Children are still being sold for money by their mothers.
In Katsina state the Nigerian police have arrested a woman for attempting to sell her one month old twin daughters to a potential buyer that alerted the police.
The Nigerian police have made many arrests involving women trying to sell their babies but the latest arrest has been a woman in Katsina state who was attempting to sell her one-month-old twin girls.
Although she has been charged with child trafficking the police are looking into adding additional charges after she was allegedly caught in the process of attempting to sell her daughter for the price of N350,000 to a buyer who informed them.
The 30-year-old mother of twins baby girls didn't make any official plea at her court appearance in Katsina state.
She did divulge during her interrogation by the police that she was facing economic challenges causing her to seek a buyer who would buy her children.
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Crackdown on child trafficking in Nigeria
The Nigerian government passed the Trafficking in Persons Prohibition and Administration Act and established the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) in 2003 in the bid to fight human trafficking.
Seventeen pregnant teenage girls and 11 babies were rescued from a house in Nigeria's south-eastern Imo state, police said in 2013 after they had a tip-off about a "baby factory".
However, even though there has been public outrage and the government has promised a crackdown on child trafficking, cases of Nigerian mothers selling their babies or being caught in the process of attempting to sell their babies continue to happen.