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India is Nigeria's leading investor, with a investment base of about $20 billion. [11] India is the fifth largest investor in Africa with cumulative investment of USD 70.7 billion. [12] India is also the third largest trading partner of Africa after China and USA. India accounts for 6.4% of total African trade. [13]
Josephine Effah-Chukwuma (born 29 September 1966 [1]) is a Nigerian development specialist and advocate against domestic violence who founded Sophia's Place, the first battered women's shelter in Nigeria [2] She is the founder and executive director of Project Alert [3] [4] established in January, 1999 which provides medical assistance to injured female victims through public fund sourcing and ...
A-TIPSOM is a program designed to reduce trafficking in persons (TIP) and smuggling of migrants (SOM) at the national and regional level with specific emphasis on women and children in Nigeria. A-TIPSOM is anchored by FIIAPP. [1] [2] [3]
Government grants and donations are the primary source of income of the cow shelters in India. Since 2014, when BJP government came into power in India, India has spent ₹ 5.8 billion (US$67 million) on cow shelters in two years between 2014 and 2016. [1] A goshala at Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. A Goshala at Mayapur ISKCON Temple compound, West Bengal
Nigeria is a source, transit, and destination country for women and children subjected to trafficking in persons including forced labour and forced prostitution. [1] The U.S. State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons placed the country in "Tier 2 Watchlist" in 2017. [ 2 ]
Nigeria has around 800,000 Indian-Nigerians [4] with Indians being the largest racial minority in the country. Most of the Indian community in Nigeria is Hindu. India and Nigeria were both part of the British Empire. Indians were brought to Africa by the British to build the rail network in Africa.
NAPTIP is mandated to enforce the Trafficking in Persons(Prohibition) Enforcement and Administration Act (TIPPEA) in Nigeria. [10] In 2015, the Agency was also given the responsibility of implementing the Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAAP) Act which was then passed into law by the National Assembly.
The first inauguration of Muhammadu Buhari as the 15th president of Nigeria, and 4th president in the fourth Nigerian Republic took place on Friday, 29 May 2015, marking the start of the first four-year term of Muhammadu Buhari as president and Yemi Osinbajo as vice president. It was the 7th presidential inauguration in Nigeria, and 5th in the ...