A 36-year old Nigerian mother of one, Franka Asemota, was last week arrested in Benin City, the Edo state capital, and extradited to the United Kingdom. She was accused of being Ring Leader of an International child sex smuggling gang. The arrest which was carried out by men of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons (NAPTIP) who …

Cross River State Command of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria recently arrested a man suspected to be a child trafficker in Abana, Bakassi Local Government Area of Cross River State just as two victims were rescued. The State Commander, Vigilante Group of Nigeria, Dr. Mercy Effiom made this known in her Calabar office while addressing members of the press. …

Fifteen-year-old Precious Nwaigwe, the Ogun schoolgirl that was abducted in the Ajah area of Lagos State by kidnappers based in Niger Republic, has been sold to men suspected to be pimps in Libya. The victim’s mother, Blessing, said that investigations by the police had also shown that one of their relatives was involved in the kidnapping. It was …

A notorious child trafficker in Abia, Mrs. Mma Achumba, who has been on the wanted list of various security agencies has been arrested in Akwa Ibom where she has been hiding. The police described Achumba as Abia’s most wanted child trafficker and that she had evaded arrest for over five years. Achumba whose illegal maternity home at Umunkpeyi in Isialangwa …

Four notorious suspected human traffickers have been caught by the Immigrations Service, Oyo State Command, while allegedly attempting to smuggle a nursing mother along with her two-year-old son, nine girls, and a boy. The suspects and their victims were apprehended at the Saki border, in Oke-Ogun area of Oyo State. The four men were accused of involvement …