Abstract
Human trafficking entails a variety of crimes and abusers connected with the recruitment, movement and sale of people into a range of exploitative situations in Nigeria and all over the world. Human trafficking is complex phenomenon which requires States to legislatively arm themselves to confront it as a serious crime, committed by criminals and perpetrated against victims. The Trafficking in Person (Prohibition) Enforcement and Administration Act 2015 and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (herinafter the Palermo Protocol), supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (hereinafter the TOC Convention) require the implementation of laws which can properly respond to human trafficking, in as nuanced and effective a way as the crime is complex and injurious. The successful prosecution of traffickers and compensation of victims can only be brought about by laws and regulations which have effectively criminalised all elements of trafficking in persons in accordance with 13 of (TIPPEAA) 2015 and Article 5 of the Palermo Protocol. The complex interplay of elements requires that laws be broad enough to cover the varied ways in which people are being exploited, while simultaneously being specific enough to address the often convoluted process of trafficking.The government of Nigeria and some States in Nigeria have made enormous and frantic efforts to combat the act of human trafficking. Respectively, the legal and institutional framework for combating human trafficking will be clearly established. Apart from the legal and institutional framework for combating the act, this paper suggests other possible ways for combating the act of human trafficking in Nigeria.
Keywords: Contemporary, Legal Framework, Human Trafficking