Tag: human trafficking

A fresh, student-driven initiative is emerging to challenge the longstanding menace of human trafficking.

In the viral video, the Chinese national could be seen handing N5,000 each to a group of the MOPOL officers.

The boys, whose average age is 10, were intercepted while being transported to Niger Republic.

"Trafficking is a very complicated disease. It is very dangerous. And the challenges are so numerous. When we talk about ...

Human rights, together with strengthening international law and justice frameworks will remain high on the agenda, with the Assembly working ...

Hundreds of arrests and millions worth of stolen goods: The bottom line of an Interpol strike against African mafia group ...

"We are investigating a lot of orphanages around the country, NAPTIP is currently prosecuting some of these orphanages."

President Tinubu said with the recent election, Senegal has proved to Africa and the world the beauty of constitutional democracy.

Orphanages are sometimes used for trafficking of children in the state.

NAPTIP said the number of convictions in 2022 was the highest since the agency’s inception. The agency was established in ...

The judge also imposed a fine of N24 million on the 62-year-old convict.

To encourage a change in the mindset of the average Edo person away from a fixation on Europe and other ...

Conservatively, 800,000 people are trafficked annually, with 80% of them being women and half of these being minors. The global ...

The case has been transferred to the Criminal Investigation Department, the police said.

The suspected trafficker had been arrested, says an official.

The police said the suspect was planning to take the children to Lagos.

The NAPTIP Commander in the state, Musa Aliyu, said this while briefing journalists on Saturday in Katsina to mark the ...

The assailants left 40 persons dead and over 80 others injured in the attack.

“On arrival in Dubai, their (victims) passports were seized and they were lodged in a rented apartment.”

Mrs Edomwonyi was convicted on Thursday in Benin, for the same offence she was rescued from at Seme borders, a ...

“The victims comprised six males and 29 females, aged between five and 42 years respectively.”

The victims were mostly girls and women who were sexually exploited, according to the agency.

What Itunu's and Kunle's cases demonstrate is the reality of many Nigerian nationals in Cape Verde, Malaysia, India, South Africa, ...

NAPTIP says the victims, who were mostly children, were exposed to sexual exploitation, child labour, violence and baby harvesting, amongst ...

The police said the federal police conducted large-scale raids in several states targeting an alleged people-smuggling ring.