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Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA have arrested three blind men operating an illicit drug ring between Lagos and Kano.    A statement released by Femi Babafemi, spokesperson of the agency says another blind member of the syndicate is still at large.    Babafemi said the lid …

The Narcotics Suppression Bureau (NSB) of the Royal Thai Police, in cooperation with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) of the United States, has arrested eight members of a Nigerian-led transnational drug network.    Pol. Lt. Gen. Kirisak Tantinwachai, acting commissioner of the Narcotics Suppression Bureau, who disclosed this at a …

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 …

A Nigerian man, Adeyefa Adedamola Adetoye, accused of human trafficking, appeared in the Kimberley District Court, Northern Cape Province, in South Africa on Tuesday, October 17, 2023.    Adetoye, 38, was arrested after an intelligence-driven multi-disciplinary operation by the Hawks and other police units on Sunday, October 15, led them …

The Special Cell of the Delhi Police on Thursday, October 12, arrested two Nigerian nationals and one Sierra Leone woman suspected to be members of an international drug syndicate.   According to the police, the suspects, Paul Joy from Sierra Leone, Peace Ilobe and Stephen, both from Nigeria, were found …

Men of the Ondo State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) have arrested two suspected members of a child trafficking syndicate for their luring young girls to Libya allegedly for prostitution.    The two suspects, Babatunde Oluwasola, a.k.a ‘Osanle and Fowowe Dada, were arrested following a …

A 20-year-old man, Aondoaseer Agbadu, has been arraigned before a Magistrate’s Court sitting in Makurdi, Benue State for allegedly harvesting and selling the kidney of a 17-year-old boy, Terungwa Swati, in Abuja.    The state Police Command arraigned the suspect on Thursday, September 14, 2023,  over conspiracy on organ harvesting. …

Its Director-General, Prof. Fatima Waziri-Azi made the commendation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. She was speaking in view of the donation of two four-wheel drive vehicles by the Canadian government to Nigeria. The vehicles were presented to the agency by …

“I used to transport sugar from Malawi,” said an anonymous driver, who was arrested for migrant trafficking. “In 2016, I had to wait for several days at a border crossing in Tanzania for customs checks. I was approached by a man who offered me a lot of money to transport …

Nigeria’s black market for kidneys is booming due to hypertension and renal failure, which affect 20 million Nigerians, with one in five needing urgent transplants. Since humans only need one kidney for survival, they can donate the other to a sick person. In recent years, there has been an increase …