He said the development was part of the on-going effort by the new management to re-position the agency and for better service delivery.
Browsing: National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking In Persons
Obaseki lamented that the state was fast becoming synonymous with human trafficking and charged the task force to urgently redeem the state’s image as Edo State people do not want to be associated with the stigma any more
The official inauguration of the NAPTIP new office in Osogbo by the Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, was witnessed by high caliber personalities, traditional rulers and heads of security agencies in the state.
Okah-Donli disclosed this on Wednesday in Osogbo, at the inauguration of the North-West Zonal Command Office of the agency.
Their operations entail helping to profile passengers, especially those of Nigerian origin, with a view to identifying Potential Victims of Trafficking, their traffickers and collaborators.
This was the outcome of the high powered strategic meetings held in Italy between a delegation from NAPTIP, led by the Director-General, Julie Okah-Donli, and officials of various Law Enforcement Agencies of Italy.
Josiah Emerole, the NAPTIP Head, Press and Public Relations, said in a press statement on Sunday in Abuja that the approval was given during high level meetings with officials of the Home Office in London.
The Nigerians were sent back home barely 48 hours after 23 Nigerians were deported from Spain and five days after another batch of 34 were jointly deported by the governments of Switzerland, Germany, Iceland, Austria, Belgium and Hungary
They were deported barely five days after 34 Nigerians were sent home from six European countries for committing immigration-related offences
Operatives of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons in 2010 arrested Oshi alongside her accomplice, 75-year-old Peter Idowu
Omorogie, a Nurse by profession and an indigene of Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State, was arrested by the operatives of the Agency at 5am at her residenc
Operatives of the Agency have been on Ugbo’s trail for several weeks, following regular mention of his name in a number of human trafficking
The upper chamber also called on the Federal Government to strengthen the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and the Nigerian Immigration Service to take measures to prevent trafficking in persons
Okah-Donli, who addressed journalists at NAPTIP, Lagos Zonal Command, Ikeja
These figures were released in Abuja on Wednesday by the Director-General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, Julie Okah-Donli, at the opening of an Expanded Management meeting of the Agency
The NAPTIP DG, who expressed worry over the plights of Nigerian-Europe bound migrants, identified sustained cooperation, capacity building, surveillance and well as intelligence sharing as some of the basic ingredients for combating the menace of human trafficking that is presently a global concern
Twenty-one of the victims were intercepted in Kano by operatives of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, while 22 others were intercepted by the Nigeria Immigration Service in Katsina State and handed over to the Agency for investigation and reunion with their families
Okah-Donli spoke while touring the Abuja Shelter of the Agency as part of her familiarisation visit to NAPTIP facilities in Abuja
The convict, who claims to be a Clergyman with a Doctorate degree in Christian Counselling from the United Faith Ministry in Miami, Florida, USA, was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on each of the five counts charge preferred against him
The deportees, who are all male, were brought back in a chartered aircraft with registration number EL-SMU/3737