Online scams driving human trafficking – Remi Tinubu

Nigeria’s First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, has urged Nigerians to beryllium much alert to online scams that are progressively being utilized arsenic tools for quality trafficking.

Speaking successful a connection marking the 2026 World Day Against Trafficking successful Persons, observed annually connected July 30, she noted that quality trafficking has evolved beyond accepted forms and present includes online deception, forced transgression activities, and organised transnational crime.

Referencing this year’s theme, “Trapped Behind the Scam,” Tinubu explained that galore young Nigerians, including graduates, are being lured overseas done fake employment and concern opportunities.

Once recruited, victims often find themselves trapped successful exploitative conditions and compelled to enactment successful transgression operations.

She called connected citizens, communities, and institutions to stay vigilant and study suspicious activities, stressing the request to support susceptible individuals from traffickers’ progressively blase methods.

“Let america stay vigilant, support the vulnerable, and guarantee that nary 1 falls unfortunate to exploitation,” she said, adding that co...