Tag: Illegal Exports

Illegal Export Shipping: $46.16bn lost to oil theft in 12 years – NEITI claims

Aminu Imam

The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, (NEITI), yesterday backed the decision of the Federal Government to set up Special Investigative Panel on Oil Theft and Losses, claiming that the country has lost 619.7 million barrels of crude oil valued at $46.16 billion or N16.25 trillion in twelve years from (2009 to 2020). NEITI in a statement by the Head, Communications and Advocacy, Obiageli Onuorah in Abuja explained that the losses were from theft and sabotage based on information and data provided by an average of eight companies covered by NEITI…

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China seizes 7,221 human male organs in container from Nigeria

Aminu Imam

Chinese Customs officers have made the world’s biggest seizure of human organs in history this morning, a total of 7,221 penises of African origin hidden in a refrigerated freight container, according to World Daily News Report. Acting on information from an anonymous informer, Chinese officers found the organs in 36 boxes labelled as plantains (cooking bananas) inside a refrigerated container on a ship harboured in the Shanghai Port. Chinese General Administration of Customs spokesman, Li Wu, says an increasingly large number of armed groups in Africa use organ trafficking to…

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