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Lagos is a city in Nigeria and one of the largest and fastest-growing cities in Africa. In the context of human trafficking, Lagos is a major source, transit, and destination point for trafficking victims. Traffickers may target vulnerable individuals, including children, women, and migrants, in Lagos and transport them to other parts of Nigeria or other countries for exploitation. The Nigerian government and international organizations have undertaken a range of efforts to combat trafficking in Lagos and other parts of the country, including prevention campaigns, victim support programs, and law enforcement initiatives.
A non-governmental organisation, Live Abundantly, on Monday, embarked on a roadshow or walk in Lagos to mark this year’s World Day Against Human Trafficking. The NGO embarked on the roadshow in collaboration with the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking and the International Organisation for Migration. During the awareness campaign monitored by our correspondent,…
By Funke Busari Over time, most young Nigerians with promising careers have fallen victims of human traffickers. Many a time, it has taken the intervention of government agencies to rescue survivors from the jaws of death and life of regret. But many have not been so fortunate. Not a few have died from every form…
Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, has appealed to the British government for leniency for the jailed former deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice. Ekweremadu and his wife, alongside a medical doctor, Obinna Obeta, were in May jailed by the United Kingdom (UK) over an organ trafficking plot. The UK court…
The organ trade is a complex crime that is fuelled by the high demand for organ transplants and rising global inequalities. The root causes of the trade need to be addressed and stronger responses are needed to tackle the more organised and exploitative forms of the trade, writes Frederike Ambagtsheer for The Conversation. Organ trade…
Every now and then the trade in human organs makes national, even international, news. In March 2023, a Nigerian politician, his wife and a medical middleman were found guilty of an organ-trafficking plot after they brought a man to the UK from Lagos to sell his kidney. Several months later in Kenya, following the arrest…
Article information Author, Mark Lobel, Kate West and Melanie Stewart-Smith Role, File on 4 27 June 2023 Di decision of one man wey dey experience tough time to waka go one police station near Heathrow Airport, go lead to UK first prosecution of human trafficking for organ removal. Di Metropolitan Police team don give di…
How torture, inaction underpin UAE’s thriving sex trafficking industry African women trafficked into the UAE are forced into debt and subjected to threats and violence, as they are kept in sexual slavery. The case of Christy Gold, who has been charged with sex trafficking in Nigeria, highlights the torment endured by these women in the…
ABUJA – International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said human trafficking and kidnapping are not only crimes but also constitute gross violations of human rights. Laurent De Boeck, Chief of Mission, IOM Nigeria, stated this on Friday in Abuja at the commemoration of the International Day for the Right to the Truth organised by IOM…
A senior wealthy Nigerian politician, his wife and a medical “middleman” have been found guilty of an organ-trafficking plot, after they brought a 21-year-old man to the UK from Lagos. Senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice, 56, and Dr Obinna Obeta, 50, were convicted of conspiring to exploit the man for his kidney, in…
A Lagos-based Nigerian trader allegedly trafficked to the United Kingdom by former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, told a British court he pleaded with police officers in the UK for his life to be saved. In a videotaped interview, the alleged victim also told police he was treated like a ‘slave’ at the house in…
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