Child Rights Awareness Creation Organisation (CRACO)

24

Sep

Notorious Isialangwa Child trafficker arrested

Joe Igbwe CHILD TRAFFICKING No Comments

Notorious child trafficker, Mrs. Mma Achumba, has finally been arrested in her hideout at Akwa Ibom State. Achumba, who owned an illegal maternity home at Umunkpeyi in Isialangwa South Local Government Area of Abia State that had been raided severally by security operatives, had evaded arrest for five years. While parading the suspect on Friday,the …

24

Sep

Father arrested for selling son in Abuja

Joe Igbwe CHILD TRAFFICKING No Comments

A 36-year-old man in Abuja, identified as Kevin, has been arrested by the Karmo Division of the FCT Police Command for allegedly selling his own child to a Port Harcourt, Rivers State based woman. According to the police, Kevin had deceived his girlfriend and mother of the child that he was taking the toddler to his sister but ended up selling the child. …

24

Sep

Woman kidnaps sister’s 3 kids, sells 2 for 600k

Joe Igbwe CHILD TRAFFICKING No Comments

A wicked young woman identified as Faith Nuhu, has been arrested after she kidnapped three of her elder sister’s children from their home in Kafanchan, Kaduna State, and took them to Owerri, Imo State, where she sold her two kids to one Evelyn Ojiaku who runs a maternity home for N600,000. Nuhu who was arrested by detectives from the Abuja Police …

24

Sep

Trado-medical practitioner, couple arrested over sale of two-week-old baby for N130,000

Joe Igbwe CHILD TRAFFICKING No Comments

LAGOS—A couple and a trado- medical practitioner have been arrested over alleged sale of a two-week and four-day- -old baby for N136,000, at Ipaja area of Lagos. The principal suspect, Mr Onolaja Olawale, a trado-medical practitioner, was alleged to have sold the baby to Mr and Mrs Dele Ayogbile, who have been barren for six years years, …

19

Sep

Oshiomhole’s Wife Visits IDP Camp In Edo, made generous donations

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Iara Oshiomhole, the wife of Edo state governor, has made a generous donation on behalf of the state government for the upkeep of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) at their camp in Uhogua near Benin City. Vanguard reports that Mrs Oshiomhole visited the camp on Friday, September 18. She donated the sum of N2 million and presented clothes, footwear, …

19

Sep

Mother Wakes Up From Coma After Hearing Her Baby Cries

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Shelly Cawley had lapsed into coma after giving birth to her first baby Rylan via emergent C-section. A blood clot broke during her operation and rendered the woman comatose for several hours. After various efforts to revive her, doctors were almost desperate until one of the nurse suggested reuniting mother with daughter. As soon as the little …

18

Sep

190,000 children die of diarrhoea yearly – Medical practitioner

Joe Igbwe Uncategorized No Comments

Dr Jude Oko, a member of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Abuja chapter, has said that no fewer than 190,000 children die of diarrhoea in Nigeria every year. Oko, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Wednesday, described the situation as regrettable, and emphasised the need for regular hand washing, which he said, …

18

Sep

Gov. Ugwuanyi of Enugu State inaugurates committee on child fostering, adoption

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Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State on Monday inaugurated a child fostering and adoption committee to clamp down on baby factories in the state. The 15-member committee is headed by the Archbishop of the Anglican Ecclesiastical Province, Enugu, Bishop Emmanuel Chukwuma. Members of the committee include the commissioners for gender and social development, …

15

Sep

President’s wife wants enforcement of law on rape

Joe Igbwe Right of women and girls No Comments

The Wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari, has urged government at all levels to enforce the law on rape, to protect women and children in the country. Aisha stated this when she received some staff of the Ministry of Women Affairs, UNICEF and National Population Commission, led by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Dr Ezekiel Oyemomi. The staff …

15

Sep

17-yr-old mother abandons day-old baby in the hospital in Abuja

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A 17-year-old girl who abandoned her one-day-old baby she just delivered in a private hospital in Galadima, a community in Bwari Area Council of Abuja, The Federal Capital Territory, has been apprehended by the police and handed over to the Social Welfare Department of the FCT Administration. The teenage mother, a resident of Dutse, according to reports, …

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