Desk research to identify available statistical data on labour migration and human trafficking in Nigeria

Labout migration is an important component of migration. In resent years. labour migration has become popular. According to ILO (2004), as at 2000 there were 175 million international migrants equivalent in number to be the world's fifth most populous country. In 1991, migrants from ECOWAS countries into Nigeria constituted the highest mainly from Ghana, Gambia, Sierra Leone among others, and followed by migrants from Europe.