Child Rights Awareness Creation Organisation (CRACO)

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Oct

COUPLE ARRESTED IN OGUN STATE FOR ALLEGEDLY TRADING IN CHILDREN

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The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a couple living on Unity Road, Mosafote, Ibafo, for allegedly trading in children. The suspects were identified simply as Morenike and Shittu. Their neighbours became suspicious a few months ago when the woman would allegedly bring a child home in the evening and take the child away the following day. She was …

07

Oct

MAN KILLED 16-YEAR OLD BOY FOR RITUAL IN ANAMBRA STATE

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The Anambra State Police Command, has reportedly arrested a metal fabricator Ifeanyi Okpoko popularly known as Anagwanti, for reportedly abducting a 16-year-old boy identified as Chidera Ezeanya from a compound on Sunday, October 1, tying him on a hand-crane and reportedly killing him for ritual. The incident reportedly happened at Umunnaama, Eziowelle …

07

Oct

MAN ABANDONED WIFE AND FLEE AFTER SHE GAVE BIRTH TO TRIPLET

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It was gathered that 35-year-old Ukamaka, who was Nkwegu’s third wife, gave birth to the triplets – two boys and a girl – at a traditional maternity home in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, three weeks ago. It was gathered that the woman was forced to approach the traditional maternity home as opposed to going to the hospital as a result of …

29

Sep

40-YEAR-OLD MAN RAPED AND IMPREGNATED 15-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER OF HIS NEIGHBOUR

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A senior Katsina Magistrate’s court has remanded one Yahaya Idris, 40, in prison for allegedly raping and impregnating his neighbour’s 15-year-old daughter. Police said the victim’s father, Lawal Abubakar from Gawa village of Bindawa Local Government Area, reported the matter to the police on September 23, leading to the arrest and subsequent …

06

Sep

40-YEAR OLD MAN DEFILES A 3-YEAR OLD NURSERY PUPIL, GIVES HER BREAD AND A BOTTLE OF DRINK

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A case against a 40-year-old man, who allegedly raped a three-year-old nursery school pupil in Onaosa, in the Ibeju-Lekki area in Nigeria, has been filed in a Lagos State Magistrate’s Court. The accused, Kehinde Gabriel, approached the girl when she was going to a mosque with her sisters on 16 August, as reported by local newspaper The Punch. Gabriel, …

06

Sep

WICKED UNCLE BREAKS THE HEAD OF A TWO-YEAR OLD GIRL FOR BED-WETTING

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Chidinma Okasu, a two-year-old girl, escaped death by a whisker after an injury to her head reportedly affected her brain. According to Punch Metro, the injury, it was gathered, was inflicted by her uncle, one Seyi Shodiya, who allegedly tortured her for excreting on a bed. Not done, he reportedly threw her off the bed and the survivor hit her head …

28

Aug

PASTOR ARRESTED FOR USING 1-YEAR OLD GIRL FOR RITUAL

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The General Overseer and founder of the Royal God’s Commandment Ministry, Rev. Tony Obo, has been arrested for allegedly using a one-year-old girl, identified as Success Ime, for ritual. The freshly harvested heart of the girl was discovered at the church, 3, Okon Edak Street, off Atamunu, in Calabar South local government area of Cross River …

19

Aug

UNIPORT STUDENT CAUGHT WHILE DUMPING THE BODY OF A 7-YEAR OLD GIRL HE KILLED FOR MONEY RITUAL

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Luck has ran out on a desperate UNIPORT undergraduate who wanted to get rich fast after he was nabbed with the body of a little girl he murdered for money rituals. A 200-level student of the the Faculty of Science, University of Portharcout, Rivers State, identified as Ifeanyi Dike, has been arrested for allegedly killing a 7-year-old girl named Victory …

14

Aug

MAN DUMPS HIS FOUR CHILDREN IN LAGOS – LEAVING A NOTE IN THEIR HANDS, ASKING GOVT TO TAKE CARE OF THEM

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A Lagos based man has allegedly dropped off his 4 children for the government to take care of. The man was said to have taken the 4 boys to Agege local government “area A-maternity office” attached with a letter written in Yoruba language saying;”he would like that the government assist him to take care of his children as he isn’t …

03

Aug

WOMEN PROTEST RISING RAPE CASES IN LAGOS STATE: STORM GOVERNOR’S OFFICE

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Protesters have stormed the Lagos State governor’s office, Alausa, Ikeja, demanding an end to rape cases in the state and across the country. The protesters who were at the venue as early as 8:25 a.m., said the protest was meant to pass a message to the government on the need to end incidences of rape. The protesters, under the aegis of the Alliance …

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