he National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has stated that women carry out majority of the human trafficking and adoption crimes in Nigeria. Fatima Waziri-Azi, director-general of NAPTIP, said this on Thursday, May 25, at a workshop organised for non-governmental organisations in Akwa Ibom, Anambra and Cross River states….
American rapper, Fetty Wap has been sentenced to six years in prison for his role in a large-scale drug trafficking scheme that saw narcotics shipped from the West Coast and sold in New Jersey and Long Island. The 31-year-old rapper, whose real name is Willie Junior Maxwell II, was sentenced in federal court in…
Rapper Fetty Wap has asked a judge in his federal drug trafficking case to only sentence him to the mandatory minimum years. Fetty is seeking a 5-year sentence after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute at least 500 grams of cocaine stemming from his October 2021 arrest. His lawyers told the judge that…
Deutsche Bank AG will pay $75 million to settle a proposed class-action lawsuit claiming it aided Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday night. The suit was filed by lawyers on behalf of an anonymous victim and others who accused the financier, who died by suicide in federal lockup in 2019, of…
An Ohio priest, who was arrested in 2020, was found guilty by a federal jury of sex trafficking of a minor and now faces up to life in prison. Michael J. Zacharias, 56, of Findlay, Ohio, was charged with five sex trafficking charges, including of a minor and of an adult by force, fraud,…
Actress Georgina Onuoha has reacted to reports of the sentencing of former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, his wife Beatrice and their doctor, Obinna Obeta. Concerning the sentencing, Georgina it serves them right. She wrote; ‘’And let the choir say Amen. Serves them right. Do not take advantage of anyone because…
The Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, UK, has sentenced former Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, to nine years and eight months in prison for organ trafficking. The court also sentenced his wife, Beatrice, to four years and six months jail term. The doctor helping the couple out, Dr Obinna Obeta was sentenced…
The police in Enugu state have busted a child stealing and trafficking syndicate and arrested two (2) female suspects, one Miracle Orji 24 aged and Blessing Ani aged 34. A statement released by the spokesperson of the command, DSP Daniel Ndukwe says the police arrested the suspects following a tipoff received by some persons…
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. was reportedly aware that the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was paying underage girls to be brought to his home, years before he was convicted in 2008, according to a lawsuit filing released on Wednesday. The court filing is part of an amended lawsuit filing initially brought last year by…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has declared a Port Harcourt, Rivers state based popular prophetess and founder of Christ Power Adoration Ministries, Faith Ugochi and an Instagram celebrity couple: Igho Ubiribo and Danielle Simba Allen, wanted for allegedly recruiting teenage girls into drug trafficking while they serve as the arrowheads of an international…
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Jamie Dimon will be deposed in two civil lawsuits over the bank’s relationship with the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, according to reports Tuesday. In December, the U.S. Virgin Islands’ attorney general sued JPMorgan, alleging the bank had turned a blind eye to Epstein’s sex trafficking of minors while providing…
Senator Ike Ekweremadu, his wife, his daughter, and a doctor have been convicted of organ trafficking, in the first verdict of its kind under the Modern Slavery Act in the United Kingdom. Ike Ekweremadu, 60, a former deputy president, his wife, Beatrice, 56, daughter Sonia 25, and Dr Obinna Obeta, 51, were found guilty of…
Kozhikobe police in Kerala, India has arrested a Nigerian man for alleged drug trafficking and seized 55 grams of MDMA from his possession. The Nigerian identified as Charles Ofodile was apprehended from Bengaluru, Karnataka and brought to Kozhikode on Sunday, February 5, 2023. Police said that the suspect was trafficking banned drugs to…
Social media Influencer, Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan will remain in police custody until February 27, after a Romanian court on Friday, January 20 extended their detention, Tate’s lawyers have revealed. The siblings are being investigated by Romanian authorities on allegations of human trafficking and rape. Authorities in Romania said police served search warrants at…
Justice Phoeba Ayua of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has sentenced a 35-year-old woman, Amadi Joy Ngozi, to three years imprisonment for human trafficking. The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) in a statement on Thursday, January 19, 2023, said Amadi was convicted on a two-count charge…
Andrew Tate has denied being involved in human trafficking. The controversial internet personality was arrested in December 2022 in Romania alongside his brother and two assistants. Over the weekend, Romanian authorities said they have seized nearly $4 million worth of assets belonging to Tate over the past week as he and his brother are investigated on…
Romanian authorities on Sunday, January 15, said they have seized goods and money worth 18 million lei ($3.95 million) as a part of a criminal inquiry into alleged human trafficking that led to the arrest of controversial internet personality Andrew Tate. Andrew Tate, his brother and two Romanian female suspects were detained on December 29 on…
25-year-old Sonia Ekweremadu, daughter of Senator Ike Ekweremadu has denied charges of trafficking a homeless man into the UK to harvest his kidney. Sonia who is being charged alongside her father Ike Ekweremadu, 60, her mother, Beatrice Ekweremadu, 56, and a Nigerian doctor Obinna Obeta, 50, pleaded not guilty today, January 13. Ike, Beatrice and Obeta had also…
Incendiary social media influencer Andrew Tate and his brother were busted in Romania on Thursday related to sex-trafficking allegations, according to a report. Police in tactical gear descended on a villa Andrew Tate and brother Tristan were staying at Thursday to detain the British brothers on kidnapping and rape charges, judicial sources told Romanian outlet Libertatea. Video shows…
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and Other Related Offences (NAPTIP) has reunited a 2-year-old victim of human trafficking with her 18-year-old birth mother. Speaking at the handing over ceremony of the child, NAPTIP Director-General, Mrs Fatimah Waziri-Azi, said the girl was deceptively taken from her mother at birth and…