Nigerian women are main victims of sex trade

African women, mainly Nigerian, accounted for two-thirds of all victims of sex trafficking assisted by an Irish charity last year.

Ruhama said organised crime ran the “bulk of prostitution” in Ireland and that the charity worked with 92 victims of trafficking in 2016.

It said the women were from 23 different nationalities, with 60 coming from Africa — 43 from Nigeria alone.