Child Rights Awareness Creation Organisation (CRACO) – 2015

09

Mar

How two dogs attacked me – Nine-year-old victim

Joe Igbwe Right to life No Comments

A nine – year-old boy, Moyinoluwa Banwo, has narrated how he was attacked by two dogs at the Greenland Estate in Ibafo, in the Obafemi Owode area of Ogun State. Moyinoluwa, a basic five pupil, was attacked by the dogs which injured him in the leg, chest and face on Tuesday, February 24, 2015. He was said to be playing with his friend, Ezekiel, when …

08

Mar

TODAY IS INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT IWD

Joe Igbwe Right of women and girls No Comments

Women are the real architects of society. CRACO Celebrates with all women around the world especially in Nigeria. We love you all. ABOUT INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY International Women’s Day has been observed since in the early 1900’s, a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth …

08

Mar

SS2 Student Stabbed To Death In Ibadan

Joe Igbwe VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY No Comments

Men of the Oyo State Police Command have commenced investigation into the killing of a student of Moslem Grammar School, Ibadan. The deceased student was allegedly stabbed to death with a knife on Friday during an argument with his fellow student. The murdered student, whose name was given as Toib Aresa, was said to be an SS2 student in the same school, …

07

Mar

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

Joe Igbwe 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 Igbwe 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 Igbwe 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

Joe Igbwe Right to life No Comments

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 Igbwe 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. …

Monthly Archives: March 2015