Tag: NAPTIP

“Don’t leave your children with untrusted friends, neighbours” – NAPTIP

Aminu Imam
NAPTIP

The Director-General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Binta Adamu Bello, has cautioned parents across the country against leaving their children in the care of casual friends, untrusted neighbours, and one–off service providers, saying that such a situation makes children vulnerable to trafficking and theft. She stated this during the reunification of a five-year-old victim, Rahama Ibrahim, with her parents in Damaturu, Yobe State. The Director-General was represented by Saleh Zakar, the Commander, Yobe State Command. Recall that Rahama was abducted in Damaturu a…

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Tinubu appoints new DG NAPTIP, 6 others

Aminu Imam
Tinubu appoints

President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of seven persons to head strategic agencies and programmes under the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development. This was contained in an issued statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale yesterday evening, titled: President Bola Tinubu appoints new heads of agencies and programmes under the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development. The new appointees and their offices are: Director-General, National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons…

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“We have more of internal trafficking than external trafficking in Nigeria” NAPTIP DG

Aminu Imam

The Director-General, National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Dr. Fatima Waziri-Azi, says there is more internal trafficking than external trafficking. Waziri-Azi disclosed this on Thursday in Benin at a meeting she held with stakeholders and partners of the agency in Edo. She explained that this was because 83% of trafficking in Nigeria happened within States, within communities, and across State lines, adding that only 12% accounts for trans-border trafficking. Waziri-Azi sued for more sensitisation of the public against human trafficking, noting that there was huge ignorance…

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Police rescue seven victims of human trafficking in Katsina

Aminu Imam

Katsina State Police Command has rescued seven victims of human trafficking in Mai’adua local government area of the State. Spokesman for the Command, SP Gambo, who confirmed the development in a statement on Thursday, said that the victims were rescued following a raid on a criminal hideout at Yankara village. According to Gambo, the rescued victims were en route to Libya through the Niger Republic border. On 20/01/2022 at about 1120hrs, based on credible intelligence, the Command raided a criminal hideout at Yankara village, Koza District, Maiadua LGA of Katsina…

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Plateau: NAPTIP detains Lebanese for alleged child defilement

Aminu Imam

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, (NAPTIP), has detained a 61-year-old Lebanese, Kfouri Suleiman, for alleged defilement of minors in Jos, Plateau State. The NAPTIP’s Head of Press and Public Relations, Stella Nezan, who disclosed this in a statement yesterday, said Suleiman, who is a civil engineer, used the girls for pornography after defiling them. She added that the suspect was arrested by the Police in Plateau last week and handed over to the agency. Suleiman, according to the NAPTIP spokesperson, has lived in Nigeria for…

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Buhari appoints Sulaiman-Ibrahim new NAPTIP D-G

Aminu Imam

Sacks Okah-Donli  President Muhammadu Buhari, has appointed Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim as the new Director-General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, (NAPTIP).  This was contained in a statement yesterday by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu.  The President also sacked the erstwhile D-G, of the agency, Julie Okah-Donli, a lawyer from the South-South zone, who was appointed by President Buhari to head the agency in April 2017.  According to the statement, which was titled: President Buhari Appoints Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim as…

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Human Trafficking: NAPTIP rescues 292 Ebonyi indigenes

Ishaku Yohanna

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) at the weekend said it has rescued over 292 females and males from Ebonyi State from child labour and sexual exploitations. The Director-General of the Agency, Dame Julie Okah-Donli, made this known during the inauguration of a taskforce to prohibit human trafficking in state, which took place at the Old government house Abakaliki, Ebonyi State. She noted that the taskforce will assist the agency to clampdown offenders, especially in Ebonyi where numerous children are been abused on daily basis.…

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Teacher arrested for sodomising underage students in Kano

Ishaku Yohanna

A Thirty-five (35) year-old teacher identified as Ibrahim Mohammed has been arrested by operatives of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) for allegedly sodomising two of his underage students. This was coming as the command said it has also arrested one suspected human trafficker and rescued six victims. The NAPTIP Zonal Commander in Kano, Shehu Umar confirmed this while speaking with newsmen on Friday. Umar said the command on a tip-off arrested Mohammed for turning his students to sex-machine. The offence is punishable to NAPTIP…

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NAPTIP arrests man accused of raping 12 boys

Ishaku Yohanna

The National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Person (NAPTIP) has arrested a labourer, Lawalli Bala, of Rikina village in Dange/Shuni Local Government Area of Sokoto State for alleged homosexuality. Mr Bala was alleged to have sodomised 12 underage children in the night when parents of the children were sleeping. Mitika Mafa-Ali, the NAPTIP zonal head in charge of Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara States, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Sokoto. Mr Mafa-Ali said the suspect, aged 30, was a labourer working for the…

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