{"id":61539,"date":"2025-02-19T11:16:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T11:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61539"},"modified":"2025-02-19T11:16:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T11:16:58","slug":"naptip-intercepts-13-trafficking-victims-at-abuja-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/19\/naptip-intercepts-13-trafficking-victims-at-abuja-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"NAPTIP Intercepts 13 Trafficking Victims at Abuja Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Operatives of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), have intercepted 13 Nigerian women at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, preventing their trafficking to Iraq for forced labor and sexual exploitation.<\/p>\n<p>NAPTIP spokesperson Vincent Adekoye revealed that the victims, aged 19 to 39, were recruited by unregistered labor agents linked to a criminal network operating between Nigeria and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>The interception followed a tip-off from concerned partners who noticed suspicious movements at the airport.<\/p>\n<p>NAPTIP Director-General, Hajia Binta Adamu-Bello, decried the growing deception by traffickers, warning that victims often lose all legal rights abroad.<\/p>\n<p>She urged parents to be vigilant against fraudulent job offers.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, NAPTIP sealed a popular hotel in Kwali, Abuja, where 11 underage girls were allegedly being exploited. The hotel owner was arrested while other staff fled.<\/p>\n<p>The agency vowed to intensify its crackdown on human traffickers and illegal labor recruiters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Operatives of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), have intercepted 13 Nigerian women at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, preventing their trafficking to Iraq for forced labor and sexual exploitation. NAPTIP spokesperson Vincent Adekoye revealed that the victims, aged 19 to 39, were recruited by unregistered labor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-61539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61541,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61539\/revisions\/61541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}