A 36-year-old man in Abuja, identified as Kevin, has been arrested by the Karmo Division of the FCT Police Command for allegedly selling his own child to a Port Harcourt, Rivers State based woman. According to the police, Kevin had deceived his girlfriend and mother of the child that he was taking the toddler to his sister but ended up selling the child. …

A wicked young woman identified as Faith Nuhu, has been arrested after she kidnapped three of her elder sister’s children from their home in Kafanchan, Kaduna State, and took them to Owerri, Imo State, where she sold her two kids to one Evelyn Ojiaku who runs a maternity home for N600,000. Nuhu who was arrested by detectives from the Abuja Police …

LAGOS—A couple and a trado- medical practitioner have been arrested over alleged sale of a two-week and four-day- -old baby for N136,000, at Ipaja area of Lagos. The principal suspect, Mr Onolaja Olawale, a trado-medical practitioner,  was alleged to have sold the baby to Mr and Mrs Dele  Ayogbile, who have been barren for six years  years,   …

THE police at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Owerri, Imo State have arrested a woman, Chioma Anoruo, who has confessed to selling about 19 children to ritualists. Mrs. Anoruo was arrested by the Orlu community local vigilance led by their chairman, Innocent Anokwute. She was subsequently handed over to the police. During the …

The Abia State Police Command has launched a manhunt for a man, identified simply as Uchenna, from Owerri- Aba, for allegedly stealing a four month- old baby boy, who he gave to his girlfriend, Kelechi Uche, to sell. The state Police Commissioner, Joshak Habila, who paraded Uche in Umuahia, said she was arrested by some members of the public at Osusu …

Rev. Egbochiogum (right), his wife, Ugo ( middle), and Mba   A 71- year old retired pastor of a pentecostal church in Abriba, Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia State, Rev. Chima Egbochiogum, and his wife, Ugo, have been arrested for an alleged illegal adoption of a baby. Commissioner of Police, Joshak Habila, who paraded the couple in Umuahia, …

A 70-year-old woman, Zenab Alabi, has been arrested by the Kwara State Police Command for allegedly kidnapping a three-year-old girl, Fatiah Mustapha. A relative of the girl’s mother, Mrs. Maryam Abdulganiyu, said Mustapha got missing on March 25, 2015. She stated that the victim had been living with her parents at old Shao Garage, Ilorin before she …

In a long overdue move, the Fed­eral Government has prohibited the employment of children below the age of 12 as domestic helps in a new Act signed by President Goodluck Jonathan. Christened the Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Enforcement and Administration Act 2015, the new law recommends a prison term of two years and a possible fine for violators. …

A 43-year-old General Overseer of Divine Order of Cherubim Church, Prophet Ndubuisi Oke­obi has been arrested by opera­tives of Scorpion Squad of the Imo State police command for allegedly specialis­ing in organising crusades where he in­vites pregnant women who deliver their babies in his church and thereafter sells the babies for between N300,000 …

Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested  Pastor John  (other names withheld) and his wife, Deborah, over alleged abduction of a new born baby. A police source, said the couple abducted the baby  to allegedly sell him for N300,000.00.  The pastor allegedly had a link with a  child trafficking syndicate operating   at Nung Ukot Itam, Itu Local …