Titi Atiku Abubakar Addresses Nigerian Girls' Trafficking Issues

Titi Atiku Abubakar, the Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Network Against Child Trafficking, Abuse and Labour (NACTAL) and wife of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, expressed concern over Nigerian girls becoming a nuisance in foreign countries. This statement was made on Thursday in Abuja during the public presentation of NACTAL’s review of the 2025 Trafficking in Persons Report released by the United States Department of State.

Abubakar explained that international partners are motivated to support Nigeria's anti-human trafficking efforts because they want Nigerian girls to remain in the country instead of migrating abroad and becoming burdens on their host nations. She called for stronger collaboration among civil society organizations, stating that NACTAL cannot tackle human trafficking, abuse, and child labor alone.

Abubakar noted that NACTAL has about 286 civil society organizations working with them as frontline actors in the fight against trafficking and related offenses.