The big Question to all these so called Twitter, Nairaland Fayose bandwagon (by the way Twitter and Nairaland votes dont count in Ekiti) should be asking themselves is where are Gov Fayose PDP allies in Ekiti? why the silent? reason? because they dont exist, from local govt ward level upwards they have all abandon defected, Fayose has no structure in Ekiti, people like Prince Dayo who where like PDP mighty oak in Ekiti have all left,you name it senators, house of reps, personal advisers etc, Fayose is standing in a empty house, its an open secret come Saturday Fayose will lose and nobody wants to be standing on deck with him on his sinking ship

johnnyvid:
Fayose and pdp governorship candidate, professor olusola Eleka will win massively and convincely in landslide victory on july 14. just write today's date down. today is endurance in all nooks and cranny of ekiti state. ekiti people are solidly behind professor olusola eleka of pdp. you haven't see anything yet.

What data are you looking at ? the PDP structure in the Ekiti has crumbled to state of non existent, almost the entire State Assembly legislation wants/has to deserted to APC, the state civil service hate the governor, a governor who has resorted to strong-armed tactics of holding the entire leadership of the transport union hostage in a futile attempt to disrupt the APC rally Guaranteed Landslide victory for APC come Saturday

Op you are a peddler of false information maybe it is ignorance maybe it is deliberate misinformation in order to ferment trouble only you can tell
please I impore all Nairalanders to disregard the OP and pay attention to the following statement by NERDC below

“The Management of NERDC hereby reiterates categorically that the subject offerings (Civic Education, Social Studies, Christian Religious Knowledge, Islamic Studies and Security Education) under the Religion and National Values Curriculum are distinct and taught separately on the time table.

“In this Curriculum, no child should be coerced or compelled to learn or be taught in school any religious studies not relating to the belief system professed by the child and his/her parents.

“CRK is still taught in schools; as a separate distinct subject with the accompanying Teachers’ Guide. There is no subject in the Nigerian School Curriculum called Islamic Arabic Studies nor anywhere in the world as being speculated.”

so I impore all Nlanders to reject the rumour mongering and false information floating around as a product of ignorant individuals who are either too lazy to investigate and get their facts right or maybe as mentioned before this it is a deliberate poly by these ignorant individuals to sow distrust and discord in the community

Lindsay Lohan has sparked speculation that she has converted to Islam after she deleted all of her Instagram posts
and simply wrote: “Alaikum salam” (peace be upon you) in her bio.

Reps for the actress have told the Muslim council that she is “in a period of renewal”, with the star first reading the Qu’ran in 2015.
Lindsay embraced the Muslim culture whilst helping refugees.

Muslims have warmly welcomed Lindsay to their religion, if she has converted, taking to social media to send her “peace and blessings”
as they admit that they are “proud” of her decision.

Lindsay has always been very spiritual and recently admitted that she strongly related to Islam, saying at the time
“My very close friends, who have been there for me a lot, in London are Saudi and they gave me the Qu’ran and I brought it to New York


“It opened doors for me to experience spiritually, to find another true meaning. This is who I am.”

Lately, Lindsay has been spending a lot of time working with refugees in Abu Dhabi and Syria, becoming very vocal about political matters on her popular social media accounts.

Lindsay has deleted all of her social media posts.
As well as removing all of her Instagram posts, Lindsay has also deleted all but one of her tweets, with the remaining message
reading “Please let us all come together and love each other.”

dukie25:
Buhari and members of Afonja, better known as Brown Roof Republic won't sleep tonight

are we the ones in prison? we hav got your messiah exactly where we want - in our net

Full respect to all our brave men both JFT and military boys my prayers and thanks to you all

Rivers State governor, Chief Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike has granted pardon to six inmates who are serving life imprisonment imposed on them upon conviction by a Court of Law.
A statement issued by state attorney-general and commissioner for Justice, Emma Aguma, in Port Harcourt, yesterday, also stated that the governor granted pardon to three condemned criminals, who were awaiting execution in Port Harcourt Prisons, in pursuant to the powers conferred on him by section 212 (1) (c) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 as amended.
The statement gave the names of the those on life imprisonment who were pardoned as Chukwuemeka O. Emeka, Akara Etteh, Emmanuel Ihenebiri, Samuel Amadi, Sgt. James Mordi and Tochukwu Chukwu.
The three condemned criminals who were pardoned include; Goddy David Faghawari, Kendu Uffort, and Emmanuel David Ekanem.
The statement reads in part, “His Excellency, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, CON, the Governor of Rivers State has, upon the advise of the Rivers State Advisory Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy and pursuant to the powers conferred on him by section 212 (1) (c) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 as amended, has granted a reprieve to the convicts listed below by substituting the terms of imprisonment already served by them for the sentences of either life imprisonment or death imposed on them upon conviction by a Court of Law
“The Comptroller of Prisons, Port Harcourt is authorized and commanded to, upon the receipt of the Instrument signed under the hand of His Excellency, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, CON, the Governor of Rivers State on the 1st day of October 2016, to discharge the above named persons from the Port Harcourt Prisons by releasing them and the said instrument shall be a sufficient warrant for so doing.”
http://leadership.ng/news/553073/wike-pardons-6-life-sentence-criminals

People please lets us get the facts straight the inflation Emefiele is talking about is not about too much naira chasing few goods(people let us use our brain, think now, if federal and state govt wages are very low at the moment and everyone is saying that there no money in town how come is there too much Naira runing about?) if you read Emefiele statement some of the reasons the CBN will not reduce their rates is becos past lessons have shown that the banks
1. Never reciprocated the action by lowering their interest rates to the public
2.They did not increase their lending to the general public
3.They took advantages of the extra cash derived from low CBN rates to engage in speculative currency manipulation
Emefiele.....
“Our own view at the MPC, which was exhaustively discussed, is that in the past, there was a time when the MPC took the decision to reduce the policy rate and the cash reserves. These were intended to lower rate and encourage spending to the private sector. After we did that, the following meeting we said because we did not see the impact of credit to the private sector that we needed to further reduce the CRR.”
Now the inflation Emefiele is talking about is the speculative activites in the currency market which is control by the banking sector
The CBN governor said the committee was of the view that in the past when the rates were reduced to achieve these objectives, it was later discovered that rather than deploy the available liquidity to provide credit to agriculture and manufacturing sectors, it provided opportunities for lending to traders who deployed the same liquidity in putting pressure on the foreign exchange market

So people the task at hand is to find a way to make cheap money available to manufacturing agricultural sectors any ideals? anybody?

vedaxcool:
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Govt cuts its own interest rate of borrowing to banks which in turn cuts its own interest rate. In the us the rates are so low close to 2% if I remember right.


I feel this Emefiele guy should be shown the way out.

You are very correct, so is the minister of finance that is in theoritical world, on paper lower CBN interest rates should translate to lower interest rates from the banks to the general public but the fact is that the Nigerian banks operate with a different philosophy before it use to be maintaining and sustaining politics, now it is all about currency speculations this is the latest fad, and this is why the CBN does not want to lower rates in fact they will rather raise the rates inorder to nullifiy any speculative gains that can be achieved by obtaining bank loans mainly to buy dollars, hoard, then sell later at prime time. The Nigerian banks are yet to adapt the principles of economics growth, it has always been about Govt money and corruption it is one of the reason they resisted TSA.

This man is either a saboteur or he is out of his depths, Nigeria needs a stronger willed and more focused CBN governor, he is suppose to be smart but all he doing is trial and error methods, Nigeria needs a disciplined intelligent individual who is able to not only think out of the box but also able to comprehend situations. Emefiele has been making to many school boy errors like trying to defend the Naira aganist the dollar (when Russia who has deep deep pockets quickly abandoned the policy after a few months) or raising interest rates to 14% when entities like the UK and EU are cutting interest rates, also why try a create a monopoly for western union and moneygram by stipulating conditions that another competitors will fine virtually impossible do when simple commonsense dictates that you should create an environment that will encourage these companies that deal with foreign currencies to come to your shores (I mean if countries like the US, China, UK and EU encourages these companies why chase them away)
The Bottom line is that Nigeria needs foreign currencies we do not need the Naira to be in competition with these currencies, we also do not need our foreign currencies to be available to every dick and harry, priorities should be given to sectors like agriculture, power and industries and health industriies, let everyone else source their own currencies if you want to import tooth picks fine but you have to find your own dollars on the alternative market

Brother/Sister stop been in denial this project you are working on is WRONG regardless inside the month of Ramadan or outside Ramadan, what you are doing is a BAD deed, your actions carry a multiplying effect of an accumulative nature i.e every bad deed derived from your pictures you as an individual will recieve a share in the deed. Technically you are fasting but is you fast be accepted if it can not stop you from snapping these kinds of pictures? is it becos you are weak? Do not take the significance of Ramadan lightly, is this project going to feed you and your family for the rest of your life? must it be you that should do this project? why you?, Ramadan is the time to maximize your blessings and efforts, my brother/sister strive and sacrifice for the next 15 days, nobody is perfect all we can do is try our best, but try we must.

Dcomrade:

Why such hatred bro? What are the benefits thus far? There is life outside politics....easy Sir.

It not hatred bro, it just that these same old faces of PDP own Nigerians an apology, none of them has ever open their mouths and said corruption is wrong, they have never gone on record to condem corruption, they have refused to repent, we know they stole our money, they know we know yet they are fighting tooth and nail for power, at least the NLC negotiated for a higher minimum wage in exchange for subsidy removal what did PDP do last week?

TonyeBarcanista:
We told them that there is no division in PDP, but our brothers from the broom camp doubted us.

PDP is one, NO DIVISION!!!!


ASO ROCK 2019

A week is a long time in politics, ...H Wilson, When the Buhari led APC government removed fuel subsidy my only prayer was that in-fighting and disunity in PDP continued for at least one more week, praise be to Almighty God we are in week two since subsidy removal and PDP still remains disunited its supporters dejected and disenfranchised meanwhile Muhammadu Buhari the Chosen one continues to guide Nigeria away from the jaws collaspe and failure, Never again will a clueless, corrupt, untrustworthy rotten party like PDP rule nigeria again, look at their faces same old theives and crimimals Never Again

I for one do not regret voting for Buhari, come 2019 I will not only vote but use my personal resources to campaign for him, the fuel subsidy removal is long over due for africa's largest oil exporter importing petrol is a slap on the collective intelligence of all the black people it says we are stupid ignorant and sub-human the Asians will never do something like this, talkless of the white man, instead of monopolising the market in africa we have been importing fuel, shame on you, shame on all you Nigerians, now you making empty noise like chickens desperately trying to hold on to a failed system that has never solved fuel availability in Nigeria and only succeeded in making a few people super rich at the expense of your collective development, is it petrol you want to eat and drink? how about those countries that do not have crude oil how are they surviving? Praise be to the Almighty for giving us a strong man in Buhari, forward ever backwards never there is no going back, I trust Buhari he is not looking at anybody's face if you like occupy the street for one year na there na go dey 4 life

budosky:
@Op Please What is durood? And was it the prophet that asked us to be doing it? And in which hadith can it be found... Thanks as you reply

Durood is the prayer/saluatation we say on our Beloved Prophet sallahu alaihi wasalaam, there different ones for example
Allaahumma salli alaa Muhammadin wa alaa aali Muhammadin kama sallayta alaa Ibraaheema wa alaa aali Ibraahima innaka Hameedum Majeed
Allaahumma baarik alaa Muhammadin wa alaa aali Muhammadin kamaa baarakata alaa Ibraaheema wa alaa aali Ibraaheema innaka Hameedum Majeed


I hope this helps
Rabbighfirli wa tub alayya innaka anta-tawabur-Raheem

We should also read Surah(18) Al Kahf

ademoladeji:
OP, Is it wrong saying BismiLlah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem preceding all verses including Al_Fathia during Solat?

We should quietly say at the start of the Salat
1: Subhaanakal-laahumma wa bihamidika wa-tabaarakas-muka wa ta'aalaa jadduka wa laa ilaaha ghayruka
2: A'oodhu billlaahi minash-shaytaanir-rajeem
3: Bismillaahir-Rahmaanir-Raheem
4: Al-Fatihah
afterwards in all preceeding Surahs Bismillaahir-Rahmaanir-Raheem should be said quietly inaudible to the people

I have photocopier and there is light in my area so all wailers are welcome
Foward Ever Backwards Never Buhari Forever

Once again history is about to repeat itself, in the last election PDP imposed alot of unpopular choices on its followers the end result was that PDP lost the election, it is clear that many grassroot supporters want change within the party yet a few are once again dictating to the many and without question, as sure as the sun will rise up in morning expect massive defection in PDP, guranteed, triple gurantueed.

MadCow1:
Its a Normal thing Na...




Is any place clean in Ibadan?

What about Aba? put toilet and suckeraway together and what you get is Aba

The problem with our states is that they over recruit workers for the sake of politics, ideally no states should spend more 35% of its total revenues on wages, personally I wish a law exist that states that if all state employees do not get their wages then neither should the governor, his deputy nor any member of the assembly should recieved any wages too.

Autchman11:
As at when they were having free ride with forex, dollar exchange was at 165/$, but when it becomes restricted, it went up to 323/$.
Does it mean this move is actually crippling our economy whilst we are unaware?
Trying to make this economy a mono type is not ripe for us at this stage. My position.

No when dollar was 165 Naira crude oil was high naturally Nigeria was making alot of dollars hence, now crude is low therefore amount of dollars Nigeria is making is less.
Initailly I actually avocated the devaluation of Naira but the Egyptian situation changed my mind, the Egyptian followed IMF/World Bank recommedations and devalued thier currency and it made the situation worse.
My bro we r in this situation becos we did not save for a rainy day, we did not upgrade our infrastructure and we not diversify our economy.

He is not been witch hunted, he is been wizard-hunted and Tinubu is still loading the app

Op Pls do not think along narrow tribalistic and biased lines intellectual capability,business acumen and agricultural prowess runs in the DNA of most Nigerians, any student of history willl point out that the Nigeria today was formed from ancient kingdoms which were self reliant and prosperous in their own right, while it is true that Southern Delta of Nigeria lags behind the rest of the Nation let us not forget the important fact that most of the political leaders of the Niger Delta are among the worst most corrupt politicans of modern Nigeria, truly without doubt they lack compassion for their people, they seem to take no pride in developmental progress, and lack vision and foresight, while it is true that all politicans have skeletons in their cupboards, the Easterner/Northerner/Westerner politican takes pride and identifies with his land they have now become so smart and sophisticated that they enrich themselves thru developmental projects that benefit their people, on the other hand the Niger Delta leader collaborates with militancy, distributes weapons to its jobless youth, does nothing to curb insecurities, the resultant effect is that nobody wants to go there even wealthy people from the area do not want to invest their wealth in the area, it is a vicious circle.

Op your write up is very interesting and quite good but it is too long we are longer in school so stop giving us homework to read, having said that I am of the opinion that in the long run dollar exchange rates will fall by the end of the year if both govt are serious, both countries are winners, China has long desired for its currency to become a mainstream means of exchange like the dollar, euro and pound so teaming with the most populous country in african is a major coup, Nigeria on the other hand we can do without made in china goods so this is good news for importers becos they no longer need to source for dollar when travelling to china since the Yuan will be readily available to them in Nigeria.

AntiWailer:
They should enjoy it.

Their Governor is receiving treatment abroad because of his insanity.

How else will I describe a conference with business men at an open train station in China. I don't think this is politics, the guy needs medical attention. The earlier Ekiti people knows, the better for them.

Doing stand up comedy and saying he is speaking with business men

useless man.


Look at the picture critically.

Where are the business men ?

The Chinese doctors have increased his medication and placed him under observation so on behalf of his family I ask all Nigerians to please monitor his behaviour for the next two week

You Ipob peeps are the dirtiest prostitues in the history of mankind, after opening your legs to Saraki na don abandon am to his unknown fate, Fayose! Fayose! Fayose! no close your eyes, you see your Ipob supporters as they turn Saraki into sacrifice for dem oracle wey dey arochukwu, even small pikin know say na PDP be the bedrock of Saraki, na dem carry am put for office, na dem dey follow like fowl pikin go court everyday, NigerDelta peep make na no sleep, buy kolanut and open your eyes if Ipob carry na go with Biafra, dem go push all na enter water carry your land from na, dem no get mercy a word for the wise - anybody who wan chop with Ipob make him go buy long, very long, the longest spoon 4 market so that before dem fit grab am hin dont find some way escape, if not na arochukwu go b hin final destination

The Hopes and dreams of a brighter tomorrow for future younger generations of Nigerians recieved a major boost as President Xi Jinping of China made available instant credit of $6 Billion to President Buhari of Nigeria, it is no secret that President Xi Jinping who also is a strong anti corruption reformer is a big admirer of President Muhammadu Buhari who was warmly recieved in Beijing.
China has offered Nigeria loans worth $6bn (£4.2bn) to fund infrastructure projects in Africa's biggest economy, the Nigerian foreign minister said on Tuesday, Reuters news agency reports.
"It is a credit that is on the table as soon as we identify the projects," Geoffrey Onyeama told reporters travelling with President Muhammadu Buhari to China, Reuters adds.
"It won't need an agreement to be signed; it is just to identify the projects and we access it," he said.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-africa

There will never be praises from me no GEJ and PDP family and friends circles who after ruling Nigeria at a time of record revennue could not build a single functioning refinery, I see all these triblistic Ipod boys and girls singing the praise of the past pdp thieves and cowards, becos power has shifted from their region of influence, they lack the basic principles of truth honnor and nobility, how do they feel that in 2016 Nigeria one of the largest producers of crude oil is importing petrol from abroad.

"Meanwhile, a lawyer to the former CDS, Mr. Samuel Zibiri (SAN), told SUNDAY PUNCH on Saturday that the two sureties the court mandated his client to produce had been secured and their details as well as the Certificates of Occupancy for their respective landed assets had been forwarded to the Chief Registrar for verification.

He said the ex-CDS should be out of prison by Monday."

Imagine how deep the rot has gone under the former govt if some people inorder to keep their dirty secrets hidden are willing to cough up 2bn to bail this man

Once more like during the time of prophet Moses the rebelious photocopy children of Israel have reared their ugly heads again, they ignore the fact that NNPC which has been a loss making entity for the last decade has recently been broken up and cleaned out. The efforts of the Apc led govt to flush away the demons, saboteurs, raiders and vampires of the oil sector who have been feeding on the flesh of the people deserves support, so why is it that some sections of the people instead of supporting the cleanup in NNPC r unhappy, they want the cleanup to fail, they jubilate at any slight percieved fuel scarcity and they call 4 the return to the days of unaccountability and the days of smash and grab, when it is clear to every reasoning sane persons that the fuel SCARCITY under Sai Buhari can b liken to the fuel NORMALITY under GEJ.

The world of Nigeria's sex-trafficking
source: www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35244148
Last year, the BBC's Sam Piranty was given access by the Catalan police, Mossos D'Esquadra, to an investigation into a Nigerian sex-trafficking gang. He spoke to traffickers and women rescued from sexual slavery before filming an early morning raid in November, which led to 23 arrests. He also discovered that the gang is now using London as a gateway into Europe.
It's 08:00 in the Catalan Police Headquarters on the outskirts of Barcelona and Xavi Cortes, head of the anti-trafficking unit, waits patiently for his 22 teams to confirm they are in position. Finally, he gives the order.
Two-hundred-and-fifty officers quietly climb out of their police vans. Single file, each team approaches a residential building watched by a few surprised neighbours.
On reaching the door, one of the masked police officers uses his fingers to count down. Three, two, one. The door is knocked down, the silence shattered, the officers rush inside.
The raid results in the arrest of the leaders of a Nigerian-based group running an international sex-trafficking ring in Barcelona. It's known as the Supreme Eiye Confraternity (SEC), or the Air Lords, and 23 people are now behind bars, with European Arrest Warrants issued for those who have left the country
This operation was 18 months in the planning and involved monitoring more than a million phone calls, tapping dozens of mobile phones and months of surveillance.
Cortes and his team first came across the group in 2011 during a forgery investigation, but quickly discovered it was a huge network trafficking women and drugs.
He asks me to look at his screen. On it is a map detailing all the locations they have identified where members of the SEC operate. Cities are marked in Europe, North, West and East Africa, North and South America, the Middle East and Asia.
Eiye in Yoruba, the main language of south-western Nigeria means "bird". The group's insignia is an eagle and each city containing members is called a "nest", with the "mother nest" in Ibadan, about 100km (60 miles) north-east of Lagos.
The group uses forged documents and passports from Nigeria to fly into places like Gatwick - these need co-operation of people working in the governmentXavi Cortes, Catalan police
The group was started at the University of Ibadan in the 1970s, and the original intention was to make a positive contribution to society. Over time, however, many members went astray, committing violence in Nigeria and delving into crime abroad.
The group now traffics human beings and narcotics (cocaine and marijuana) and forges passports. It has also facilitated the transport of stolen crude oil into Europe.
"They are able to earn money in many ways, but we are focused on human-trafficking and the victims," says Cortes.
His second-in-command, Alex Escola, then tells me something remarkable.
"You know, one of the tappings showed us that last year, on 7 July, around 400 members of SEC met in Geneva. They had a big meeting, all together."
It was an audacious display of arrogance. In a city where many of the world's global institutions are headquartered, including numerous UN agencies, a global criminal institution held its own parallel international gathering and no-one tried to stop it.
Benin City, Nigeria, is a human-trafficking hub, and a good place to observe how the criminal operation works.
After long negotiations, our team manages to speak to a recruiter, whose job it is to find girls. The recruiter explains that they either approach girls directly or through their families offering fake jobs abroad in a supermarket, or as a cleaner.
However, not everyone is tricked. Many women approach the recruiters themselves, often in full knowledge that they will be working as a prostitute in Europe. Some parents, also aware of this, approach recruiters on behalf of their children.
One of the girls kept asking for water - the men did not like it so they threw her out in the desert in LibyaSarah
Destiny, who was 19 when she was trafficked to Spain three years ago, told me she knew sex would be involved but had never imagined she would be turned into a sex slave.
"If you live in Benin, there are many girls who came back from [Spain] with lots of money. They told us they had to have sex sometimes," she says. "We are not stupid but I did not know I would be beaten and raped and have to have sex every night of the week."
NGOs in Benin City say many of the recruiters now look outside the major cities in order to find girls who have not heard their warnings about the reality of life for trafficked women, or the stories of those like Destiny who have returned and are now alerting others to the dangers.
Once recruited, the girls are then taken to Lagos or to northern Nigeria where they are picked up by men known as "coyotes" or "trolleys".
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Like many migrants, trafficked women are often taken across the Sahara Desert
The journey to Europe is perilous. Wire taps reveal how coyotes transporting women were stopped by armed groups in the deserts of Niger or southern Libya demanding thousands of euros for them to pass.
"One phone call from a coyote to SEC showed how a coyote was saying, 'I have a gun on my head and they want money,'" says Cortes.
A woman who was herself trafficked tells me about other horrors.
One man was taking care of us - he would have sex with us, rape us. Then I became pregnantSarah
"The journey took weeks," says Sarah, who arrived in Spain in 2013 at the age of 21. "One of the girls kept asking for water. The men did not like it so they threw her out in the desert in Libya. They left her and we continued the journey. They told the boss on the phone that she was killed by terrorists. We were not human beings. We were animals."
Once girls are trafficked across the desert, they are then taken to "keepers", who often rape them before they cross to Europe.
"When we got to Libya they put us in a house," says Sarah. "This is when I knew we would not be working in a supermarket. One man was taking care of us. He would have sex with us, rape us. Then I became pregnant."
Women who insist they will not work as prostitutes are tied up in a position called "the crocodile". Their hands tied to their feet, they are left for days with no food or water. Some are left to die as an example to others.
Keepers often get the women pregnant prior to making the crossing to Spain. With a child or pregnant, they stand a better chance of not being deported, and the men can use access to the child as a form of blackmail to keep the women under control.
Two years ago, at a time when the coyotes reported Libya had become too dangerous, recorded phone calls show that the girls were taken instead to Greece, via Yemen, Iran and Turkey. And today, as the Mediterranean becomes more difficult to cross - and the authorities try harder to detect traffickers - the SEC has begun to use airports in the UK more frequently.
"This is a more expensive option for the group," Cortes tells me. "They use forged documents and passports from Nigeria to fly into places like Gatwick. The language is also easier for them. These documents are expensive though and need co-operation of people working in the government to get."
One evening in Barcelona, I head out with the undercover surveillance team. At around 10pm, plain-clothes officers in an unmarked car drive me to Badalona on the edge of the city.
We are taken to a top-floor flat where police have spent hundreds of hours watching the house opposite. A light is on in the window and shadows move between the curtains, before someone appears on the balcony - a madame.
Most of the women that make it to Europe live in flats with a few other women and their madame - almost always a trafficked woman, who has managed to pay off her debt. Girls arrive knowing they must earn a sum, which may be from 30,000 to 60,000 euros (£22,000 to £44,000), before they will be free.
There are two ranks of madame. Lower-ranking madames prowl the streets - many on la Rambla, the main tourist strip in the centre of Barcelona - constantly texting and calling their girls to check on their whereabouts. Girls are told to earn about 500 euros (£370) a night to stay in the madame's good books.
But clients, mostly tourists, may pay as little as 20 euros (£15) for sex, so this is often impossible.
After a night's work, girls return home and divide their earnings into three. One part goes to pay for the flat, the second to pay for food and the third goes to the SEC. If they are not earning enough or refuse to work, the madames may beat them.
Higher-ranking madames collect money from their subordinates to pass on to local SEC leaders known as ibakkas. Always men, the ibakkas run the whole operation. They facilitate payment through the hawala system - a form of money transfer based on trust and one that is difficult to trace
The size of the network means those arrested will be replacedXavi Cortes, Catalan Police
Ibakkas make sure that if any of their girls step out of line, their families back home are threatened. Family members have been known to be abducted and "disappeared" when girls refuse to pay their madames.
One woman, Jessica, who was trafficked to Spain in 2009, says two of her daughters, now in their early 20s, left home in Benin to escape the gang. One is in Dubai, the other in Morocco waiting to cross to Spain.
But in escaping one group of traffickers, they have put themselves in the hands of another.
"In order to pay the debt, they will be prostitutes too," says Jessica.
Tragically, this is not an isolated case.
It's a few days after the raid and Cortes seems content. Back in the office, dressed in full uniform, he details the large quantities of phones, computers, fake passports and documents seized at the time of the arrests.
Despite that, there is a hint of frustration in his smile.
"The size of the network means those arrested will be replaced," he says.
According to recent wire taps, one of the major European co-ordinators of the group is looking to restructure the gang. The ibakka, based in London, was trying to get his 95 other European counterparts together for a meeting.
This kind of organised crime cannot simply be tackled locally. Arresting madames and taking women off the streets merely increases the demand for more women from Nigeria. This is an organised crime group, run by men, operating across the world. This is a network which requires a global police response.