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She thought she was leaving Nigeria to work at a mobile phone shop in Mali to save money for university. Instead Blessing was forced into prostitution at 16 before escaping with four other women three months later. "They said, 'There is no boutique or phone plaza, it's ashawo,'" she said, using the local Pidgin term for sex work. AFP met Blessing at a Lagos bus depot on her way back to reunite with her family in Cross River state in the southeast......

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