{"id":187160,"date":"2024-12-24T00:12:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T22:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/nigeria-police-arrest-suspect-over-alleged-trafficking-of-nigerian-girls-to-libya\/"},"modified":"2024-12-24T00:12:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T22:12:45","slug":"nigeria-police-arrest-suspect-over-alleged-trafficking-of-nigerian-girls-to-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/nigeria-police-arrest-suspect-over-alleged-trafficking-of-nigerian-girls-to-libya\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Police Arrest Suspect Over Alleged Trafficking of Nigerian Girls to Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">During interrogation, the suspect claimed he did not know what he did was an offence. He said he was only assisting people to travel out of the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The police in Cross River State said they have apprehended a 35-year-old man, Victor Eyop, for the alleged trafficking of girls from Nigeria to Libya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Gyogon Grimah, the commissioner of police in Cross River, confirmed this on Monday at a news conference in Calabar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Mr Grimah explained that on 9 November, a man named Chidi Samuel, in Calabar,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412230398.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During interrogation, the suspect claimed he did not know what he did was an offence. He said he was only assisting people to travel out of the country. The police in Cross River State said they have apprehended a 35-year-old man, Victor Eyop, for the alleged trafficking of girls from Nigeria to Libya. Gyogon Grimah, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":187161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[258,256,4305,6414,7010,4711,892,257,4687,482,662,254,6550,6615],"class_list":["post-187160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleged","tag-arrest","tag-girls","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigerian","tag-police","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspect","tag-trafficking"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}