Tag: HUMAN TRAFFICKING
How Benin girls are lured into prostitution in Europe
In Benin City, Nigeria's capital of illegal migration, no one says the word "prostitution". The word on the street for the young girls who...
Nigerian couple convicted for enslaving compatriot in UK
A London-based Nigerian couple were on Friday convicted by a Southwark Crown Court in London for trafficking a “slave nanny” into the United Kingdom...
Nigerian couple in court for trafficking, dehumanising babysitter in UK
A couple have been accused of trafficking a Nigerian woman to the UK before making her work 18-hour shifts and beating her when she...
UNICEF confirms rape, torture of Nigerian women and children in Libya
Nigerian Women and children and others making the dangerous journey to Europe to flee poverty and conflicts in Africa are being beaten, raped and...
I was sold into slavery, burnt with iron, forced to drink...
Gift Peters, one of the 171 Nigerians who voluntarily returned home from Libya on Tuesday has recounted how she was sold into slavery in...
10 arrested in Spain over smuggling of Nigerians for prostitution
Police in Spain say they have arrested 10 people allegedly involved in human trafficking across the Strait of Gibraltar, including bringing Nigerian women to...
4 arrested in Italy for ‘importing’ Nigerian prostitutes
Italian police on Wednesday arrested four men accused of being the leaders of a human trafficking ring which smuggled people from Africa to Europe...
Kidnapped girl sold for N350,000 in Abia rescued in Enugu
The Enugu State Police Command said that it has burst a kidnapping and human trafficking syndicate that abducted and sold a four-year-old girl in...
Nigerians arrested in UK crackdown on illegal nail salon workers
British immigration officers have raided nearly 300 nail salons and arrested almost 100 people for suspected immigration offences as part of a drive to...
Prophet docked over abduction, sexual slavery
A Makurdi Magistrates’ Court on Thursday remanded a cleric, Elijah Ebimone, in prison for allegedly abducting three girls and turning them to sex slaves.
Ebimone,...