{"id":76011,"date":"2025-10-02T13:58:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76011"},"modified":"2025-10-02T13:58:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:58:44","slug":"nactal-hails-naptip-for-rescuing-24-trafficking-victims-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/02\/nactal-hails-naptip-for-rescuing-24-trafficking-victims-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"NACTAL Hails NAPTIP For Rescuing 24 Trafficking Victims in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Network Against Child Trafficking, Abuse and Labour (NACTAL), Nigeria has commended the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) for rescuing 24 victims of human trafficking and arresting five suspected traffickers in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement signed by its National President, Mr. Abdulganiyu Abubakar, and released in Sokoto on Thursday, NACTAL described the operation as a reflection of NAPTIP\u2019s professionalism and commitment to combating trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>Abubakar urged the agency to ensure speedy prosecution of traffickers to guarantee justice for survivors, citing a Sokoto victim, Bashariya, as an example of why timely trials are crucial.<\/p>\n<p>He reaffirmed NACTAL\u2019s commitment to working with government, civil society, and international partners to strengthen prevention, protection, and prosecution mechanisms, noting that Nigeria remains a major trafficking hub in West Africa.<\/p>\n<p>According to NAPTIP\u2019s 2023 report, over 2,000 victims were rescued nationwide, with Edo, Delta, Kano, Sokoto, and Ogun identified as high-risk trafficking corridors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith &nbsp; The Network Against Child Trafficking, Abuse and Labour (NACTAL), Nigeria has commended the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) for rescuing 24 victims of human trafficking and arresting five suspected traffickers in Abuja. In a statement signed by its National President, Mr. Abdulganiyu Abubakar, and released [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76011","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76013,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76011\/revisions\/76013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}