PORT HARCOURT, 17 January, 2020 / 2:35 AM (ACI Africa).-

The brave fight mounted by religious sisters against human traffickers in Nigeria has been a key highlight of the ongoing conference that has brought together religious men and women in the west African country.

There have been increasing cases of human trafficking and sexual slavery in Nigeria amid reported public outcry that government interventions are not yielding much. Recent reports indicate that, of the over 20,000 Nigerian women who went to Italy in the last three years, 80 percent of them ended up as victims of human trafficking. Read more