Category Archives: CHILD RIGHTS

16
Jan

Over 60% of rape victims in Nigeria are children from 0-14 years

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This two-year-old girl allegedly rape by her neighbour, Mr. Kehinde Paul, in Lagos. There are several unreported cases like hers all over Nigeria A damning statistics have revealed that over 60 percent of rape victims in Nigeria are children between 0-14 years, while a further 15-20 percent survivors are boys. This was the disclosed at the 5th Network …
12
Jan

Wife of Reverend arrested for burning the skin of her house help with hot iron

Joe Igbwe CHILD ABUSE, CHILD RIGHTS, CHILD TRAFFICKING, VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY No Comments
The wife of a reverend in the Oko-Oba area of Lagos State, Mrs Olusola Adeleke, has been arrested by the police for allegedly burning the skin of her home help with a hot iron. The woman was arrested along with the reverend, Adebanjo, as the couple were alleged to have subjected the nine-year-old girl to series of physical abuse since she started living …
10
Jan

Woman arrested for stripping, beating and bathing little kids with pepper in Rivers state

Joe Igbwe CHILD ABUSE, CHILD RIGHTS, CORPORAL PUNISHMENT, VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY No Comments
The evil that men do! It might sound unbelievable but for kids to go through torturing of any kind is terrible. The Nigeria Police Force in Rivers State recently arrested a grandmother for allegedly stripping two hungry children naked, beating and bathing them with raw pepper. According to reports, the victims, who are her two grandchildren and about …
10
Jan

Four year old child fights for her life after lady banged her head on the floor

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A little girl has been left battling for her life after her head was allegedly banged on the floor.

The little girl who got paralyzed

A young child who was physically assaulted by a woman has been left fighting for her life at the Benue State University Teaching Hospital in Makurdi.

A  Facebook user, Ukan P Kurugh, shared the sad story.

He wrote:

“Could This Be Accident Or Wickedness? For demanding that she needed to take a break from her lesson, Erdoo Luper Amu, four years is now battling with life at the Benue State University Teaching Hospital (BSUTH) Makurdi.

Her helpless father, Luper Amu said he initially declined to honour the request to allow his daughter to live in Makurdi with Laadi Terhemba Amo, who is now the reason why his daughter is battling with life.

According to the father of the four-year old, his daughter incured the wrath of Mrs. Amo when she complained that she could no longer continue with “reading” and be allowed time to rest.

Angered(?) by the request, Mrs. Amo is said to have hit the little girl on her head, as she fall on the tiles floor of her living room. But Erdoo’s forearms and head, her body system from the waist to the hind limbs are not moving.

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08
Jan

See the faces of 9 Nigerian women who stole other women’s babies

Joe Igbwe CHILD ABUSE, CHILD RIGHTS, CHILD TRAFFICKING, VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY No Comments
What would a Nigerian woman do to have a baby? Apparently, a lot – Night Vigils, fasting, fervent prayers, a visit to the hospital for a medical check-up, consultation from herbalist and some allow the Devil to manipulate them into stealing children. The pressure to have children has forced some women to steal other women’s babies and pass the …
08
Jan

Child marriage and it’s Consequences

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In Nigeria and also in Africa generally, early child marriage is a norm that has been in practice for many years where a girl child is being given a hand in marriage at her early age, mostly before the age of 18. Regardless of the physical and emotional wellbeing of a girl child, many parents, however, have continually been giving out their young girls …
08
Jan

Paedophiles on Rage in Nigeria

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The discussion on the activities of the child molesters has been on center stage in literature over the years. Nigeria as an independent nation has her own share of this psychological disorder. The rampant nature of these child predators has been at the worrisome stage in the past decades. It should be noted that this menace has no boundaries- be it …
30
Dec

Woman arrested for maltreating step Children in Lagos

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  Lagos State Government has handed over a woman , Funmilayo Samson , to the police for allegedly maltreating her stepchildren on Ebuwawa Road in the Ikorodu area of the state . Officials of the Directorate for Citizens’ Rights had on Friday rescued the children and arrested Funmilayo after a post about her alleged maltreatment of the victims …