•Binta Adamu Bello The Director-General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Binta Adamu Bello, has revealed some of the tactics deployed by human traffickers to lure victims. She said traffickers lure victims with fake job opportunities and scholarships in some destination countries, and also recruit ...
The federal government has expressed concern that human traffickers are increasingly using digital platforms to lure and exploit victims. The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), raised the alarm in Abuja yesterday. Fagbemi described the situation as a fast-evolving and borderless threat that demand...
•Senate The Senate has approved the death sentence as a penalty for drug traffickers in the country, as it passes through the third reading, the 2024 NDLEA Act (Amendment) Bill. The proposal was adopted today when the Senate dissolved into a committee of the whole for a clause-by-clause consideration of a report of the Chairman […]
•Traffickers CHIMA AZUBUIKE writes about the arrest of an alleged child trafficking syndicate by the police in Gombe State and how the victims were sold to buyers with the connivance of government officials, reports Saturday PUNCH. I have boys as children; I only wanted to have a girl-child,” was the excuse given by Mrs Tina […]
•NDLEA operatives at work NDLEA has arrested three visually-impaired men operating an illicit drug ring between Lagos and Kano. A fourth equally disabled member of the gang is still at large. NDLEA’s Director, Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi stated today in Abuja that the lid was blown off the group following the arrest of […]

