Tag: human trafficking
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Lagos Police arrest two for human trafficking, rescue three victims
The Police in Lagos have rescued three young women and arrested two suspected human traffickers who allegedly lured them from the South-East with job promises in the state. The Commissioner of Police in Lagos, CP Imohimi Edgal, confirmed the reports at a press briefing on Monday in Ikeja. Edgal said that the suspects were using…
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NAPTIP rescues 13,000, rehabilitates 8,000 trafficked persons
Dame Julie Okah-Donli, Director-General, National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), said no fewer than 13,000 trafficked persons have been rescued by the agency. Okah-Donli disclosed this in an interview with the Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York at the premiere of a movie about human trafficking…
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Insecurity, trafficking: Nigerian artistes storm UN headquarters
Some Nigerian women artistes on Sunday night “locked down” the UN headquarters complex in New York to spotlight various themes such as human trafficking, suicide bombing, and sexism and sexual harassment. Tagged ‘Unity in Diversity: An evening of art and hope with Nigerian women’, it was meant to show the strength of women as agents…
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Edo state parleys native doctors in fight against human trafficking
Governor Godwin Obaseki has commended the initiative of the Oba of Benin, His Royal Majesty, Omo N’Oba N’Edo, Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewuare II, to engage all priests, priestesses, native doctors, traditional chiefs, market women and village heads on ways to curb human trafficking, kidnapping and other security challenges in the state. TheNewsGuru reports the Benin…
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Trafficking: Edo govt. seeks UN, EU partnership on returnees’ resettlement, empowerment
Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has commenced talks with the British High Commission and the United Nations Women on areas of partnership spanning resettlement of victims of human trafficking and empowerment. The meetings with the two International bodies held on the sideline of the Senate Roundtable on Migration and Human Trafficking, which held in…
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Saraki, Dambazau, EU back Edo Govt.’s fight against human trafficking
The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, Minister of Interior, Lt. Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau and the European Union have thrown their weight behind the Edo State government’s efforts at combating the scourge of human trafficking and illegal migration. At a Senate Round-table on Migration and Human Trafficking held in Benin City, the Edo State Capital, on…
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NAPTIP engages ‘witch doctors’ to fight human trafficking
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, has engaged the services of local witch doctors in Benin, Edo State to curb trafficking in persons. The state, and in particular its capital city, Benin, is reputed to have the largest cases of human trafficking in Nigeria. NAPTIP said it has gathered witch…
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Slave Trade, Human Trafficking: AU, EU must collaborate to tackle menace in Libya – Onyeama
The Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama has called for a joint declaration by the African Union and European Union on the issue of slave trade and other crimes against humanity in Libya. Onyeama who made the call at the Ministerial meeting of the just concluded 5th African Union- European Union Summit in Abidjan, Cote…
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FG reinstates commitment to zero tolerance for human trafficking
The Federal Government has restated commitment to zero intolerance for human trafficking, saying it had put in place strong measures to reduce the menace to the barest minimum in the country. The Ambassador/Permanent Representative of Nigeria to Vienna, Mrs Vivian Okeke, stated this in New York, at the High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on…