Tag Archives: Prostitution

Italian police has arrested a Nigerian woman for allegedly forcing young women and girls who arrive from Nigeria, into prostitution by using voodoo locally know as ‘juju,’ as a threat.   The suspect who is believed to be the ‘Madame’ of a sex trafficking ring was arrested in the Puglia …

Dillon Jordan, a Hollywood movie producer who was behind Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Kindergarten Teacher has been sentenced to five years in prison after he admitted operating a prostitution service for well-known producers for seven years.   Jordan, 50, provided women to wealthy clients for up to $15,000 and organized sex …

The Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Chief Magistrate Court, sitting in Awka, Anambra State, has sentenced a 35-year-old woman, Success James, to prison for offences of child labor, child exploitation, abduction of children and child stealing.     The convict was earlier apprehended at Onitsha and arraigned before the Chief …

Justice Phoeba Ayua of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has sentenced a 35-year-old woman, Amadi Joy Ngozi, to three years imprisonment for human trafficking.    The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) in a statement on Thursday, January 19, 2023, said Amadi was …

Officers of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) have rescued three teenagers from prostitution at the Itamaga area of Ikorodu, Lagos State.   Spokesperson of the Lagos State Police Command, Benjamin Hundeyin, who disclosed this in a statement on Friday, January 13, 2023, identified the victims as Saviour, 14, Bright, 13 and …

Advertisement Controversial actor, Uche Maduagwu, has slammed Nigerian billionaire and politician, Ned Nwoko, over claims that men are responsible for the high increase in prostitution. Naija News earlier reported that the former lawmaker in an interview with the Guardian said if Nigerian men marry more than one wife the narrative …

Ned Nwoko has blamed southern Nigerian men for contributing to prostitution in society by shunning polygamy.   The politician, who is married to actress Regina Daniels, said this in a recent interview with The Guardian.   He said: “Many women are out there on their own without husbands, especially in the southern …

Eight Nigerian women have been arrested in Libya for alleged involvement in prostitution.    According to Migrant Rescue Watch, police raided a house in Kufra district and arrested the women on charges of prostitution.   A Nigerian man said to be a pimp was also arrested during the raid.   “Police following an investigation …

A 49-year-old man, Amoda Bola, was on August 17 arrested by men of the Ogun state Police command for allegedly impregnating his 14-year-old biological daughter (name withheld). The suspect, a resident of Idi Oro street, Ode Remo was arrested following a complaint received from the victim, who reported at Ode …

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, Rivers State, says it has arrested a woman identified as Blessing Iniedem for allegedly forcing a 16-year-old girl into prostitution at a brothel in the Mile Three axis of Port Harcourt, the state capital.   The state NAPTIP Commander, Amaka Ikediashi, …