Child Rights Awareness Creation Organisation (CRACO)

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Nov

Police foil attempt to steal child in Abia

Joe CHILD TRAFFICKING No Comments

Police Officers attached to Umuoba Police Station in Isiala Ngwa LGA of Abia, on Monday foiled an attempt by two men to steal a child in Amaede, a village under the station’s jurisdiction. NAN learnt that the armed men entered the house of their victim to steal the boy, but met stiff opposition from his parents, which resulted in a scuffle. A source …

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Nov

CRACO 2016 CALENDAR PROMOTES CHILD’S RIGHT TO EDUCATION

Joe Education No Comments

CRACO Calendar for 2016 is out. Our Mission/focus in 2016 is the promotion of the Right of the Child to (not just education, but) quality education. CRACO 2016 Calendar promotes this mission. You can help promotes the child’s right to quality education in 2016 by getting a copy of our 2016 Calendar to spread the campaign. Visit our office at 12, …

22

Nov

Newborn Weight Loss – 6 Things You Need To Know

Joe CHILD UPBRINGING No Comments

It’s normal for babies to lose weight after birth. Conflicting opinions exist, however, with regards to up to what percentage of weight loss is normal and about when supplementation may be necessary. Here are 6 things you need to know about newborn weight loss and what is ‘normal’: #1: It’s Important Not To Compare Apples With Oranges When determining …

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Nov

Refusal to educate your child in Sokoto, now criminal offence –Tambuwal

Joe Education No Comments

Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State has said any parent in the state, who refuses to educate his children, will be liable to criminal offence, if a bill before the state House of Assembly is passed into law. The move, which is considered radical and revolutionary, is aimed at boosting school enrolment, and providing quality education to every child …

21

Nov

China ends one-child policy

Joe Right to life No Comments

China announced the end of its hugely controversial one-child policy on Thursday, after decades of strict, sometimes brutal enforcement left it with an ageing population and shrinking workforce that has heightened the challenges of slowing economic growth. All couples will be allowed two children, the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing a communique …

14

Nov

Australia convicts two Women over female genital mutilation

Joe FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM) No Comments

An Australian court has found two women guilty of carrying out female genital mutilation (FGM) on two young girls, in the country’s first such conviction. The incidents took place in separate incidents in 2009 and 2012 in Wollongong, New South Wales when the girls were each about seven years old. A man, Shabbir Mohammedbhai Vaziri, was found guilty …

14

Nov

Church pastor suspected of aggravated child rape, sexual battery

Joe CHILD ABUSE, FOREIGN NEWS No Comments

New Orleans police arrested an Algiers man, who is also a pastor at Second Highway Baptist Church in Marrero, for aggravated rape of a child under 13. Reverend Dr. Sherman Smith, 56, was booked into Orleans Parish Prison on Wednesday at 11:09 a.m. He faces charges of aggravated rape, sexual battery, molestation of a juvenile or person with a mental …

14

Nov

Pastor Caught For Raping A Teenage Girl In His Church

Joe VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY No Comments

The Police in Imo State have arrested the General Overseer of a popular Spiritual Church in Ikeduru council area of the state, for allegedly having constant illicit affair with a 13-year-old girl. The girl’s father, a widower, said the pastor severally raped his daughter between 2010 and 2013. According to him: “Between 2010 and 2013, I was sick …

14

Nov

24-yr-old woman arraigned in court for child trafficking

Joe CHILD TRAFFICKING No Comments

A 24-year-old woman, Ife Yusuf has been arraigned before a Federal High Court in Lagos for allegedly luring three girls into prostitution. Ife Yusuf was arrested and taken to court by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and other related matters after she arrested on December 20, 2012 in the Ketu area of Lagos “after …

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Nov

Baby stolen by doctor in Akwa Ibom recovered in Abuja by police

Joe CHILD TRAFFICKING No Comments

A baby boy who was stolen at just three-days-old, by a medical doctor with the connivance of his mother and later sold to a childless woman in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, has been recovered by the Akwa Ibom State Police Command after intensive investigations conducted by the Criminal Investigation Department of the command. According to a …

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