Obama appoints Nigerian journalist on US
Human Trafficking Council


Bukola
United States President, Barrack Obama
has named a Nigerian-American journalist
and Anti-human Trafficking advocate,
Bukola Love Oriola as a member of the US
Advisory Council on Human Trafficking.
In a statement by the office of the Press
Secretary, White House on December 16,
Obama said he was honoured that Oriola
and ten others appointed to serve on the
council have decided to serve the country.
“They bring their years of experience and
expertise to this Administration, and I look
forward to working with them,” Obama
stated.
According to White House statement,
Oriola, has served as an independent
consultant, speaker, and author on human
trafficking issues since 2009.
She founded The Entian Story in 2013, a
non-profit organization which advocates for
survivors of human trafficking and
domestic abuse after her personal
experience when she relocated to the US
from Nigeria.
“In 2009, Ms. Oriola published her book
Imprisoned: The Travails of a Trafficked
Victim and began producing Imprisoned
Show. Ms. Oriola has owned and managed
Bukola Braiding and Beauty Supply since
2007. She was a reporter and researcher
for Century Media Limited in Lagos, Nigeria
from 2003 to 2005. Ms. Oriola received an
A.S. from The Polytechnic Ibadan, Oyo.”
She began her journalism career in Nigeria
in 2000 at Common Interest
Communications, Publishers of the defunct
National Interest Newspapers and later
joined the defunct New Age Newspaper.
In 2005, Oriola won the Cadbury National
Award for Education Reporters and is a
fellow of the International Institute for
Journalism, Germany.
Responding to her appointment, Oriola who
was in Nigeria in September on
sensitization campaign against human
trafficking, said she was grateful and
humbled.
“Please join in thanking God on my behalf.
I regard the appointment as an opportunity
to do more than I have been doing in
advocating against Human Trafficking in
the United States and in other parts of the
world.”