By Agency Report The Director-General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Binta Adamu Bello, has directed an immediate investigation into mounting allegations levelled against Dr Daniel Olukoya, the General Overseer of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM). The allegations include sexual abuse, intimidation, and exploitation. Vincent Adekoye, […]
By Theresa Donatus The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has suspended its Chief Driver, Mr. Akwaowo Jonah Emmanuel, from his duties at the Uyo Zonal Office in Akwa Ibom State, following allegations of gross sexual violation and exploitation of minors and victims under NAPTIP’s care. The suspension, announced on February […]
BY CHUKWUEMEKE IWELUNMO The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), has recorded a breakthrough in its efforts to arrest issues of sextortion in Nigeria, as it has apprehended some members of a notorious cult known for perpetrating gruesome acts of sextortion and terrorising young girls and other residents of the FCT […]
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) on Tuesday in Abuja kick-started sensitisation and Inauguration of vanguards against human trafficking in all military secondary schools nationwide. The exercise, supported by the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), was held at Command Day Secondary School Abuja. Part of the goal for […]
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) in Anambra said it received over 30 petitions within its 12 months of operation. Mrs Judith Chukwu, Commander of the agency in the State disclosed this in an interview with newsmen in Awka, as part of the ongoing 16-Day Activism Against Gender Based Violence. […]
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) says it has rescued 100 children and apprehended 120 suspected traffickers within six months in Akwa Ibom. Mr Ubong Ekwere, Uyo Zonal Commander of NAPTIP, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interview in Uyo on Friday. Ekwere was giving […]
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) says it plans to scale-up campaign to mitigate the rising incidences of child labour in the FCT. The Director General of the agency, Dr Fatima Waziri-Azi, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja. While expressing […]
*Says 17, 00 victims rescued, 550 traffickers jailed By Success Nwogu Director General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Senator Basheer Garba Muhammed, has expressed mixed feeling over the recent United States Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report which elevated Nigeria from the previous Tier 2 Watch list to Tier […]
Success Nwogu The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) said it has taken into custody a 61 year old civil engineer, who is a Lebanese, Mr. Kfouri Sleiman, (AKA Simo) for alleged involvement in the defilement of minors and using them for pornographic activities in Jos, the Plateau State Capital. A […]
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) says some Nigerians now take children to Niger Republic to get assistance from the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). Addressing journalists on Friday, NAPTIP north-west zonal commander, Abdullahi Babale, said the agency has received eight rescued under-aged children and arrested two suspected human traffickers […]
By Julie Okah Donli I was on a flight when I overheard two women having a conversation. As usual, I would have ignored and concentrated on the book I was reading but then, how could I concentrate when the topic of the discussion revolves around an area of interest and one that I had spent […]
National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) on Thursday said it apprehended no fewer than 116 human traffickers and rescued 1,489 victims in four years. The Zonal Commander in charge of Kano, Mr Shehu Umar, made this known in an interview in Kano. Umar said that the command received 1,516 cases which […]
National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Kano State Command said it has recorded 29 human trafficking and sexual abuse cases in the state from January till date the Kano Zonal Commander, Alhaji Shehu Umar, disclosed. Umar said the cases involved two external human trafficking, two internal human trafficking, five child’s labour […]
Nigerians who justify rape now run the risk of getting arrested as suspects, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has said. The warning comes on the heels of reports of incease in rape cases across the country. Just on Tuesday, the Police said a 21-year-old National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) […]
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has urged state governors to domesticate the Violence Against Person Prohibition Act (VAPP) over incessant rape cases in the country. Director General of the agency, Mrs. Julie Okah-Donli, who made the call at a news conference on Wednesday in Abuja, noted that such domestication […]
The National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking In Persons (NAPTIP), says it will collaborate with Bayelsa state government and relevant security agencies to combat human trafficking and other related offences in the state. Zonal Commander of NAPTIP, Benin Zonal Command, Mrs. Ijeoma Uduak, said this on Tuesday in Yenagoa. The command comprises Edo, Delta and […]
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, (NAPTIP), has called on the Labanese government to unconditionally release the ten remaining trafficked victims currently held in their custody. The ten Nigerian girls according to NAPTIP were victims of human trafficking deboarded by the Lebanese authorities at the last minut0e and could not return […]