Kidnapping, theft and trading in northern children, by Abu Shekara Last September, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), paraded on television, eight children who were seized from Kano and other Northern states by abductors and trafficked to the South–South and South–East through an interstate child trafficking syndicate. In the incident, a member of the syndicate admitted to selling 21 children to one Nkechi Odlyne, who allegedly sold seven of them to one Christopher Ogugua Nwoye, proprietor of Happy Home Orphanage in Asaba, at N450,000 each. NAPTIP...