In 2025, after hearing of a minor girl who, alongside her two companions, has been trafficked to Gambia from Nigeria and later Ghana as part of an effort to earn a living in search of a better place in 2022, and who has miraculously returned home back to Nigeria, the New Daily Prime reporters, Helen Okechukwu and Fatimah Idera thought that they should obtain some firsthand details of the tough times she faced from the girl herself.
In the early hours of 7 August, 2025, Newdailyprime journalists set out on a quest to interview the trafficked under-age minor, who has adopted the alias Adaeze, but ended up being subjected to forced labor and prostitution instead of receiving promised employment offers at the age of thirteen.
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On their way from Ikorodu to where the survivors location, the two journalists encountered quite a number of incidents on their way from delayed travel arrangements to cancellations by Uber drivers and even to getting stranded in Lagos traffic.
Once they got to Oshodi, the Nigerian Police stopped their Uber driver, requesting him to provide the documents of his vehicle.
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Although the two reporters explained and clarified that they were press men with appointments to attend to on time, the security personnel insisted that he must produce one document out of those he already provided.
The whole situation caused the reporters and the driver, along with the police officers, to head straight to the police station behind the Oshodi terminal, causing delay in their appointment with the survivor who wanted to tell her story to prevent others from suffering the same fate.
It took almost an hour for the Uber driver to finally board another Uber taxi for the reporters to continue their journey.
Throughout the process, they never let anything stop them from getting to the victims; rather, it gave them more strength to proceed with their report.
They spent about two hours interviewing the survivor whose stomach had expanded as she was expecting her baby.
At the end of the interview, the reporters encountered heavy traffic, which led them home slightly past 11pm.
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