See Lagos Prostitutes Featured By British Photographer In DailyMail Report (Photos)

A series of photographs taken in the slums of Lagos shows the faces of sex workers living in squalid conditions.

And the images have a tragic undercurrent, with tens of thousands of people in the sex trade diagnosed with HIV each year, and millions dying from AIDS across Nigeria.

A study in 2013 found that nearly a quarter of Nigerian sex workers have HIV


A survey conducted last year has also highlighted that attitudes towards condom use is helping the spread of the condition, and research suggests that nearly a quarter of Nigerian sex workers have HIV.

The pictures were taken in a Lagos slum, where girls as young as 14 entertain up to five clients per day

The pictures were taken by photographer Ton Koene in Lagos, Nigeria's largest city

A woman stands next to an advert encouraging condom use, in a country where researchers found more needs to be done to change attitudes toward safe sex

The pictures were taken by photographer Ton Koeneon in a Lagos slum named Badia.

There are currently an estimated 1.2million people in Lagos, Nigeria's largest city, living with HIV.

He said his driver had quipped: 'If you arrive by car, you can smell the HIV virus outside.'

A man speaks to a woman in the Badia slum in Lagos, where hundreds of women work in the sex trade in order to survive

In Badia, sex workers as young as 14, trying to earn money to survive, entertain around five clients a day.

Last year a study by the Iranian Journal of Public Health noted that the country has a 4.1 per cent HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in adults.

Thanks to investment and education, the study found, the rate had fallen from five per cent in the early 2000s, but it said there is still some way to go.

Three years ago, research by the Journal of the International AIDS Society found the prevalence among sex workers in Nigeria was 24.3 per cent.

Last year's study said women often found they could not ask their husbands or boyfriends to wear condoms, and were not expected to carry them.

One respondent, a 28-year-old marketing executive, said: 'The problem is that you cannot even suggest the use of that thing to your boyfriend.

A sex worker smokes a cigarette in the series of photographs taken by photographer Ton Koene

'It’s like if you say it you are accusing him of sleeping around or that you are not sure of yourself. No matter which one, it can end the relationship and give you a bad name.'

It stated: 'To confirm this cultural barrier to access to prevention tools, only one female respondent... has ever gone to buy a condom for her boyfriend, while all the other female respondents were of the view that they would not like their parents and spouses to see them with condoms.'

A 42-year-old father of three told researchers in the study: 'Any woman, including my wife who tells her husband about it or gets it for them to use needs to be questioned. In short, she should be seriously sanctioned.'

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Lagos Police To Stop 2face’s Led Protest From Happening

The Lagos State Police Commissioner Fatai Owoseni on Wednesday said he will not allow the planned protest against the Federal Government slated for February 5 to hold in the state.

Popular musician, TuFace Idibia who joined the call for protest by some concerned Nigerians over the state of the nation, had used his social media platforms to appeal to his supporters to join the movement.

But Owoseni, who had earlier stated that there was no official request from the protesters notifying security agencies of their plan, said Wednesday that intelligence report indicates that criminals might hijack the process.

According to the police chief, the command wasn’t ready for that kind of demonstration and as such would not allow it to hold.

He said no matter how good an intention is, hoodlums would always find a way to harass, rob and attack innocent members of the public, who may wish to go about their Lawful duty.

Owoseni said: “Information reaching us revealed that some hoodlums are planning to hijack the peaceful protest. And as such, we won’t allow it to hold in Lagos. We know that Tuface do not have the capacity to contain such a crowd and we will not fold our hands and watch while things go out of hand.”

At a press conference held earlier in the week, Owoseni said: “The Civil Society had said that they do not need police permission to carry out any peaceful protest, but they should also be aware that there might be those who share an opposing view. This set of persons may want to disrupt the peaceful demonstration and would want to attack demonstrators.

“This is why we advise individuals or group of persons who may wish to embark on civil demonstration to inform the police so that adequate security arrangement would be provided.”

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Jealous lover slits boyfriend’s throat in Lagos [PHOTO]

Residents of Abukuru, Ajegunle area of Lagos State were Monday thrown into shock after a drink seller, identified only as Mary allegedly killed her lover, Pereowei Kingsley.

Mary was said to have accused her 38-year-old lover of dating another woman in the neighbourhood.

The Punch reports that the lovers had been dating for 13 years.

According to the report, Mary slit Kingsley's throat while he was sleeping on the bed today.

She reportedly left the Bayelsa State born in the pool of his blood and went into hiding, but the attention of residents was drawn to the scene after Kingsley screamed for help.

He unfortunately gave up the ghost before residents could rescue him.

Speaking on the incident, Kingsley’s elder sister, Linda Pereowei, said she was asleep around 3am on Monday when one Kingsley’s neighbors came to inform her about the incident.

Linda, who resides on Orodu Lane, Ajegunle said, “By the time I got there, my brother was dead.

“This is the 13th year that they have been dating each other. She cast a spell on my brother so that he would not be able to quit the relationship.

“No single child between them and they were not married. Sometime last year, she stabbed him in the head and eye. It took months before the wounds healed.

“She has achieved her aim. We are from Bayelsa State. Our father is late, but we still have an ageing mother. She has not been informed about his death.

“I want the police to ensure that she joins my brother in heaven. That is all I want,” she added.

Meanwhile residents called the attention of police operatives from the Ajeromi division who visited the scene.

They were said to have trailed Mary to her hideout and arrested her.

Confirming the incident, the state Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, SP Dolapo Badmos, said “The case has been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, SCIID, Yaba, for further investigation.

“A postmortem would be carried out on the corpse of the victim,” she added.

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