Child Rights Awareness Creation Organisation (CRACO)

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Jun

Lekki British International School : 11-Yr-Old alleged poison victim reportedly quits school

Joe Education, Right to life No Comments

An 11-year-old female pupil, who escaped being killed by her 12-year-old classmate, have been reportedly withdrawn from the Lekki British International School, Lekki, Lagos State. Punch reported that the parents withdrew the girl from the school over the alleged indifference of the management to the incident that almost claimed her life. It was also …

29

Jun

12-year- old boy attempted killing his classmate for overtaking him in Class

Joe Education, Right to life No Comments

A Junior Secondary School pupil I of the Lekki British International School, Lekki, Lagos was supposedly expelled for putting sulphuric acid and ethanol in the water bottle of his classmate. It was gathered that the 12-year-old was envious of the 11-year-old female classmate, who had beaten him to the first position in the first and second terms. The …

29

Jun

VICE PRINCIPAL BAGS LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR RAPING A 12-YEAR-OLD GIRL

Joe CHILD ABUSE, VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY No Comments

An Ekiti State High Court, sitting in Ado Ekiti, has sentenced a former Vice Principal of St. Mary’s Girls Grammar School, Ikole-Ekiti, Taiwo Ajayi, to life in jail for raping a 12-year-old student (name withheld) of the school. The court found Ajayi guilty of raping a minor contrary to Section 31(2) of the Child Rights Law of Ekiti State 2012. The …

28

Jun

“I WANT TO SEE MY FATHER” – A 10-year-old boy cries out after being consistently mocked by his class mates

Joe CHILD RIGHTS No Comments

A 10-year-old Nigerian boy identified as Isaac Oghenekewe has gone into a state of depression that has made him to break down after being taunted to be fatherlss by his school mates. The 10-year-old boy and his father The primary four pupil of Best Brains Nursery and Primary School in Ede, Osun state has been mocked several times by his class mates …

27

Jun

A 10-year-old Boy Exchanged for Three Bags of Rice in Lagos

Joe CHILD ABUSE No Comments

An unidentified middle-aged man abducted a 10-year-old boy, who was on an errand for his mother, and exchanged him for three bags of rice in Ijegun area of Lagos. The suspect, now on the run, reportedly accosted the victim (names withheld), weekend, at Prince Bus Stop, Isheri Oshun, while on the errand for his mother. He was said to have introduced …

26

Jun

STUDENTS ATTEND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEARNING/ACTIVITY IN CRACO

Joe CHILD UPBRINGING, Education No Comments

Forty Students from Chrisland High School on the 24th day of June, 2017 participated in community service learning/activity in Child Rights Awareness Creation Organisation (CRACO). The exercise is to equip young people with humanitarian spirit so as to be better citizens who care for others. According to the President/Executive Director of CRACO, Barr. …

26

Jun

Policewoman bathes 15-year-old housemaid with hot soup, water

Joe VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY No Comments

A 15 year-old housemaid, Chinyere Igwe, is in excruciating pains after her policewoman mistress, Mrs. Okochi Joy Ugo, poured hot melon soup and boiling water on her body at Mile 50, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State. Mrs. Okochi, who delivered a set of twins two weeks ago through a cesarean section, bathed Chinyere Igwe with hot soup and poured hot water on her …

23

Jun

‘Why I bought 10-month-old baby for N650,000’

Joe CHILD TRAFFICKING No Comments

Owerri—A widow, Ogechi Chukwuocha, has said the desire for a male child made her buy a 10-month-old baby for N650,000 in Imo State, because “my husband is dead and I do not have a male child. I do not know that the child was stolen.” Among those paraded with Chukwuocha, during the handing over of the child to the parents, Mrs Udoka Peter, at the …

19

Jun

MAN DROVE AN EIGHT INCHES NAIL INTO THE SKULL OF AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD BOY

Joe VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY No Comments

Doctors at a private hospital in Odogunyan, Ikorodu, Lagos, are battling to save the life of an orphan, Friday Paul, whose uncle/guardian drove a three-inch nail into his head for stealing N500. The eight-year-old Friday lives with his uncle and his immediate family in a room apartment at 6, Anjolarin Street, Odogunyan, Ikorodu, after the death of his …

17

Jun

Army nabs suspected traffickers travelling with 19 children

Joe CHILD TRAFFICKING No Comments

The Nigerian army on Saturday said that it has intercepted four child traffickers with 19 under-aged children in Yobe. Sani Usman, army spokesman, confirmed this in a statement. He said the four traffickers, who were arrested by of troops of Bravo Company, 120 Battalion at Katarko, were conveying the 19 children from Potiskum to Garin Tuwo, Bungai and …

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