According to the national contribution to the EMN Annual Report on Migration and Asylum 2019:

The Council of State, in its rejection of the applicant’s appeal, opined that only the women who managed to effectively escape the trafficking ring could be considered as belonging to the social group of Nigerian women from the State of Edo who were victims of a human trafficking network for sexual exploitation. With this decision, the Council of State limits this social group solely to the women who effectively managed to extricate themselves from the trafficking network and thus does not include those who merely attempted to leave the network. In so doing, the country’s highest administrative jurisdiction has reversed the Court’s jurisprudence (CNDA, GF 30 March 2017, N° 16015058) which held that women who had “taken steps” to extricate themselves belonged to this social group.