Nigeria’s Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has said Abuja’s decision to close land borders has resulted in a 70% reduction in the amount of petrol used...
The Nigerian government has sealed parts its western border with neighbouring Benin in order to prevent widespread rice smuggling that is thwarting the country’s efforts to...
A new report published by Human Rights Watch (HRW) had revealed that the Nigerian government is failing survivors of human trafficking, modern slavery and sexual exploitation....
Interpol has brought together a panel of global experts from around 70 countries for a conference on the threat posed international gangs involved in human trafficking...
The UN has demanded that Nigeria improve its efforts to crack down on human trafficking, noting that the West African nation is failing to implement existing...
Ministers from Nigeria, Niger and Benin have agreed to meet to discuss the growing problem of rice smuggling in the region. Speaking with reporters on the...
Border force officials in Nigeria have announced plans to deploy drones in a bid to combat the smuggling of rice and other contraband items across the...
Law enforcement agencies in Nigeria have disrupted a child sex trafficking plot that involved the smuggling of minors to Russia ahead of the World Cup. Five...
The Nigerian government has banned the production and importation of codeine-based cough syrup after a BBC investigation revealed that teenagers in the country were abusing the...
Police in the Nigerian city of Lagos have recovered more than 200 illegally-held firearms, a local law enforcement official has revealed. Speaking during a press conference...
Earlier this month, Nigeria’s National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) was forced to deny allegations it had hired witch doctors to help...
Twelve members of an international sex trafficking gang that pulled out its victims’ fingernails and made them eat raw chicken hearts during harrowing voodoo rituals have...
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