-Human Trafficking/Child Labour Unit of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) in Cross River, has arrested a suspected child trafficker,…
America-based Nigerian woman to rot in jail 10 years for buying 3 children
A Magistrate Court in Port Harcourt has slammed 10 years imprisonment on 47-year-old, Lois Obazi, a US-based woman for child…
Edo: Child trafficking, abuse now attract 12, 7 years
Anyone who engages children under 12 years as domestic workers in Edo state now risks seven years imprisonment.
Facebook hammered for Nigerian child trafficking adverts on its platform
The Africans Unite Against Child Abuse, United Kingdom, and Centre for Children’s Health, Education, Orientation and Protection, Nigeria, have criticised…
3 child traffickers arrested in Anambra
Mr Haruna Muhammed, the Public Relations Officer (PPRO) for Anambra police command, has arrested 74 persons for alleged criminal offences,…
Video: See brothel which encourages child prostitution
In an investigative report by BBC, children as young as seven have been discovered to be groomed into selling their…
Child trafficking: ILO executes £28m project in 5 African countries
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has begun a 28-million-euro project, sponsored by the Netherlands, to accelerate the fight against child…
Police bust three suspected child trafficking syndicates in Abia
Abia police command has arrested members of three suspected child trafficking syndicates, including 17-year-old Gift Daniel, who sold her two-day-old…
NAPTIP arrests suspected child traffickers, recovers children
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) on Wednesday said it arrested 11 persons over suspected…
Child trafficking: Bayelsa Govt. cautions parents on children’s company
The Bayelsa Government has advised parents to be cautious about the kind of friendship their female children keep, to avoid…
Plateau decries increase of women in drug abuse, child trafficking
Plateau Government on Wednesday expressed concern over increasing number of women in drug abuse and child trafficking-related issues in the…
Immigration Rescues 134 Children From Traffickers
The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) in Oyo State says it rescued 134 children, who were victims of child trafficking between…
LASG arrests woman for using twins to beg
The Lagos State Ministry of Youth and Social Development monitoring team recently apprehended a woman soliciting alms with two infant…
Woman sells unborn child in Anambra
29-year-old Miss Chidimma Okorie from Amasiri, Ebonyi State, yesterday, stunned people at the headquarters of the Anambra State Police Command…
Police nab child trafficking couple in Asaba
Jethro Ibileke/Asaba Operatives of the Delta State Police Command, have arrested a child trafficking couple, Emeka Odili and his lover…
Ambode seeks eradication of child trafficking
Mrs Bolanle Ambode, wife of Lagos State Governor, has called for collaborative efforts between governments and non-governmental organisations to eradicate…