A chilling confession by a suspected child trafficker has left residents and families in Oyo State horrified after a woman, Adejoke Popoola, allegedly admitted to selling four of her own biological children before graduating to the abduction and sale of other people’s children. Popoola, who was paraded alongside other suspected members of a child-stealing and…
The Oyo State Police Command has uncovered a suspected interstate child-stealing and human trafficking syndicate, rescuing 17 children and arresting seven suspects linked to the alleged criminal network. The Police also confirmed that six children died while in the custody of members of the syndicate, while investigators uncovered allegations that the remains of children who…
Three workers in Cross River State have allegedly attempted to sell their employer’s two-year-old child as revenge after claiming they were owed months of unpaid salaries, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has disclosed. Global Mirror News gathered that the disturbing incident occurred in Ogberia Ochoro Community, Ogoja Local Government…
Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have uncovered an alleged baby factory in the Mowe area of the state, rescuing two pregnant women and four children while arresting six suspects linked to the facility. The operation, according to the command, was conducted at about 8:00 a.m. on Monday, August 24, 2026, at Toluwalase Street,…
Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Lagos State Command, have dismantled an illegal baby trafficking operation in the Badagry axis of the State, rescuing vulnerable women and children while arresting key suspects. The covert operation, carried out late Wednesday into the early hours of Thursday, targeted a residential property in Okuju,…
The Ogun State Police Command has uncovered and dismantled a well-organised child trafficking and illegal surrogacy syndicate operating under the cover of an orphanage in the Agbara axis of the state, rescuing seven minors in the process. The operation was carried out by operatives of the Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID)…
In a dramatic raid along Ise-Ekiti Road, Ekiti State Police have dismantled a clandestine baby factory, rescuing six children and arresting five individuals allegedly running the illegal operation. The operation targeted 43-year-old Oluwadare Onyechi and her four accomplices—Onuoha Gloria (28), Victoria Linus (25), Ihegbogu Mercy (21), and a heavily pregnant Emmanuel Esther (23)—after authorities received…
A four-year-old girl, Jesinta Sunday, who was allegedly sold for ₦3.7 million by a child trafficking syndicate, has been rescued by the Ondo State Police Command in Delta State. The child was declared missing on February 3, 2025, when her father, Sunday Kingsley, reported at the Alagbaka Police Division in Akure that Jesinta had disappeared…
