Child Rights Awareness Creation Organisation (CRACO)

07

Mar

Calabar: Man, Wife Arrested For Physically Assaulting Their 11 Months Old Son For Witchcraft

Joe CHILD ABUSE No Comments

By Archibong Jeremiah Men of the Nigeria Police, Ikot Nakanda Akpabuyo Local Government Area Division yesterday detained one Mr. and Mrs. Alvan Orji of phase 1, block 29, house No. 5 CROSPIL Estate Akpabuyo, Cross River State for physically and emotionally assaulting their 11 months old baby (name withheld) on several occasions over accusations that …

07

Mar

THIS 1-YEAR OLD CHILD HAS MOUTH TUMOR AND BEGS FOR YOUR HELP

Joe Right to life No Comments

KAJERO OMOWUNMI This little 1-year old girl – Kajero Omowunmi was brought to our office by her mother soliciting for financial assistance. She is suffering from mouth tumor (what medical report called Odontogenic tumor of the maxilla; Dentigerous cyst) which has made life miserable for her. Her Radiology Report is presented below. According …

01

Mar

SEE HOW POOR QUALITY OF EDUCATION IS IN SOME SCHOOLS IN NIGERIA

Joe Education No Comments

This is what is obtainable in most parts of Nigeria, particularly in northern part, at this modern age. Students studying on bare floor in a dilapidated class room, and another sitting on desks without a class room. Those sitting on bare floor are alleged to be SS1 students in a Government Secondary School located in Hardawa, Bauchi State. This …

01

Mar

THERE IS HOPE FOR BABY WITHOUT ARMS – Surgeon

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We had earlier reported of a baby born without arms, whose father ran away, and the mother begging the government to adopt him. An orthopaedic surgeon with the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Dr. Babajide Saheed, has said there is hope of artificial arms for the baby boy who was born without them at a private clinic in Ogun State. But …

01

Mar

RAISING BABIES INSIDE PRISONS

Joe CHILD UPBRINGING No Comments

BY ’TUNDE THOMAS, CHIOMA IGBOKWE AND PHILIP OJO How female inmates get pregnant in prison ■ Their deliveries ■ How kids live with their mothers inside cells Until that Saturday in January last year, Femi Adewuyi didn’t believe the story he had earlier been told of how pregnant women and nursing mothers live inside Nigerian prisons. …

28

Feb

Woman Gives Birth to Baby without Arms in Ogun, Husband Ran Away

Joe Right to life No Comments

Woman Gives Birth to Baby without Arms in Ogun, Husband Ran Away The arrival of a baby in every home heralds joy. But this was not the case for Mr. Mudashiru Sheriffdeen of Bosun Street, Ifo in the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State. The wife, Taiwo, was on Tuesday delivered of a baby boy who had no arms. The baby boy, our correspondent gathered, …

28

Feb

Motorcyclist rapes two-year-old, assaults pregnant aunt

Joe VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY No Comments

The police have arrested a 30-year-old motorcycle rider, Garuba Abdulraman, for allegedly defiling a two-year-old, Pat, (pseudonym) in the Somolu area of Lagos State. It was learnt that Abdulraman, an indigene of Niger State, also kicked the minor’s pregnant aunty, Alimat Muazu, when the later quizzed him on the child’s whereabouts. The incident …

28

Feb

Police Recover Baby Sold for N300,000 by His Father

Joe VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY No Comments

A 12-month-old baby boy, Chizoba Maduabuchi was sold by his father for N300,000. But fate was kind to the little boy. He was recovered from his buyer by the police in Abia State following the alarm raised by the mother of the baby, which prompted detectives to swing into action. The Abia State Commissioner of Police, Joshak Habila, paraded the suspected …

23

Feb

Okrika violence: Peterside promises scholarships for slain policeman’s children

Joe Education No Comments

Rivers State All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Dr. Dakuku Adol Peterside has assured that the four children of 33-year-old police corporal, Ifeanyi Okorie, who was shot dead in Okrika last Tuesday, will benefit from the government’s scholarships till they complete their education. The children, aged six, four, three and two and …

23

Feb

Safe Schools Initiative’s account rises to $4m as US transfers $2m

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The United States of America yesterday transferred $2 million donation to the Multi Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) of the Safe Schools Initiative, thus shooting the account to $4 million. The Safe School Initiative (SSI) is a project aimed at meeting the education needs of internally displaced children affected by the ongoing conflict in North …

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