Tag: HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Tonto Dikeh named NAPTIP ambassador
The National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), on Friday, applauded the humanitarian gesture of Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh, to the less...
Why we engaged witch doctors to fight human trafficking – NAPTIP
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has restated its engagement of witch doctors to improve prosecution cases of human...
NAPTIP engages witch doctors to fight human trafficking in Edo
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) says it has engaged some local witch doctors in Benin, Edo, as ambassadors...
Nigerian loses nursing license in UK for enslaving nanny
Abimbola Adewakun, a nurse of Nigerian descent who, along with his doctor wife, kept a nanny as a slave for two years at their...
Actress Stephanie Okereke Linus in Italy to advocate for trafficked victims
Nollywood actress Stephanie Okereke Linus, in partnership with international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors without Borders (MSF), is currently in Italy, to advocate for victims...
Nigerian couple sentenced to jail in U.S. for enslaving nanny
A Nigerian couple will go to jail after holding a fellow Nigerian captive as an unpaid maid and nanny for two years in a...
Slavery: Nigerian couple to pay nanny N44million in U.S.
A Nigerian couple in Houston who pleaded guilty to federal charges related to forcing a woman to work nearly 20 hours taking care of...
6 Nigerians arrested in Italy for trafficking women
Police in southern Italy have arrested seven people on charges of trafficking Nigerian women for prostitution.
Italy's Carabinieri said Tuesday that one Italian and six...
Obaseki appoints SSA on human trafficking, illegal migration
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo as appointed human rights activist, Solomon Okoduwa, as senior special assistant (SSA) on human trafficking and illegal migration.
Mr Okoduwa,...
Pastor arrested for hypnotising students, running sex camp
A self-anointed pastor has been arrested by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Lagos State Command, for allegedly running a human trafficking...