Amina Titi Atiku-Abubakar

Titi Amina Atiku Abubakar was born into a Christian home to Albert Yoruba family from Ilesa,[2][3] Osun state. Her primary and secondary education was at a missionary school,[4] a Roman Catholic institution. She was raised in Lagos and later married Atiku Abubakar, before attending Kaduna Polytechnic.[5] Apart from English, she speaks Yoruba and Hausa languages fluently.[6]

She was a lecturer at Kaduna State Polytechnic.[7]

While in Rome to further her education in 1986 and 1987, she saw many Nigerian girls on the street. After making inquiry, she realized that many of the girls served as prostitutes for their madams,[8] and quite often were not paid. She also found out that they were deceived with promises to work in Italy, and this prompted her to pledge to combat such incidences upon her return.

In 1999, when her husband, Atiku Abubakar became Nigeria's Vice President, she used the opportunity to start an advocacy to end forced prostitution and other forms of human trafficking. First, she founded Women Trafficking and Child Labour Eradication Foundation (WOTCLEF), and then sponsored a private bill for strict punishment for traffickers, and for the establishment of a federal agency, the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, responsible for fighting trafficking of persons in Nigeria. She also ran education courses welcoming girls and rehabilitating them and repatriating them from different countries back home.[9]

• Annual Nigerian Women's Award (2002)[10]
• D'linga Award (2010)[11]

Amina Titi Abubakar is the author of anumber of publications including:[12]

• Educating the Nigerian Child[13]
• Empower Law to Fight Child Slavery[14]
• Let Us Celebrate Humanity: A collected speeches on women's right and human trafficking[15]

• Atiku Abubakar
• Oluwaseun Osowobi