Child Rights Awareness Creation Organisation (CRACO)

05

Sep

Homeless children overrun Calabar streets

Joe CHILD UPBRINGING, Day of charity No Comments

They call them ‘Skolombo boys’, which literally means, a dangerous and mindless gang constituted by destitute or street boys and girls that roam the streets freely. They are without father or mother and homes. These gangs of homeless street children, comprising mainly of teenagers, were obviously abandoned to fend for themselves by their unknown …

04

Sep

SUPREME COURT RULING – VICTORY FOR GENDER EQUALITY IN NIGERIA

Joe Right of women and girls No Comments

We cannot but rejoice with Igbo women who won the right to inherit a share of their parents’ estates following the recent Supreme Court ruling, which voided the centuries-old Igbo tradition that barred females from becoming beneficiaries of family estates, especially in their towns and villages. Ruling this Igbo custom as discriminatory and in conflict …

03

Sep

I RAPED MY DAUGHTER ONLY SIX TIMES – FATHER CONFESSES

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

A 34-year-old factory worker, Mohammed Ahmed, on Wednesday said he raped his daughter six times.Ahmed, who was paraded by officials of the Osun State Command of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps said he started having sex with his 14-year-old daughter ( name withheld) in April, 2015. Ahmed said: “I have two wives. The first had left and she …

15

Jul

Nurse kills 10-yr-old girl

Joe Right to life No Comments

Mrs Comfort Adeoye, popularly known as Iya Emman, is a house hold name in Momudu Street around Iyana-Ipaja and its environs in Lagos. Reason? She is a nurse by profession and owns a medicine store, where those who are sick normally go for medical attention because her charges are affordable compared to what obtains in well established hospitals. …

15

Jul

2 arrested with corpse of 2-yr-old girl in Aba

Joe Right to life No Comments

THE Abia State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Wednesday, arrested two men with the corpse of a two-year-old girl. The suspects were apprehended when they were trying to bury the corpse in an abandoned pit in Osisioma, near Aba. The middle-aged suspects are Jonathan Nwogu from Mgboko Umuola in Obingwa Local Government …

15

Jul

‘How my father beat me with barbed wire because of mum’

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

LAGOS—Operatives of Vigilante Group of Nigeria, VGN, Ebutte Metta chapter, have rescued a 12-year-old girl (names withheld), who was battered by her father in Lagos. It was gathered that the victim was found in critical condition at Oyingbo market, Ebute- Metta, following beatings she allegedly received from her father. A close family source said: …

15

Jul

Supreme Court Upholds Right of Female Child to Inherit Properties in Igboland

Joe Right of women and girls 19 Comments

The Supreme Court has voided the Igbo law and custom, which forbid a female from inheriting her late father’s estate, on the grounds that it is discriminatory and conflicts with the provision of the constitution. The court held that the practice conflicted with section 42(1)(a) and (2) of the 1999 Constitution. The judgment was on the appeal …

14

Jul

How my father beat me with barbed wire because of mum

Joe CHILD ABUSE, CORPORAL PUNISHMENT No Comments

LAGOS—Operatives of Vigilante Group of Nigeria, VGN, Ebutte Metta chapter, have rescued a 12-year-old girl (names withheld), who was battered by her father in Lagos. It was gathered that the victim was found in critical condition at Oyingbo market, Ebute- Metta, following beatings she allegedly received from her father. A close family source said: …

08

Jul

Child rapists on the loose: How Nigerian policemen aid paedophiles to escape justice

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

One cold afternoon, 11-year-old Bisi Adebola (not real name) was running errands for her mother in Ipaja area of Lagos, when a paedophile living just few metres away from their house, called the girl into his house and raped her. Shy and afraid, Bisi told her story, on the prompting of her mother, how the man, whom she referred to as ‘Alfa’, …

08

Jul

HOW A 13-YEAR OLD GIRLWAS DEFILED AND BATTERED BY A COUPLE

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

A couple, Mr Francis Onyeji and his wife, Chibuzor, are presently battling with the law over the assault and severe injuries inflicted on a 13-year old girl (names withheld) living with them as a ward in Ekpan, near Warri in Delta State. It was learnt that the woman, Mrs Chibuzor Onyeji, was arrested by the police at Ekpan over the weekend for allegedly …

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