EDO STATE, NIGERIA- August 9-10, 2017. PJI was honored to welcome the M. Night Shyamalan Foundation on its first ever visit to Nigeria! The visit brought the team to Lagos and then to Benin City, Edo State, where they were able to meet with a group of our survivors and hear their stories of survival […]
Archives for August 2017
UK Government Pledges Additional Funding to Fight Modern Slavery in Nigeria
LAGOS, NIGERIA- The International Development Secretary for the United Kingdom (U.K.), Priti Patel, announced that an additional £7 million will be made available to support the efforts to combat modern slavery and human trafficking in Nigeria. Ms. Patel called for “a world free from the abhorrent trade of modern slavery” during a trip to Lagos […]
PJI Provides Vocational Skills Training for Widowed IDPs
BENIN CITY, NIGERIA- August 10, 2017. Via our Hearts of Hope Project, which provides support to survivors of the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria, and in partnership with CWFI Skills Acquisition Centre, PJI provided our quarterly vocational skills training to 50 widows at the ICCF Missions Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Camp in Benin City. (The […]
PJI Continues Collaboration with NAPTIP (Benin Zonal Command)
BENIN CITY, NIGERIA- August 11, 2017. PJI paid a courtesy visit to NAPTIP (Nigeria’s National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons) Benin Zonal Command to congratulate newly installed Zonal Commander, Barrister Nduka Nwanwene, on his recent appointment as Zonal Commander of NAPTIP’s busiest zonal command. Barrister Nwanwene reiterated NAPTIP’s willingness to continue to […]