Eight hundred and eighty-three cases of gender-based violence, with 22 convictions, were recorded between January and December 2025 in Sokoto.
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IOM officials of the organisation made the call during a question-and-answer session at an ongoing three-day training programme for journalists in Lagos on Tuesday.
Ms Idris-Kuta warned that traffickers were increasingly exploiting poor and displaced families with deceptive promises.
The assembly called for urgent government intervention to rescue and reunite the children with their families.
Mr Ekwere said that out of the 68 victims rescued, 51 were females and 17 were males.
Mr Turajo explained that a state-owned shelter would give NAPTIP a secure space for victims’ recovery.
NAPTIP has warned that human trafficking is a significant and direct threat to national security and public safety by fuelling organised crime.
Operatives of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons rescued no fewer than 26 trafficked children at an orphanage home in Benue.
Stakeholders involved in labour recruitment have emphasised the need for institutional collaboration to strengthen labour migration governance in Nigeria.
The Protection Against the Abduction and Missing of Our Children has called for urgent action by security agencies to locate 600 trafficked children from Kano.
