Tag Archives: NAPTIP

#JusticeForOchanya: Activists Decry State of Child Protection in Nigeria

Ochanya's brother, Ameh

As the first anniversary of her death draws near, women and children’s rights activists gathered in Lagos recently to push for justice for Ochanya Ogbanje, the Benue school girl who died October last year from complications arising from alleged serial rape by a lecturer and his son. The child protection workshop organised by the Centre for Children’s Health Education, Orientation …

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U.S. Commits $75m To Fighting Human Trafficking, Modern Slavery

Tayo Olanipekun U.S. has invested a total of $75m into efforts geared at combating human trafficking and modern day slavery since 2017, the Secretary of State, Michael Pompeo, has said. The country made this commitment through the congressionally-funded U.S. foreign assistance program, Program to End Modern Slavery, launched last year to reduce the prevalence of modern day slavery in specific …

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We Don’t Use Witch Doctors To Fight Human Trafficking- NAPTIP

Folake Sokoya The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has disowned the report alleging the body now engages witch doctors to boost its fight against human trafficking. Spokesman of the agency, Josiah Emereole, in a statement made available to Nationalwire, noted that the attention of his agency was drawn to media reports that the Agency hired …

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