Nigeria, Jan. 4 -- Christy Gold, the leader of an International Human Trafficking network operating across the Middle Eastern countries with an operational base in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Dubai, has been arrested.

Also known as Uadiale Christiana Jacob, she is a senior member of an organised human trafficking syndicate notorious for the recruitment, trafficking and sexual exploitation of underage Nigerian girls in the UAE.

Ms Gold, who is also called Christy Evan Osagie, has been on the wanted list of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) for the past five years.

She was arrested and handed over to NAPTIP by Officers of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) on duty at the Nnamdi Azikwe In...