This is as an international media body with over 300 media practitioners covering migration matters across the continents, Journalists International Forum For Migration, with headquarters in Lagos on Thursday petitioned the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and other organisations to come her rescue.
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The country has on Wednesday, 21st April, 2021, lifted the ban on Labour Migration, to allow overseas recruitment agencies to recruit Sierra Leoneans into decent jobs through the country’s local recruitment agencies.
Speaking in Calabar at the Cross River State Migration Summit with the theme: Utilizing The Gains Of Migration To Advance Economic Development In Nigeria on April 22, Ajibola Abayomi, the President of JIFORM comprising over 300 journalists across the continents argued that the existing laws in the country had failed to protect the rights to dignity of labour for Nigerians both within and outside the country.
Bolanle Sarumi-Aliyu, the Senior Special Assistant on Diaspora Matters to the State Governor confirmed the date, stating that the government would continue to initiate and promote sustainable development for the people.
African leaders, journalists, stakeholders, institutions and migration advocates beyond the continent would be converging at the Accra International Conference Centre, Ghana between February 25 and 26 for the event.
The event, which was chaired by Prof. Patrick Lumumba from Kenya, accommodated virtual participants.
Also named as Co-Chairman of the summit is Korede Ogunbunmi, the General Manager Radio Nigeria 103.5 FM, Lagos, Nigeria.
Also, JIFORM, on the second day of the event on October 16, 2020, a Nigerian lawmaker and Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora Matters, Tolulope Akande-Sadipe, will be honoured for her positive advocacy on migration matters alongside Pensioners’ FM, King FM and Federal Radio Corporation Nigeria, Ibadan for their commendable roles in promotion of safe and regular migration.
The media foundation praised the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government for several interventions leading to the rescue of stranded Nigerians, particularly in the Middle East and many Arab nations, in conjunction with the International Organization for Migration.
JIFORM is a registered media professional body and umbrella body for over 200 journalists covering migration across the continents.
This was as the body appealed to the government to defer the evacuation mission beyond the August 25, 2020 deadline to accommodate fresh 435 Nigerians women trafficked and stranded in Oman and Saudi Arabia, with 190 and 235 ladies respectively, on separate lists compiled by JIFORM, Synergy Rescue Initiative (Rescue Mission), Rescue Africans In Slavery foundation and the Nigerian community in Diaspora.
She arrived on that fateful day in the company of 14 other ladies on the same mission after meeting all the required conditions of an agent who connected her to work in the country as a housemaid.
JIFORM President, Ajibola Abayomi, in statement made available to the media on Sunday, said the body had the profile of 138 ladies trafficked to the Arabian nation by a company identified as TTCO.
Ajibola Abayomi, the President of JIFORM, made the comment during the fourth edition of the virtual online summit of the foundation with over 200 journalists covering migration across the globe on Friday.
The Nigeria Customs Service on Saturday gave graphic details of how the border drill embarked upon since August 20, 2019 has boosted local food production in the country.
The President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Comrade Chris Isiguzo, has declared the media as a crucial factor to national security in any nation.
Stakeholders at the Journalists International Forum For Migration online summit held on Saturday have called on African leaders to initiate financial bonds to fight the ravaging COVID-19 on the continent.
In a bid to keep journalists covering migration across the globe abreast of development on migration and COVID-19, the Journalists International Forum For Migration will on April 4, 2020 hold an online summit on its international platform.
Frontline advocacy foundation against irregular migration and human trafficking, Journalists International For Migration, has called on the Osun State Government and other well meaning Nigerians regarding the condition of a returnee, Benjamin Sesan Ojo, that requires urgent medical attention.
Journalists International Forum For Migration, a Foundation championing regular migration and anti-human trafficking crusade, in a bid to strengthen its structure across the globe has announced appointments of Country Coordinators and other officers while a news website for the body is to be unveiled.