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    Social-Demographic Analysis of Women Engaged In Informal Cross-Border Trade of Consumer Products: An Evidence of Badagry-Seme Border of Lagos State, Nigeria
    (International Journal of Management, Social Sciences, Peace and Conflict Studies, 2025) Ighodalo David Ehizojie; Akinlotan Raymond
    Border communities in Nigeria are found to be engaged in informal cross-border trade, especially smuggling activities. This menace of smuggling and other cross-border businesses particularly illegal female smugglers activities has been neglected. This is the gap that this research aims to fill. The study investigated social profiles, reasons for engagement, types of goods involved and the general experiences of women involved in this illegal business. Gender economic development was the anchored the theory for the study. The qualitative method of data collection was used to obtain information for the study. Specifically, in-depth interviews were conducted with 20 women involved in informal cross-border smuggling, selected through the snowball sampling method, and five community members were selected purposively. Findings revealed that the social demographic profiles of females involved in illegal cross border trading along Badagry-Seme border axis cut across all ages, religions, and ethnic groups. The findings further reveal that, the activities of the female cross border serve as a means of survival among the people who are out of organized jobs or work living in the communities around the Badagry axis. The study recommended that, since those actively involved in the illegal cross-border trade are females; who are low social strata of the society, there is need for empowerment and public enlightenment to direct the energy of these vulnerable women’s work practices.