Tag Archives: Exploitation

Names marked with an asterisk have been changed to protect identities.  After a night of selling roses in Tuscany, Mohammed* was cycling along a seaside road when someone in a passing car hit him on the back with a pole. He fell to the ground. It was August 2013 and …

Niger State Police Command has arrested a 25-year-old ‘physically challenged’ man for alleged sexual exploitation of minors in Minna.      Spokesperson of the command, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, who disclosed this in a statement on Friday, November 10, 2023, said the suspect, Abubakar Hussaini, was arrested for procuration of minor …

A 56-year-old woman, Nma Lilian Achumba has been remanded in Nigeria Correctional Centre, Afara, Umuahia by a Magistrate Court sitting in Umuahia, for allegedly recruiting and abducting 21 young girls for sexual exploitation and child trafficking.   The accused was charged with recruiting and abducting young girls and exploiting them …

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking In Persons (NAPTIP) has busted a human trafficking syndicate and arrested two suspects.   The suspects, Waukomis Chidiebere Chukwu and Joseph Okoi Nka, were paraded at the agency’s Headquarters on Friday, June 16, 2023.    In a press briefing, the Director General …

The model posted photos from a campaign for the Spanish high-fashion brand on Instagram before swiftly removing the post due to the backlash that came with it. The high-end fashion brand is being criticised for a photoshoot featuring children holding teddy bears dressed in BDSM-style attire. Critics have knocked Balenciaga …

An art exhibition in Juba, supported by the UN mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), seeks to educate people about gender and sexual based violence. Credit: UNMISS/Nektarios Markogiannis Opinion by Anwarul K. Chowdhury (new york) Tuesday, November 08, 2022 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Nov 08 (IPS) – Calling it “so disappointing …

The rush of clubs to squeeze rival players into their squads ahead of the transfer deadline to boost their title hopes has irked Darren Lockyer, leaving the rugby league legend irritated by the “strange sort of feel”. Lockyer has expressed his disappointment in the late-season swoops of some clubs before …

Mit Al Korama’s youth (left) spent five months at the warehouse waiting for the trip to Italy (Ahmed Emad is in the middle and Ibrahim Abdullah is on the left). The group (right) during their kidnapping ordeal by Libyan militias. The group were waiting for the ransom to be paid. …