Three million young Nigerians subjected to sexual, other forms of slavery world wide
By TVC News Nigeria
17 November 2019 |
6:00 am
The Director-General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking In Persons, NAPTIP says an estimated three million young Nigerians had been subjected to sexual and other forms of slavery internally and in various parts of the world.
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