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Lagos is a city in Nigeria and one of the largest and fastest-growing cities in Africa. In the context of human trafficking, Lagos is a major source, transit, and destination point for trafficking victims. Traffickers may target vulnerable individuals, including children, women, and migrants, in Lagos and transport them to other parts of Nigeria or other countries for exploitation. The Nigerian government and international organizations have undertaken a range of efforts to combat trafficking in Lagos and other parts of the country, including prevention campaigns, victim support programs, and law enforcement initiatives.
Posted by Bryon Lippincott on November 22, 2022 Free the Slaves and our implementing partner, La Lumiere, successfully reintegrated 16 survivors of Commercial Sexual Exploitation back to Nigeria. The successful return of these survivors to their homes are the first repatriations as part of the Program to Address Commercial Sexual Exploitation in the Kédougou area…
Oluchi Chibuzor A comparative study titled, ‘Irregular Migration, Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery: Challenges of Reintegration of Returnees and Deportees,’ has found out that despite all the stringent and hostile immigration laws of developed countries, 93 per cent of Nigeria’s returnees and deportees still want to go on desperate journeys. This according to them…
Ugo Aliogo examines the activities of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons According to a report, Nigeria remains a source, transit and destination country in the illicit trade of human trafficking. The Global Slavery Index (2018) report, Nigeria ranks 32 out of167 of the countries with the highest number of slaves –…
•Lawan, Gbajabiamila, Opiah, ex-VCs seek reform, more funding for education sector •Obaseki links rising youth unemployment to nation’s faulty educational system Udora Orizu and Juliet Akoje in Abuja Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday warned that if Nigeria does not address the 20 million out-of-school children which constitutes about 10 per cent of her population, the…
NAFDAC arraigns businessmen over alleged importation of fake drugs Justice Hadizat Rabiu-Shagari of Federal High Court, Lagos, yesterday, convicted and sentenced two women, Osunabi Fatimoh and Olayinka Eniola, to 24 months imprisonment for human trafficking, The judge sentenced the two after they were found guilty as charged by the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking…
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted two ladies and two men wanted in connection with over 16,000 kilograms (16 tons) of illicit drugs in Lagos, Abuja and Netherlands. In Lagos, anti-narcotics officers who have been on the trail of 48-year-old Aro Aderinde for weeks arrested him on Sunday October 16,…
The wife of a former Deputy Senate President, Mrs. Beatrice Ekweremadu who alongside her husband are standing trial for allegedly plotting to traffic a Nigerian into the United Kingdom to harvest his kidney for their ailing daughter has been granted bail by the court However, her husband, Senator Ike Ekweremadu was denied bail. Beatrice Ekweremadu,…
Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, has ordered an interim forfeiture of 40 landed properties belonging to the embattled former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu. Senator Ekweremadu is currently in custody in the United Kingdom, over allegation of organ harvesting. Justice Inyang Ekwo, made the order following an ex-parte motion marked, FHC/ABJ/CS/1242/2022 filed and…
By Christopher Oji The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a couple, Godday and Ebere Samuel for alleged human trafficking. They were picked for trying to traffic a 16 years old girl from Nigeria to Burkina Faso. According to the police, the suspects were arrested following a report lodged at Atan Ota Divisional Headquarters by…
A barbaric tradition known as “Money wife” in a remote village in Cross river state called Becheve where girls as young as 10 years old are being sold into marriage has been uncovered. Editor’s note: here is another related story. A Twitter user by name Tunde Onakoya who runs a Non-Governmental Organisation running a program…
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