HUMAN trafficking remains an intractable problem in Nigeria and West Africa. It is believed to be a modern-day slavery occasioned by greed, poverty and poor legislation, with the victims predominantly children, girls and women.
Indeed the severity of the illegal sale and trade in persons particularly children and females in Nigeria, and west African sub-region, prompted governments to seek new strategies to combat the heinous crime.
The dangers of human trafficking are listless which includes the wide spread of HIV/AIDS. This epidermic has rendered many families in the nation hopeless.
Poverty, responsible for human trafficking – Imoke
According to her, various researches indicate that the root cause of the phenomenon of trafficking is poverty, ignorance, civil strife, and greed. She also said that one of the causes identified in Cross River
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Speaking on the occasion of a workshop on human trafficking convened by Nigeria Immigration Service, Cross River State Command and the Calabar Municipal Government, Dr. Popoola said, “Trafficking in persons, which has received global attention in recent times, is rated the second largest illegal and organised crime in the world after drugs in terms of revenue earnings.”
He noted that in Nigeria Gabon , Cameroun
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The girls, who are from four southern Nigerian states Edo, Akwa Ibom, Anambra and Delta, told the officials that Osagie arranged with their parents to take them to Libya to work as maids for US$1,272 fees each, which they would pay in instalments from their wages. "The work promise is a ruse. The truth of the matter is that they were going to pay the fees from the money they would make from prostitution in Europe ," Ockiya said.
"Our investigation shows that 40 percent of trafficked girls repatriated to Nigeria
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Despite the fact that Nigeria
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The 'anti human trafficking piracy special Investigation unit' of the FCT police command has so far rescued 105 teenagers between the ages of five to thirteen years from human traffickers, in different places in Abuja.
He said the children were trafficked from Nassarawa, Lagos, Kano, Kwara and some villages within the FCT to be used as sex slaves and child labourers within the Motor Parks, Markets and restaurants in Abuja, which contravenes section 19 of the 'Trafficking Act in Persons'.
Musa disclosed further that one of the suspects, Amina Adamu actually confessed that she kidnapped the victims to the FCT for prostitution as well as to be used as slaves, for her to get money.
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The Minister of Labour, Dr. Hassan Muhammad Lawal, said Tuesday that Nigeria has more cases of trafficking of women to Europe and Middle East than any other African country. The minister, who disclosed this at the opening ceremony of the International Cooperation Workshop against Human Trafficking in Abuja
Dr. Lawal also expressed concern that most anti-trafficking programmes focus on trafficking for sexual exploitation, saying that the campaigns are "too narrow in scope."
"ILO estimates further indicate that 80 percent of forced labour in the African region is for economic exploitation and only 8 percent for commercial sexual exploitation," he said.
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The phenomenon of human trafficking in Nigeria
While lots of people blame poverty or culture as a basis for human trafficking in Nigeria
It was part of an international police operation that led to another 19 people being arrested in Britain , the United States , Belgium , Spain , Holland , Ireland and Nigeria Netherlands , France , Italy and Spain Nigeria
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Head of National Agency for the Prohibition and Trafficking in Persons and other Related Matters (NAPTIP), Kano State
The victims who are mainly teenagers, he added, engaged in prostitution overseas.
95 women arrested for alleged human trafficking
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“These teenage girls were brought into Lagos from the South-South for trafficking to neighbouring Benin Republic
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He said taking all this into account, Ilori’s crime wasn’t at the highest end of the scale but added that "it was undoubtedly the case" that he brought twelve Mauritian nationals into the country knowing they were illegal. Judge Nolan said he accepted that there was a scheme in place and said that although there were others involved, Ilori was an actor in it and made financial gains through it. He said that these Mauritian nationals suffered because they paid out quite a bit of money and left their native country believing they had work available here.
The question bugging the minds of many remains, is human trafficking on the increase in Nigeria
It is worthy to note that despite the effort being made by the Federal Government to stem the rising tide of human trafficking, the menace has not abated.
The Nigerian police intercepted a truck in the country's south carrying the potential child laborers to Cameroon and Gabon
"We have secured 12 convictions; we have not lost any case since this thing started," said Oraukwe. "We cannot let this matter go down like that, especially when it is not just 