Nigeria is a source,transit,and destination country for women and children subjected to trafficking in persons including forced labour and forced prostitution. The U.S. State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons placed the country in "Tier 2 Watchlist" in 2017. Trafficked people,particularly women and children,are recruited from within and outside the country's borders –for involuntary domestic servitude,sexual exploitation,street hawking,domestic servitude,mining,begging etc. Some are taken from Nigeria to other West and Central African countries,primarily Gabon,Cameroon,Ghana,Chad,Benin,Togo,Niger,Burkina Faso,and the Gambia,for the same purposes. Children from other West African states like Benin,Togo,and Ghana –where Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) rules allow for easy entry –are also forced to work in Nigeria,and some are subjected to hazardous jobs in Nigeria's granite mines. Europe,especially Italy and Russia,the Middle East and North Africa,are prime destinations for forced prostitution.Nigerians accounted for 21% of the 181,000 migrants that arrived in Italy through the Mediterranean in 2016 and about 21,000 Nigerian women and girls have been trafficked to Italy since 2015.
Basheer Lado Garba Mohammed is a Nigerian businessman who was elected Senator for the Kano Central constituency of Kano State,Nigeria in the April 2011 national elections,running on the People's Democratic Party (PDP) platform.
Aisha Halilu Buhari;born 17 February 1971) is a Nigerian beauty therapist who served as the first lady of Nigeria from 2015 to 2023,as the wife of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Vincent I. Maduka,OFR is a Nigerian engineer,broadcaster and the first director general of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA). He holds the Nigerian national honour of the Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,OFR (2003). He was between 2008 and 2016 a senior fellow at the Pan-Atlantic University,Lagos,Nigeria.
Joseph Chidiebere Osuigwe is a Nigerian human trafficking expert,educator,and social entrepreneur. He is the executive director of Devatop Centre for Africa Development,a nonprofit organization with focus on combating human trafficking,gender-based violence,providing educational supports to vulnerable children and empowering women and youth.
Devatop Centre for Africa Development is a youth-led nonprofit organization with aimed towards fighting and combating human trafficking,gender-based violence,child abuse,providing educational materials and academical support to vulnerable children,and empowering women and youth. The organization has been in the forefront of combating human trafficking and executing educational projects in Nigeria. It is registered with the Cooperate Affairs Commission Nigeria and since its establishment it has impacted over a million people through training,sensitization,assistance,donations and media.
Women Trafficking and Child Labour Eradication Foundation (WOTCLEF) is an anti-human trafficking organization that attempts to stop human trafficking and child labour in Nigeria. WOTCLEF's areas of focus are:human trafficking,child labour,abuse of the rights of women and children and HIV/AIDS. The organization played a role in establishing the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking In Persons (NAPTIP) and the Network of Civil Society Organization Against Child Trafficking,Abuse and Labour (NACTAL).
Amina Titilayo Atiku-Abubakar is a Nigerian advocate of women and child rights and the wife of former vice president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,Atiku Abubakar. She is the founder of Women Trafficking and Child Labour Eradication Foundation (WOTCLEF) and the initiator of the private bill that led to the establishment of National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) is a law enforcement agency of the Federal Government of Nigeria,founded on the 14th of July,2003 by the Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Enforcement and Administration Act of 2003 in order to combat human trafficking and other similar human rights violations.
Julie Okah-Donli is a Nigerian lawyer,chartered secretary and administrator,who served as the Director General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP),an agency established by the Federal Government of Nigeria in 2003 to tackle human trafficking and other related matters. She is the founder of the Julie Donli Kidney Foundation,an NGO that supports people with kidney disease and also mother of the musician,Lady Donli.
Goddy Jedy Agba OFR,born Godwin,20 August 1958,is a Nigerian bureaucrat,politician,farmer,author and former Group general manager,Crude Oil Marketing Division,Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC). As of July 2019,he was nominated as a minister of the federal republic of Nigeria from Cross River by the government of President Muhammadu Buhari. In 1983,he had his first Degree in International Studies from Ahmadu Bello University,Zaria. He obtained his master's degree in International Law and Diplomacy from the University of Lagos,Akoka in 1989. Goddy joined Federal Civil Service in 1984 and retired at NNPC in 2014 to join the Nigerian politics.
Joana Maduka is a Nigerian engineer. She became the first female fellow of the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) in 1974. She is also a fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers,the Nigerian Society of Engineers and the Nigerian Academy of Engineering. She was made an honorary fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Science Technology in 1987 and Yaba College of Technology in 1988. She was honoured as a Member of the Order of the Federal Republic in 2008. She was the first female COREN President.
Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim,is a Nigerian politician and businesswoman. She was the director-general of National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons,NAPTIP from 1 December 2020 till 27 May 2021,when the Nigerian President,Muhammadu Buhari announced a swap and she was redeployed as the Honourable Federal Commissioner of the National Commission for Refugees,Migrants,and Internally Displaced Persons.
The 2015 Cross River State gubernatorial election was the 9th gubernatorial election of Cross River State. Held on April 11,2015,the People's Democratic Party nominee Benedict Ayade won the election,defeating Odey Ochicha of the All Progressives Congress.
Network Against Trafficking,Abuse and Labour (NACTAL) is an umbrella organisation of Nigerian non-governmental organizations engaged in advocacy and campaign for children's rights,anti-human trafficking,human rights abuse and child labour with some 220 member organizations in the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria and the Federal Capital Territory.
Action Against Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants in Nigeria is an 11th European Development Fund project which is implemented in Nigeria by the International and Ibero-American Foundation for Administration and Public Policies (FIIAPP).
Idia Renaissance is a non governmental civil society organization based in Edo State,Nigeria. The organization organize activities around human trafficking,including reception of victims of human trafficking. Idia Renaissance was founded by Mrs. Eki Igbinedion,wife of Chief Lucky Igbinedion,a former governor of Edo State. In 2021,Idia Renaissance partnered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to create awareness on human trafficking and sexual exploitation of women girls.
Fatima Waziri-Azi is a Nigerian lawyer and the Director General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) of Nigeria. Before her appointment at NAPTIP she was an advisor on the rule of law to the President of Nigeria,Muhammadu Buhari. She is a former Head of Department of Public Law at the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and she is a woman rights advocate and a campaigner against domestic and sexual based violence.
The Nigeria Sexual Offender and Service Provider Database (NSOD) is a database that consists of the sexual offender register and the service provider register. It is a document of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons by the Federal Government of Nigeria,published in September 2019 to document cases of sexual violence and run background checks on sexual offenders in the 36 states of Nigeria.
The 2015 Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Enforcement and Administration Act is an act which was initially passed in 2003 and amended in 2005 and 2015 by the Federal Government of Nigeria. The act was established to provide welfare and support for trafficked persons while also announcing penalties for offenses related to human trafficking in Nigeria. The act led to the establishment of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).
