By Abimbola Ogunnaike No fewer than 2,743 trafficked victims were rescued last year by National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) The Director General of NAPTIP, Fatima Waziri- Azi disclosed this during a press conference in Abuja. “In 2022, NAPTIP received 1,440 reported cases of trafficking in persons: 412 external trafficking cases (28.6%) and 1,028 internal trafficking cases (71.4%). 2,743 victims were rescued in collaboration with other sister law enforcement agencies: male children, 233 (8.5%); female children, 688 (25.1%); male adults, 363 (13.2%); and female adults, 1,459 (53.2%),” Waziri-Azi said “Victims of inward trafficking were 45, that…
Author: Olamide Obayemi
It was a homecoming of sort for the All Progressives Congress Presidential Candidate, Asíwájú Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday, 21 February, 2023, at the party’s campaign grand finale rally in Lagos. President Muhammadu Buhari who was physically present at the rally lifted up Asíwájú Tinubu’s hand, again proclaiming him the next president of the country God willing. The rally was attended by an unprecedented crowd who had besieged the Teslim Balogun Stadium Surulere venue of the rally from as early as 8 am, while another large number lined the streets from the Presidential wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja where…
The nationwide presidential campaign rallies of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Tuesday, 21 February, 2023, peaked in Lagos State – the political base of the ruling party’s presidential standard bearer, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The metropolis witnessed what appeared to be its largest political parade; elegantly dressed residents and party supporters trooped into streets with various shades of campaign banners, dancing and chanting APC slogans. They walked to the rally ground – Teslim Balogun Stadium in Surulere – to wait for the presidential candidate and members of the campaign council. Tinubu, who flew into Lagos from Abuja, was received…
United Kingdom Government has said it attached great importance to Nigeria’s elections, insisting that the run up to the elections is closely monitored. It also promised to continue to work closely with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the civil liberty organisations to ensure that the forthcoming election are peaceful and credible, and call for proactive intervention to calm any tensions and prevent violence in the periods before, during and after the elections The UK’s Minister of State for Development & Africa, The Right Hon Andrew Mitchell in a statement he issued on Tuesday ahead of Nigeria’s 2023 General…
The Nigerian Government and its Canadian counterpart on Tuesday, 21 February, 2023 vowed to scale up efforts at stemming the tide of trafficking in persons and migrants smuggling. The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persona (NAPTIP) said both countries through the technical partner; Ark Group, will promote projects to consolidate on the agency’s past achievements, with intended projects being the re-designing and re-development of the NAPTIP iReporter mobile App; community-based sensitization campaigns; Capacity building for NAPTIP officials and deployment of a NAPTIP Learning Hub The Director General, NAPTIP, Fatima Waziri-Azi, said the project will support the ongoing…
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) is deploying 102,000 personnel nationwide during the forthcoming general elections. The Commandant General of the Corps, Dr Ahmed Audi, said this is in order to create a secured environment for the successful conduct of the 2023 general elections. Audi while assuring Nigerians that the forthcoming elections would be seamless despite pockets of security challenges in some parts of the country, noted that the Corps has evolved a comprehensive deployment plan to enhance general security coverage nationwide and ensure that electorates are not molested or intimidated by hoodlums or party thugs before, during…
Dazed by the phenomenal success of Lagos grand rally held today (February 21), frustrated political opponents have resorted to planting fictional story of Naira-throwing by our candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. In a currently trending post, the orchestrated report purports that Asiwaju Tinubu threw wads of bank-notes to cheering crowd at Oshodi as his motorcade rode past from Lagos airport enroute Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, Lagos. It is nothing but a lie from the pit of hell. It is part of an ongoing well-oiled campaign of calumny in a compromised section of the media to project Asiwaju in bad lights at…
The Canada Coalition of Support Groups and the All-Progressives Congress (APC) Canada was delighted with the success of the campaign and town hall engagement with the Nigerian community in Canada for APC’s Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu; and his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima. The event was themed: Renewed Hope for A New Nigeria. It had Speaker Dr. Abiola Oshodi as the keynote speaker. The event happened on January 27th, 2023, at White Oaks Conference Resort & Spa, Niagara, Ontario, Canada. APC Canada and the Canada Coalition of support groups put the event together. Other speakers that joined in…
By Yushau A. Shuaib It has taken me more than six months to finally write this article on Peter Obi, a former Governor of Anambra State and the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the oncoming 2023 general elections, for some personal reasons. I have written the profiles of virtually all the major presidential candidates and strangely I was surprised that despite having had a few memorable encounters with Peter Obi, I had only merely mentioned his name in passing as a bridge-builder across the Niger in an article I once wrote in June 2017, which is titled: “Between Nigerian…