NAPTIP Secures Landmark Convictions In Cross River Child Trafficking Case

NAPTIP officials described the case as particularly disturbing because the perpetrators exploited their positions of trust within their own community, trafficking vulnerable children including their own for personal gain. By TheInvestigator The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Cross River State Command, has secured the conviction of two men for trafficking […]

February 11, 2026

Two Convicted In Cross River For Human Trafficking And Attempted Sale Of 12-Year-Old Girl They used

They used methods including abduction, deception, and abuse of a position of vulnerability in their attempt to sell the child. By TheInvestigator  Convictions of two individuals in a human trafficking case involving the abduction and attempted sale of a minor have been secured in Cross River State. On February 2, 2026, the Federal High Court […]

January 29, 2026

Army, NAPTIP Arrest Seven Suspected Human Traffickers In Calabar

… during a coordinated raid on Glorious Amazing Grace Hospital in the Ikot Ekpo area of Calabar Municipality, where they were allegedly negotiating the sale of a day-old baby boy for ₦3 million. By TheInvestigator  The Nigerian Army has arrested seven suspected human traffickers in Calabar, Cross River State, during a joint intelligence-led operation conducted […]

January 25, 2025

Cross River Born Bishop Kenneth Duke Sentenced To 20 Years Imprisonment For Rape Of 12-Year-Old Girl

The Bishop pounced on her, covered her mouth and violently raped her on a chair despite her crying and pleading. By Vincent Adekoye A Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting at Gudu presided over by Honourable Justice Adebiyi Osolo, has sentenced a prominent Church Founder and Bishop of a popular congregation in Abuja, Bishop Kenneth […]

December 29, 2023

Quinquagenarian Marries Four-Year-Old Girl, Rights Group Kicks

“The little ‘bride’ said if she were not allowed to marry her husband, she would have no other business in the Akeddei community,” said a source. By News Agency of Nigeria, NAN A child rights advocacy group, DO Foundation, on Thursday, kicked against the December 26 marriage between a four-year-old and a 54-year-old man at […]