Solomon's Column

  The Public and Private Partnership trend adopted by state actors at both the State and Federal levels have sadly attracted investment in non-productive sectors: dubious estate developers, land grabbers, betting companies, hotels, petrol stations, and religious groupings with government-friendly posture and the productive sector: plastic soft drinks, sachet alcoholic stimulants, and enhancers. The policy is yet to attract internal and external investment to the productive sector,-the creation of employment and influencing economic activities upwardly. Transfer Money with Wise In a number of states the private sector, embarrassingly weak, while in others it is dominated by the controllers of the exploitative tendencies. Most of these states have already achieved the status of dumping ground for HIV/AIDS drugs including the ones that have been outlawed by the World Health Organization. The number of casualties remains unreported.  Indeed, prostitution, sodomy, and homosexuality among ot

  In Nigeria today, girls and women are trafficked on a daily basis, under different guises as domestic, service and factory workers. Trafficking is on, both locally and internationally. Unreported cases abound across major cities in Nigeria while victims are at the mercy of the criminals. Unresistable job advertisements are made to lure poverty stricken and jobless Nigerians into the world of perpetual servitude and hardship. Assurances are given to prospective victims on the financial assistance that would be rendered to procure passports, visas, travel tickets and other documents. An agreement is made, but sadly, it eventually turns out to be an agreement into ‘’slavery’’. The job advertisements now turn out to be for prostitution, forced labor, sexual assaults and drug peddling. Sadly, the law enforcement agents are doing little or nothing to eradicate the unabating crime. Traffickers lure disabled persons, children and old women from the villages to major cities to beg for alms, t