Officials of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Anambra State Command, in collaboration with Nigeria Immigration Service Anambra State Command, on Wednesday May 11, arrested a suspected male human trafficker and rescued the female victim. The suspect who resides in Onitsha, In conjunction with his syndicates based in Edo state and Dubai respectively, lured the victim from Edo state to Anambra state. The suspect was arrested at the immigration office while he was trying to procure …
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Actor Sylvester Madu has recounted how he borrowed money to buy a Blackberry passport phone when it was released so he could ”belong”. In a post shared on his Instagram page, Madu wrote on how time eventually places value on everything humans have. He remembered when the Blackberry passport was released and how everyone thought it was the best phone yet. According to him, many marriages and relationships were destroyed because of that particular phone. He said he went as far as …
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has explained why the passport of End SARS protest frontliner, Modupe Odele was seized while stating that it had nothing to do with the part she played in the campaign against police brutality. Modupe “Moe” Odele, a legal practitioner and member of the Feminist Coalition, had narrated how she was stopped from travelling out of the country for her birthday and her passport was seized. This led to outrage as people accused the government of …
The US passport is now as weak as the passport of Mexico, according to a new report by The Henley Passport Index, which periodically measures the world’s most travel-friendly passports. Before Covid-19 came, Air traffic had been rising steadily for decades and the average US passport-holder worldwide was enjoying visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 107 global destinations. But now faced with …
In response to China’s new security law imposed on Hong Kong which took full effect this week and is seen as a threat to the city’s freedom, the United Kingdom has announced it would offer a path to citizenship for eligible Hong Kong residents and condemned China’s new national security law, saying it constitutes “a clear violation of the autonomy of Hong Kong, and a direct threat to the freedom of its people.” …
Brazil and Barcelona legend, Ronaldinho has opened up on his ‘sixty long days’ as he remains under house arrest in Paraguay for allegedly using a fake passport to enter South American country. The 40-year-old and his brother Roberto were arrested in March after police found passports bearing their names with Paraguayan nationality despite having their Brazilian passports confiscated in 2018. They spent 32 days in prison before they were released from jail in April and then transferred to …