Child Rights Awareness Creation Organisation (CRACO)

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Mar

TRAFFICKERS CAUGHT SMUGGLING NURSING MOTHER AND CHILDREN INTO NIGERIA

Joe CHILD TRAFFICKING No Comments

Four notorious suspected human traffickers have been caught by the Immigrations Service, Oyo State Command, while allegedly attempting to smuggle a nursing mother along with her two-year-old son, nine girls, and a boy. The suspects and their victims were apprehended at the Saki border, in Oke-Ogun area of Oyo State. The four men were accused of involvement …

21

Mar

HERBALIST PARADED BY POLICE FOR DEFILING 12-YEAR-OLD BOY

Joe CHILD ABUSE No Comments

Odinkemere Ogbuehi, a 75- year-old herbalist, from Abia State, has been paraded by the police for allegedly having carnal knowledge of a twelve-year-old boy “through the anus.” Commissioner of Police, JoshakHabila, who paraded the suspect in Umuahia on Friday with other suspected criminals, said that the incident occurred on March 8, 2015 . According …

20

Mar

Police arrest Abia director for death of 10-year-old maid

Joe VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY No Comments

The Director of Administration representing the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources in the Board of the Abia State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, Mr. Christian Onuoha, has been arrested by the police for the mysterious death of his 10-year-old housemaid. The victim, Anurika Ngwakwe, was allegedly found unconscious in Onuoha’s …

20

Mar

Husband colludes with wife, sells only child for N500,000

Joe VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY No Comments

The Nigerian Child Rights Law 2003 specifically prohibits the sale or procurement of a child but in the world 31-year-old Gideon Ani lives in, no such law exists. Ani, an unemployed indigene of Abia State, who is currently being quizzed by investigators at the Department of Criminal Investigation, Yaba, Lagos had just had his first child, a boy, from …

16

Mar

Is Female Genital Mutilation Happening In The U.S.?

Joe FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM) No Comments

Female genital mutilation is a harrowing procedure for girls and women. Parts of the genitalia are removed and the reasons for their extraction are 100 percent non-medical. Feminists and women’s rights activists have fought for decades against the act as it seen as a way of confiscating or deriving women of their human rights and sexual pleasure, …

16

Mar

FEMALE STUDENT GOES BLIND AFTER RECIEVING A SLAP FROM THE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL’S SECRETARY

Joe CORPORAL PUNISHMENT, VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY No Comments

Before January 29, 2015, this girl’s eyes was perfect. But the tide changed against Iyanu and it seems she has lost an eye. The event that led to the change in Iyanu’s life started when she was allegedly slapped by one Mrs Funke Fashina, said to be the secretary to the principal of the school. And what was her offence? The woman reportedly saw her …

16

Mar

“OUR PRINCIPAL FEEDS US WITH ROTTEN MEAT AND VEGETABLES.” FGC OHAFIA STUDENTS LAMENT

Joe Education, Right to life No Comments

Students of the Federal Government College, Ohafia, Abia, and their parents, have decried the way the new management of the institution is treating them. Hope Goodness Onyema, a student disclosed: “The Principal [Mr. D.I. Okengwo] feeds us with rotten meat and vegetables which he buys by himself, keep in his house and when it is about to spoil, …

16

Mar

Woman Sets Her Husband On Fire For Sexually Abusing Her 7 Year Old Daughter

Joe FOREIGN NEWS, VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY No Comments

Vincent Phillips, age given as 52, was doused with a flammable liquid, by this wife, whom then lit match and ignited him while he slept. Sounds serious, yes? Well, even more seriously, Vincent Phillips, the woman’s husband, is facing 1st-Degree Child Molestation charges for allegedly harming his 7-year-old step-daughter. The question is being raised, …

16

Mar

POLICE ARREST ALFA FOR RAPING TEENAGER, AND ASSAULTING HER MOTHER

Joe CHILD ABUSE No Comments

The police in Lagos State have arrested an Islamic cleric, Abdullahi Omobolaji, a.k.aAlfa, for allegedly having unlawful carnal knowledge of a 17-year-old teenager, Idowu (pseudonym), in the Agege area of the state. The incident happened on Bakare Lane where the victim lived with her mother and siblings. It was learnt that although Alfa lived in Abule …

15

Mar

Our Husbands Left Us After We Got VVF – Child Brides Cry Out

Joe CHILD MARRIAGE No Comments

The experiences of Vesico Vagina Fistula (VVF) patients are better imagined than experienced. In this report, ANKELI EMMANUEL, writes on women suffering from the condition, usually a result of prolonged labour. The plight of 18 year old Rabiatu Haruna from Rabbah local government area of Sokoto State can better be imagined than experienced. Though …

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