This article discusses funding for anti-trafficking efforts in Nigeria to date and its impact. Ultimately, it shows that certain areas are ‘favored’ for funding above others, e.g. prevention, prosecution and voluntary return of migrants, as opposed to promoting safe migration or effective victim re-integration, though the latter is the purported aim of the Protection Policy. The article also speaks to how the anti-trafficking ‘players’ have been obliged through aid dependency to focus on certain aspects of intervention and ignore others. Funding is provided in a ‘principal-agent’ relationship by donors to the government of Nigeria and other anti-trafficking organizations.