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The FCT Police Command has reunited 15 children, who were victims of trafficking, with their parents on Monday. In February 2020, the children aged between two and 13 years, were deceptively taken from their parents in Lapai in Niger State by one Emmanuel Abraham, 30, and Nkechi Udoh, 53, under the pretext of providing them education.
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By Lawani Mikairu Global Initiative against Illegal Migration, GIAIM, has reiterated its resolve to continue to support the eradication of human trafficking and illegal migration. The Executive Director, GIAIM , Barrister Obinyan Emmanuel, disclosed this during a one day seminar on human trafficking and illegal migration in Lagos. The seminar with the theme, ” Youth
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By Bose Adelaja Nemesis has caught up with a 35 years old human trafficking kingpin, Comfort Innocent, who was apprehended by men of the Nigeria Police Force, Ogun State Command. The suspect was apprehended last Thursday, over the abduction and trafficking of two under-aged girls. Vanguard gathered that her arrest followed a report by one
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By Ebunoluwa Sessou A non-governmental organisation, Make Me Elegant Foundation has empowered 5000 young women as part of an initiative to rescue and repatriate women and young girls who are victims of human trafficking and modern-day slavery. The foundation disclosed it recently rescued a number of Nigerian girls from Lebanon and Oman, noting that
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By Jane Ikemefula NEMESIS caught up with an evil-hearted uncle of three orphans, whose mother was buried last week, when he wanted to traffic the eldest of the children to Ghana, perhaps into a life of servitude. The three siblings, indigenes of Enyingba community in Abakaliki council area of Ebonyi, were said to have lost
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The Police Command in Katsina State has arrested a human trafficking kingpin, Abubakar Habibu, in Daura Local Government Area of the state. This command’s spokesman, SP Gambo Isah, said in a statement in Kastina on Saturday that the suspect was arrested at a police checkpoint along Kongolom-Daura Road, Daura, on Aug. 11. According to him,
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The Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment has denied any involvement in illegal issuance of Recruiters’ Licence to Private Employment Agencies, PEAs, for human trafficking.
Read More By Gabriel Ewepu Nigeria is a country with one of the largest human population in the world, which it is currently the largest in Africa, and by implication, the human resource is astronomically high, which the young population is enormous and has become vulnerable to human traffickers over the years. This challenge of human trafficking
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By Andy Asemota Katsina State Police Command has arrested no fewer than nine suspected Europe bound victims of human traffickers at the state’s border. The six girls and three young men were intercepted by the joint border patrol team attached to Mai’adua division at about 12 noon last Saturday, July 25, on transit to Libya
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By Gabriel Ewepu and Fortune Eromosele NEW KARU-AHEAD of the World Day Against Human Trafficking, a Nongovernmental organisation, NGO, Secure D Future, SDF, International Initiative, Nigeria, Tuesday, called on government at all levels and Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, and other stakeholders to step up public awareness and sensitization on human trafficking. The call was made
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