trafficking
14 Dec
Former Director General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, (NAPTIP), and Founder, Safe Haven Foundation, Professor Fatima Waziri-Azi, has said that Community’s Based Organisations
5 Dec
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has rescued 3,900 human trafficking victims and secured convictions for 692 traffickers since 2015 to boost the fight against Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV). Its Director General, Binta Bello, made the disclosure yesterday at the High-Level Policy Dialogue on SGBV to mark this year’s…
1 Dec
Three foreigners and a Malaysian woman have been remanded for seven days by Malaysian authorities over a human trafficking case involving the sexual exploitation of a Nigerian woman. According to Buletin TV3, the remand order for the four suspects, aged between 24 and 35, including two men and two women, was issued by Balik Pulau…
23 Oct
The Yobe State Police Command has arrested a 54-year-old resident of Morami Village in Jakana, Konduga Local Council, Borno State, Hamsatu Modu, for allegedly trafficking 350 rounds of ammunition.
12 Oct
The Rivers State Police Command has clarified a ‘misleading report’ circulating on social media regarding a recent rescue operation. Rivers police spokesman SP Grace Iringe-Koko, said the statement was to set the record straight on the rescue of 16 children from a compound in Ozuoba, in Obio-Akpor council of the state. “On September 8, 2024,…
3 Oct
The Chairman, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), retired Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa has said drug trafficking in the Sahel continues to hinder security, economic development and the rule of law while jeopardizing public health. In an interview with newsmen during its 1st Annual International Lecture on Thursday in Abuja, Marwa said that increased drug…
7 Sep
The Semé Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) in partnership with Hearts and Hands Humanitarian Foundation (3HF) on Saturday sensitized communities in Seme on illegal migration and human trafficking. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the personnel of the NIS and the NGO walked from street to street with a public address…
22 Aug
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), yesterday, alleged that parents are the major actors aiding human trafficking in Oyo State.
27 May
A Federal High Court sitting in Calabar, Cross River State, has sentenced a 32-year-old man, Prince Joseph Ekpo, to six years imprisonment
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The Lagos County Club has urged Nigerians to imbibe the habits of protecting themselves against malaria as they celebrate Christmas to avoid untimely deaths. Its Swimming Section Chairman, Ayodeji Osikoya, said malaria can be prevented by preventing, the bite from mosquitoes the vector transmitting the plasmodium parasite, which causes malaria. He noted this yesterday, at…
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Worried by what it described as age-long inequalities in political power rotation in Kwara State, a forum Kwara South Equity Advocates (K-SEA) has opted for a governor from the northern geopolitical zone of the state. It lamented that the central has been in power for over 20 years against other zones' cumulative eight years. The…
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The Africa Nature Investors (ANI) Foundation, in collaboration with the National Park Service (NPS), has launched a transformative rice mill project to empower women in Gashaka local government council of Taraba State. The initiative is part of the foundation's Savings and Loan Programme which supports over 2,000 women across 40 villages near the Gashaka-Gumti National…
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Former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Moses Jitoboh, a retired Deputy Inspector-General of Police is dead.
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An Israeli military raid targeting Hamas militants has forced a major hospital in northern Gaza out of service and led to the detention of its director, the WHO and health officials said Saturday. The assault on Kamal Adwan Hospital has rendered the facility "useless", further worsening Gaza's severe health crisis, the Palestinian territory's health officials…
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Senior members of Canada's cabinet held talks Friday with US President-elect Donald Trump's nominees to lead the departments of commerce and the interior, as Ottawa works to hold off the threat of punishing tariffs. Canada's newly-appointed Finance Minister Dominic Leblanc and Foreign Minister Melanie Joly met with Howard Lutnick, Trump's commerce secretary nominee, who will…
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The National Security Adviser (NSA), Malam Nuhu Ribadu, has categorically denied accusations that Nigeria intended to sabotage or destabilise Niger Republic, as alleged by its leader, Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani. Ribadu made this statement in an interview with BBC Hausa, which was provided to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) by the Office of the National…
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The death toll after a bridge collapse in northern Brazil increased to 10 on Friday, authorities said. The Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira bridge, which connects the states of Maranhao and Tocantins, collapsed on Sunday, sending vehicles and their occupants plunging into the water below. The Brazilian Navy had been conducting rescues in the area, finding…
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Kenyan President William Ruto has promised an end to abductions, following the latest spate of disappearances that have been condemned by rights groups, lawyers and politicians. Security forces in the East African nation have been accused of carrying out dozens of illegal detentions since youth-led anti-government demonstrations in June and July. The latest disappearances have…
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At least one Pakistani paramilitary soldier was killed and seven others wounded in cross-border exchanges of fire with Afghan forces, a security source told AFP on Saturday. Sporadic clashes, including with heavy weaponry, erupted overnight between border forces on the frontier between Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan and Khost province in Afghanistan, officials from both…