LAGOS MAY 9TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-The Tarkwa Circuit Court in Ghana has sentenced a 32-year-old Nigerian woman, Patience Gold, to 20 years in prison for trafficking four young women, including one living with HIV from Nigeria to Ghana for forced prostitution. According to Graphic Online, a Ghanaian news outlet, on Thursday, the presiding judge, Hathia Manu, found…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRS)-Uadiale Christiana Jacob, aka Christy Evan Osagie, a wanted convicted leader of an international human trafficking network has been arrested by the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja. The socialite whose network operates across the Middle Eastern countries with an operational base in the United Arab…
LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ogun State Police command has arrested a man, Amoda Bola, 49,for allegedly impregnating his 14 years old biological daughter and forcing her into prostitution. The suspect and five others who were allegedly paying money to him to sleep with the victim were arrested on May 17. According to Ogun State Police…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Italian customs police on Monday dismantled a Nigerian organized crime syndicate that forced dozens of young women into prostitution and begging on the streets of Italy and then smuggled out millions of euros in ill-gained revenues to Nigeria, with cash hidden in suitcase handles or pasta packages. The police said raids in…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Ambassador to Burkina Faso, Ramatu Ahmed, says no fewer than 10,000 Nigerian girls are forced into prostitution in Burkina Faso. Ahmed disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Ouagadougou on Monday She said the victims were mainly underage girls kept in appalling conditions in Ouagadougou…
LAGOS AUGUST 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ghana Immigration Service has arrested a Nigerian lady identified as Chioma Sabina Abaraonye, for trafficking teenage girls into the country and forcing them into prostitution. The arrested Nigerian lady joined the human trafficking business 5 years ago and she reportedly lured young girls with promises of giving them jobs as sales girls…
LAGOS JUNE29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian cult has been accused of promoting a life of prostitution and drugs in Italy’s dark and narrow alleys; from the north in Turin to the south in Palermo. The Washington Post writes that “Italian investigators say the Nigerian syndicate meets the definition of a mafia, rather than a criminal gang, because…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A South African church has called for the decriminalization of sex work, insisting that Jesus Christ was the first to do so. Reverend Alan Storey of the Central Methodist Mission‚ Cape Town, together with members of the Asijiki Coalition for the Decriminalisation of Sex Work‚ last Thursday hoisted a banner over the…