The General Manager of LASWA, Oluwadamilola Emmanuel, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.
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The police charged Iornongo with one count of unnatural offence.
The Benin Zonal Command of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons says it has arrested no fewer than 74 suspected human traffickers between July 2019 until date.
Ijeoma Uduak, Zonal Commander of the agency, comprising Edo, Delta and Bayelsa States, disclosed this on Wednesday in Benin as part of activities to mark the 2020 World Human Trafficking Day.
Uduak explained that the human trafficking, which is commemorated every July 30, was a day set aside to press home the attendant ills of human trafficking.
She disclosed that those arrested included 36 males and 38 females, adding that the figure was from the 89 reported cases before the zonal command.
She also disclosed that the zone secured six convictions of suspects with the latest conviction secured on Tuesday.
She explained that on Tuesday one Emmanuel Collins, a 38-year-old male from Delta State, was sentenced to two years in prison on a two count charge.
She said, however, that though the sentence was to run concurrently, the convict was also given an option of N125,000 fine on each count.
The zonal commander said the convict was arrested by the Nigerian Immigration Service at Seme border while attempting to traffic two young ladies to Dubai.
She noted that the NIS transferred the case to NAPTIP for further investigation, which led to the prosecution and eventual conviction of the convict.
Uduak further disclosed that the zone has 57 pending cases in court.
She disclosed that within the period, 122 victims were received by the zone for counselling and rehabilitation, adding that 28 of the victims have already been rehabilitated.
She said the zone, within the period under review collaborated with 89 stakeholders, carried out 47 advocacy visits, 101 sensitisation and 44 media relation exercises.
Festus, a photographer, who lives at D32 Ipetumodu Town, Osun State, is charged with criminal conspiracy, breach of trust, cheating and obtaining under false pretense.
The command’s Spokesman, DSP Sulaiman Nguroje, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Yola.
The Acting Customs Area Comptroller, Chedi Wada, told newsmen in Seme on Wednesday that the command made a total 824 interceptions with Duty Paid Value of N413.4 million.
The Abia State Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu (middle); Deputy Inspector General of Police, Celestine Okoye (right); and Secretary to the State Government, Chris Eze; and Chief of Staff to the Governor, Dr. ACB Agbazuere, during the inauguration of the Abia State Community Policing Committee and Advisory Council in Umuahia on Wednesday.
The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, gave the warning in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Justice Sybil Nwaka, while delivering judgment on the charge of sexual assault by penetration against Idoko, said the prosecution provided ingredients necessary to prove its case.
The lawyer is being assisted in the scheme by collaborators said to be from Mexico and the United States of America.
IMN, at a press briefing addressed by Abdullahi Musa, a member of the group, in Abuja, said the demand was coming at the time Justice Gideon Kurada of the Kaduna State High Court would be ruling on a no-case submission filed by El-zakzaky’s Lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), on Thursday.
This was disclosed by the spokesman of the Command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement on Tuesday.
The Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Loveth Odah, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Abakaliki.
The ISWAP Chief Judge and his council also pronounced death sentence to Ba’a Masta, an Islamic Scholar who preached in the Tumbus, and 14 others
This was disclosed by the spokesman of the Command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement on Monday.
Hajiya Mariam Kolo, Director-General of the agency, made this known during a visit to the COVID-19 Isolation Centre, where the children are receiving medical attention in Minna on Monday.
The police charged Richard Ankwe, 22, a security guard, and Frank Obi, 24, an unemployed who lives at 7, Elenla Street, Sango Otta, Ogun State, with conspiracy, robbery and unlawful possession of gun.
The Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Catherine Anene, made this disclosure in a statement in Makurdi.
The News Agency of Nigeria recalled that the suspect, a middle-aged man (names withheld), was apprehended recently for allegedly raping a five-year old girl in Ungwar Hardo community of Bauchi metropolis.
The Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Abuja.