Report: How Boko Haram uses women, girls for sex slavery

The Boko Haramv Islamic sect  has recruited and used child soldiers, as young as 12-year-olds, as well as abducted women and girls, some of whom are subjected to domestic servitude, forced labour and sex slavery through forced marriages to its militants, the 2014 Trafficking in Persons Report has stated.

It said the Federal Government had yet to fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of human trafficking,

The report however noted that the government was making significant efforts to do so by increasing anti-trafficking prosecutions and convictions and by providing extensive specialised anti-trafficking trainings to officials from various ministries and agencies.