Lagos Police Rescue 12 Girls, Arrest Woman in Separate Case Involving Attempt to Move Girls to Ivory Coast
Lagos State Police Command rescued 12 girls aged 12 to 16 from a prostitution activity and apprehended a woman trying to move three girls from Kaduna State to Ivory Coast, according to separate reports.
The Lagos State Police Command rescued 12 girls between the ages of 12 and 16 from a prostitution activity, according to allafrica. In a separate incident, police apprehended a woman for trying to move three girls from Kaduna State to Ivory Coast, as reported by dailypost.ng. The woman allegedly convinced the girls, aged 18 to 20, to travel from Kaduna to Lagos with promises of legitimate employment at a restaurant. Upon arrival in the Ajegunle area of Lagos on May 23, 2026, she allegedly said she intended to send them to Ivory Coast. One of the girls refused and reported the matter to police. The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Tijani, directed that the case be transferred from the Tolu Division, Ajegunle, to the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Yaba, for further investigation. The investigation into claims of illegal planning, false promises, and human trafficking is being handled by the Anti-Human Trafficking/Gender Unit of the SCID under the supervision of the Deputy Commissioner.
This account was written only from facts that survived Augur's
corroboration pass — 0 corroborated across opposed news blocs,
0 contested (attributed to both sides), 7
single-source (attributed). Nothing was added; no significance was inferred.
Model Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct.
See the evidence & the verbatim quotes →