Tag Archives: TRAFFICKING

A prominent Nigerian senator who was found guilty in March of trafficking a man to Britain to harvest one of his kidneys has been sentenced to nine years and eight months in prison by the London’s Old Bailey court, a BBC.com report has said. His wife, Beatrice Ekweremadu was jailed …

A Nigerian trader who trafficked two Nigerian women to Ghana and compelled them to engage in prostitution has been sentenced to six years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court. Favour Chikadia, charged with two counts of human trafficking, pleaded not guilty. The court, however, found Chikadia guilty at the end …

A 35 year old woman has been arrested for alleged child trafficking at Biriwa in the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central Region. Information gathered by Kasapa News Yaw Boagyan indicates that the suspect believed to be a sex worker who lives in Accra went to Bankyea in the Secondi Takoradi …

A popular Nigerian politician; Ike Ekweremadu, has been convicted together with his wife and a doctor for engaging in organ trafficking. The 60-year-old former deputy president of the Nigerian senate, his wife; 56, and the said doctor; Dr. Obinna Obeta; 51, are said to have conspired to facilitate the travel …

Mazen Farakh, a Ukrainian national who has been on the wanted list of the police for alleged fake currency trafficking, has been arrested. The suspect, who is alleged to have moved a total of $65 million in fake currency out of Ghana to various destinations was picked up by the …

Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court in Lagos has convicted and sentenced a former professional footballer, Okafor Emmanuel Junior to five years’ imprisonment for cocaine trafficking.   The judgement was handed down after Emmanuel pleaded guilty to the charge of trafficking in the banned substance made against him by the …

A 40-year-old Ghanaian man, Joshua Opoku has been jailed in Dubai for trafficking a narcotic substance believed to be cannabis also known as weed. Mr. Opoku was said to have been arrested at an airport in Dubai after the Gulf country’s officials found the substance on him. According to the …

The Oti Regional Police Command, the Department of Social Welfare (DSW) of Krachie East and Biakoye Districts, with support from International Justice Mission (IJM), have rescued ten children recruited into fishing on the Volta Lake. In two different operations launched on 5th and 7th October 2022 respectively brought nine and …

Erstwhile Nigerian footballer, Okafor Emmanuel Junior, has been arrested at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos for alleged cocaine trafficking upon arrival from Brazil. The Guardian Nigeria reported that the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) arrested Okafor who arrived in Lagos with 1.40kg of crack cocaine concealed in his …

The 20-year-old Nigerian sex trafficking victim who became stranded in Koforidua having been thrown out from a brothel for getting pregnant has been evacuated to Accra for repatriation to Nigeria after the Starr News investigation. Somtooma (not her real name) was rescued from the streets of Koforidua by Ibrahim Amevor, …