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Traffickers

NAPTIP task Bayelsa govt for office to pursue Trafficking cases

Aderogba George Oct 9, 2020 0

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has asked the Bayelsa Government to provide it an office accommodation to enable it to pursue trafficking cases.The NAPTIP Director General, Mrs Julie…

Foreign

One of Europe’s Most Wanted Traffickers Extradited to Romania

Halima Sheji Feb 14, 2020 0

Britain has extradited one of Europe’s most wanted organised criminals to Romania, where he faces charges including human trafficking, murder and money laundering, police said on Friday.Romanian authorities accused Florin…

World

UN says traffickers using Facebook to broadcast abuse, torture

Uju Aug 25, 2017 0

Traffickers are using Facebook to broadcast the abuse and torture of migrants in order to extort ransom money from their families, the UN migration agency said on Friday.The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) lambasted the…

Metro

Customs officer arraigned for trafficking cannabis

Uju Jun 22, 2017 0

A Federal High Court in Lagos, on Thursday, ordered that a former Customs Officer, Mr Emmanuel Ugwoke, charged with drug trafficking, should be remanded in prison.Ugwoke, resident in Badagry in Lagos State, was said to have been…

Entertainment

Ashton Kutcher testifies at hearing to end modern slavery

Jide Feb 16, 2017

..... rescues 6,000 sex trafficking victims, arrests over 2,000 traffickers Movie actor, Ashton Kutcher testified at a hearing at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday in the hopes of ending modern…

Metro

I performed not less than 320 abortions, Human Trafficking victim confesses

Owolabi Oluwasegun Apr 3, 2016 0

26-year-old Abigail Olori Narrates her experience in the hands of a couple, Alhaja Latifat and her husband who upon first contact seemed to be angels when they offered her a trip to Italy to work as an auxiliary nurse but unknown to her, it…