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  • VIDEO: We regret coming here, please help us, over 20 Nigerian girls stranded in one room in Lebanon

    VIDEO: We regret coming here, please help us, over 20 Nigerian girls stranded in one room in Lebanon

    A viral video of over twenty Nigerian ladies stranded in Lebanon are pleading with President Muhammadu Buhari and spirited individuals to come to their rescue.

    Locked up in one room and pleading seriously to be rescued in a video circulating online, the ladies who only God knows how they left the country for Lebanon called out to popular men of God as well as influential politicians and honorables to help bring them back.

    We regret coming to this place, we want to come back to our father land, the ladies pleaded.

    Watch video below:

    https://www.instagram.com/tv/CDT-HZfjBDa/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

  • 69 stranded Nigerians arrive from Lebanon

    69 stranded Nigerians arrive from Lebanon

    Fifty trafficked girls and 19 stranded Nigerians arrived from Lebanon on Sunday night.

    Their evacuation was at the expense of the Lebanese authorities.

    The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, disclosed these via his verified Twitter handle.

    He tweeted: “With the financial and logistic support of the Lebanese Government and Lebanese community in Nigeria, 50 trafficked Nigerian girls and 19 stranded Nigerians were successfully evacuated from Lebanon and arrived Nigeria today.”

    It was gathered they will be moved to Abuja where they will observe the 14-day compulsory isolation in line with protocol aimed at containing the spread of COVID-19.

    In the last two weeks, the Federal Government has evacuated close to 1,000 from U.K, U.S, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirate.

  • [Video] FG secures release of Nigerian woman put up for sale on Facebook by Lebanese

    [Video] FG secures release of Nigerian woman put up for sale on Facebook by Lebanese

    Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), on Tuesday, said the Nigerian woman, Peace Busari Ufuoma, who was put on sale by a Lebanese has been released.

    Dabiri said the 30-year-old Oyo indigene was released to the Nigerian Embassy, Lebanon Beirut on Tuesday.

    TheNewsGuru(TNG) had reported that Jerro, who resides in Beirut Lebanon, sent in an image alongside the data page of the 30-year-old Nigerian, Peace Busari Ufuoma to a Facebook group called ‘Buy and Sell Lebanon.’

    The culprit had placed a $1,000 bill on the domestic worker.

    Also, the Lebanese Government had last week arrested Wael Jerro.

    Confirming Ufuoma’s release, Dabiri on Twitter wrote, ”Update on Nigerian girl put up for sale Lebanese, Wael Jerro on Facebook.

    “She has been rescued and safely with officials of the Nigerian Mission in Beirut. More updates later,” she added.

  • Oyo ensures safety of indigene put up for sale in Lebanon

    Oyo ensures safety of indigene put up for sale in Lebanon

    The Oyo State Government has pledged to ensure the safe return of an indigene of the state identified as Peace Ufuoma Busari who was recently put up for sale on the internet in Lebanon for $1000.

    The government’s pledge was contained in a statement issued in Ibadan by Mrs Bolanle Sarumi-Aliyu, the Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Diaspora to Gov. Seyi Makinde.

    Sarumi-Aliyu said the state was liaising with the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) to facilitate the lady’s safe return home.

    The governor’s aide, who said that the victim was yet to be located, called on citizens of Oyo State who might know her, especially her family members, to call cell phone number 07025512891.

    Sarumi-Aliyu commended NIDCOM for the role it had been playing in the matter.

    “We will continue to liaise and collaborate with Mrs Abike Dabiri and work with the Federal Government to ensure our citizen is returned home safely.

    “We also call on the citizens of Oyo State who may know this lady, especially her family, to please contact the SSA on Diaspora to the Governor of Oyo State so we can work with the family to understand how the lady left the country,” she said.

    Sarumi-Aliyu said the state government would not tolerate the trafficking of its indigenes to foreign countries.

    “We, however, need the full cooperation of those leaving the country so that we may be there to assist them if the need arises.

    “We want to be able to guarantee the safety of our citizens leaving the country henceforth.

    “The Oyo State Government wants to know the whereabouts of Peace Ufuoma Busari and my discussion with the DG NIDCOM indicated that her commission has been able to secure a promise from the Lebanese mission to find her and hand her over to us.

    “We want to advise the Lebanese government to kindly fast-track the process of locating Peace Ufuoma Busari and handing her over to us,” Sarumi-Aliyu stated.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Dabiri-Erewa had taken up the case of Busari after one Wael Jerros had put her up for sale for $1000 in Lebanon.

    The Lebanese government had described the act as inhuman and had immediately launched a manhunt for Jerros.

    He was eventually arrested on April 21 and would be prosecuted for human trafficking.

  • NIS arrests nine girls en route India, Lebanon, Dubai

    The Operatives of Nigeria Immigration Service, Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Command in Lagos, has apprehended another nine girls being trafficked.

    The girls were on their way to Lebanon, Cairo, Dubai, and India on Ethiopian, Peace, Egypt and East Airlines.

    The service Public Relations Officer, DCI Sunday James, made this known in a statement on Saturday in Lagos.

    According to him, four of the girls claim to be traveling for employment without knowing their employers nor aware of the nature of the job they were going for.

    “This discovery was made after intensive interrogation by NIS officials,” he said.

    James said the shady journey was organised by agents who took advantage of the girls’ innocence and ignorance.

    He disclosed that two of the girls had earlier claimed to be going for a visit.

    “However, the two, later confessed they were going for hustle in Dubai. Another three, of the girls, claimed they were going to India for medical treatment without referrals.

    “When further asked the nature of sickness, they said yellow fever before they finally confessed to going for hustle in India,” he said.

    He said NIS refused their departure to save them from indignity to be faced from such journeys.

    “The Comptroller-General of NIS, Mr Muhammad Babandede, therefore, called on parents to be wary of juicy offers on their children, from family and non-family members to take the children abroad.

    “Most of these trips are deceitful, camouflaged with employment, studies or visit which may end up in exploitation or death. Operatives at the various entry and exit points will never permit them departure.

    “The NIS stepped-up clearance operation that is yielding positive result in the various arrest made at the borders of the country by NIS.”

     

  • Trafficked Nigerian woman in Lebanon rescued

    Trafficked Nigerian woman in Lebanon rescued

    A Nigerian woman trafficked to Lebanon, Omolola Ajayi, has been rescued and now in the custody of Nigerian embassy in Beirut.

    The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), in a WhatsApp message, said Ms. Ajayi would be return to Nigeria soon.

    “Update on the viral video of trafficked Nigerian girl in Lebanon. She is now happily in the hands of the Nigerian Ambassador in Beirut, received warmly and happy to be in safe hands. She will be home soon by God’s grace,” the message read.

    Ajayi, 23, a single mother from Osun State, was fraudulently recruited as a teacher but sold as a domestic slave in Lebanon.

    Her video, in which she pleaded for assistance to be rescued, went viral on social media. In the video, Ajayi alleged that her employer had tried on several occassions to abuse her without success.

    “My plan was to be teaching pupils English Language in Lebanon. On getting here, the person that brought me seized my passport. I was wondering what happened. I later knew I had been sold off to slavery,” she said.

    “If I am sick, they won’t take me to hospital. They will only give me drugs. Half of the people whom we came here together have died. I am appealing to Family Life Support to come to my aid. I don’t want to die here. I need help to return home.

    “The person I live with wants to rape me but I have been resisting him. He collected my phone and said he would not give me the phone until I accept to have sex with him. It is when he sleeps or goes out that I manage to pick the phone where he keeps it,” she added. Kwara State governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, had said he was “horrified” by the video footage.

    “I implore citizens to work with us to put an end to such horrific activity by exposing the perpetrators,” the governor wrote on Twitter last week.

    The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps said three suspects including two Nigerians and a Lebanese had been arrested in connection with the trafficking of the Kwara-based lady.

    Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/trafficked-nigerian-woman-in-lebanon-rescued.html

  • British radio presenter found dead in Lebanon

    A British radio presenter well-known in Lebanon, where he worked at a radio station, was found dead in his home in the North-East village of Beit Mery on Tuesday, police said on Tuesday.

    “We suspect it is a murder, but we do not know the circumstances yet,’’ a police officer, who requested anonymity, said.

    Gavin Ford presented a popular morning show on the Radio One FM music station in Lebanon.

    Reports say the breakfast show host was murdered in his apartment and his car was stolen.

    His body was found on Tuesday at his address in the town of Beit Mery, just outside Beirut.

    The station posted the sad news on its Facebook page.

    “We are heartbroken to announce the passing of our dear Gavin Ford, a member of our team for many joyful years.

    “We extend our deepest sympathies to his family, friends and colleagues all over the world,’’ the statement said.

    According to police, the British embassy in Beirut is assisting local investigators.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that as many as 49 journalists were killed around the world in the first six months of 2018, according to the International Press Institute (IPI).