{"id":211474,"date":"2025-10-27T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-alleged-trafficking-naptip-rescues-26-children-arrests-orphanage-owner\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T13:00:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T11:00:05","slug":"nigeria-alleged-trafficking-naptip-rescues-26-children-arrests-orphanage-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-alleged-trafficking-naptip-rescues-26-children-arrests-orphanage-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Alleged Trafficking &#8211; Naptip Rescues 26 Children, Arrests Orphanage Owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Operatives of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) rescued no fewer than 26 trafficked children at an orphanage home in Benue State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">This is contained in a statement by NAPTIP Press Officer in Abuja on Sunday, Mr Vincent Adekoye.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">One of the suspects, a 60-year-old man (name withheld), is the founder of an internationally recognised Civil Society Organisation, National Council of Child&#8217;s Right Advocates of Nigeria (NACRAN), based in Benue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510270184.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operatives of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) rescued no fewer than 26 trafficked children at an orphanage home in Benue State. This is contained in a statement by NAPTIP Press Officer in Abuja on Sunday, Mr Vincent Adekoye. One of the suspects, a 60-year-old man (name withheld), is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":211475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,4305,7845,7371,18609,257,4687,393,14786,12472,7300,254,6615],"class_list":["post-211474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleged","tag-arrests","tag-children","tag-naptip","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-orphanage","tag-owner","tag-rescues","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trafficking"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/211474","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}