{"id":170255,"date":"2025-07-19T20:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T19:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/bauchi-govt-takes-570-sex-workers-off-streets"},"modified":"2025-07-19T22:04:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T21:04:31","slug":"bauchi-govt-takes-570-sex-workers-off-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bauchi-govt-takes-570-sex-workers-off-streets","title":{"rendered":"Bauchi govt takes 570 sex workers off streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Bauchi State Hisbah board has rehabilitated over 570 commercial sex workers, equipping them with vocational skills and start-up capital to begin new lives.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of the state Hisbah board, Barr. Aminu Balarabe Isa, revealed the initiative aims to reintegrate the women, referred to as \u201cwomen of free virtue,\u201d into society through sustainable means of livelihood.<\/p>\n<p>The beneficiaries, drawn from across the state, received training in tailoring, hairdressing, makeup artistry, and other trades.<\/p>\n<p>Barr Isa explained that the commission had initially considered marrying off the women but discovered that most resorted to prostitution due to poverty and hardship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of forcing marriage on them, we decided to address the root cause, which is poverty, by empowering them with skills and start-up capital,\u201d Isa said.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that the program represents a shift from punitive to restorative justice, rooted in Islamic values.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Bauchi State Hisbah board has rehabilitated over 570 commercial sex workers, equipping them with vocational skills and start-up capital to begin new lives. Chairman of the state Hisbah board, Barr. Aminu Balarabe Isa, revealed the initiative aims to reintegrate the women, referred to as \u201cwomen of free virtue,\u201d into society through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":170253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[463,254,18081],"class_list":["post-170255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-bauchi","tag-nigeria","tag-sex-workers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bauchi govt takes 570 sex workers off streets - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Bauchi State Hisbah board has rehabilitated over 570 commercial sex workers, equipping them with vocational skills a ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bauchi-govt-takes-570-sex-workers-off-streets\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bauchi govt takes 570 sex workers off streets\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Bauchi State Hisbah board has rehabilitated over 570 commercial sex workers, equipping them with vocational skills a ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bauchi-govt-takes-570-sex-workers-off-streets\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-19T19:55:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-19T21:04:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1752946559.166892.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1244\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1180\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bauchi-govt-takes-570-sex-workers-off-streets#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bauchi-govt-takes-570-sex-workers-off-streets\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Bauchi govt takes 570 sex workers off streets\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-19T19:55:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-19T21:04:31+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bauchi-govt-takes-570-sex-workers-off-streets\"},\"wordCount\":159,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bauchi-govt-takes-570-sex-workers-off-streets#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1752946559.166892.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Bauchi\",\"Nigeria\",\"sex workers\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bauchi-govt-takes-570-sex-workers-off-streets#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bauchi-govt-takes-570-sex-workers-off-streets\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bauchi-govt-takes-570-sex-workers-off-streets\",\"name\":\"Bauchi govt takes 570 sex workers off streets - 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