{"id":3327,"date":"2025-04-27T14:43:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T14:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/nigerias-miracle-baby-scammers-bbc-africa-eye-documentary\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T14:43:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T14:43:28","slug":"nigerias-miracle-baby-scammers-bbc-africa-eye-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/nigerias-miracle-baby-scammers-bbc-africa-eye-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&#8217;s Miracle Baby Scammers &#8211; BBC Africa Eye Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r62xSGw3kcI?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>#BBCAfricaEye goes undercover to expose the fertility scammers targeting Nigerian women and fuelling an underground trade in black market babies.<\/p>\n<p>Click here to subscribe to our channel \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd http:\/\/bit.ly\/subscribetoafrica<\/p>\n<p>Women with fertility issues in Nigeria are being tricked into parting with hundreds of dollars, duped into believing they\u2019re pregnant, and delivering babies that are often trafficked.<\/p>\n<p>Africa Eye&#8217;s undercover investigation exposes one of these scammers, who guarantees results but says delivery won\u2019t happen without payment for an expensive \u2018drug\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>This documentary investigates how these scammers prey on women so desperate for a baby that they choose to ignore the reality that is obvious to most. We speak to those who have fallen for this scam, and expose the link to baby trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>Yemisi Adegoke reports on the crippling stigma of infertility in Nigeria and uncovers the criminal networks who profit from it.<\/p>\n<p>***<br \/>\nAfrica Eye brings you original, investigative journalism revealing secrets and rooting out injustice in the world\u2019s most complex and exciting continent. Nothing stays hidden forever.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf9e\ufe0f Check out all Africa Eye investigations here: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLajyiGz4JeyO2qgCvioQO-BzP1XCajJqt<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa5 Watch this film in SWAHILI here: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=35nYuAfJ19Y<br \/>\nand in FRENCH here: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1txl28IhZew<\/p>\n<p>***<br \/>\nSubscribe: http:\/\/bit.ly\/subscribetoafrica<br \/>\nWebsite: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/africa<br \/>\nFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bbcnewsafrica\/<br \/>\nTwitter: https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/bbcafrica\/<br \/>\nInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcafrica\/<\/p>\n<p>#CrypticPregnancy #Nigeria #Documentary #Documentaries #Maternity #Motherhood #Parenting #IVF #Adoption #TTC #WomensRights #Health #BBC100Women #BBCAfrica #investigativejournalism #undercover<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r62xSGw3kcI\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#BBCAfricaEye goes undercover to expose the fertility scammers targeting Nigerian women and fuelling an underground trade in black market babies. Click here to subscribe to our channel \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd http:\/\/bit.ly\/subscribetoafrica Women with fertility issues in Nigeria are being tricked into parting with hundreds of dollars, duped into believing they\u2019re pregnant, and delivering babies that are often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3934168192,"featured_media":3328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1557,6592,434,6220,1321,1318,6586,6594,1317,1319,369,6039,1323,169,6602,6587,6588,772,6599,3340,6601,6600,6589,6596,6595,6590,6593,6603,6604,1565,1773,6591,6597,6598,6605],"class_list":["post-3327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie","tag-nigeria","tag-adoption","tag-africa","tag-africa-documentary","tag-africa-eye","tag-africa-news","tag-african-eye","tag-baby-loss","tag-bbc-africa","tag-bbc-africa-news","tag-bbc-documentary","tag-bbc-documentary-2024","tag-bbc-investigation","tag-bbc-news","tag-bbc-nigeria","tag-cryptic-pregnancy","tag-crypto-pregnancy","tag-documentaries","tag-documentary-2024","tag-documentary-bbc","tag-fake-pregnancy","tag-fake-pregnant","tag-fertility","tag-gynaecologist","tag-gynaecology","tag-infertility","tag-ivf","tag-maternity","tag-midwife","tag-nigeria-documentary","tag-pregnancy","tag-pregnant","tag-trying-to-conceive","tag-trying-to-get-pregnant","tag-ttc","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3934168192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3329,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327\/revisions\/3329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}