Category Archives: Right to life

15
Sep

YOUNG GIRL NAPPED AFTER DUMPING HER BABY IN THE BUSH

Joe Igbwe CHILD ABUSE, Right to life, VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY No Comments
A young girl was caught in Ofada area of Ogun state, after dumping one of her twin baby girls in a bush. The girl confessed to have traveled all the way from Ijero, Ekiti state, with the hope of locating the father of her girls but her search proved abortive. This prompted her to dumping the sick child in the bush. According to her, she met the children’s …
23
Jul

3-month old baby rescued after mother placed him under a trailer to be crushed

Joe Igbwe CHILD ABUSE, Right to life, VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY No Comments
A 90-day-old baby boy, whose mother allegedly wanted dead, was rescued from beneath a trailer where she put him so he could be crushed. Aisha Yau, who stays under the popular Kawo bridge in Kaduna, was said to have purposely kept the baby under a trailer’s wheel with the expectation that when the trailer moves, it will crush him. But the baby was …
14
Jul

WHY WE MUST END VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN

Joe Igbwe CHILD ABUSE, CHILD RIGHTS, CHILD UPBRINGING, CORPORAL PUNISHMENT, Right to life, VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY No Comments
Globally, it is estimated that up to 1 billion children aged 2-17 years are subject to physical, sexual or emotional violence each year. For many of them, violence leads to severe, lifelong health and mental health consequences. Exposure to violence at an early age can impair brain development and propel victims to engage in risk behaviours such as …
06
Jul

50 – YEAR STUDY PROVES SPANKING CHILDREN IS JUST AS BAD AS PHYSICAL ABUSE

Joe Igbwe CHILD ABUSE, CHILD RIGHTS, CHILD TRAFFICKING, CHILD UPBRINGING, CORPORAL PUNISHMENT, Creative Children, Education, FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM), FOREIGN NEWS, INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE GIRL CHILD, Right of women and girls, Right to life, Uncategorized, VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY, Violence against women and girls No Comments
  “I would never discipline my kids by hitting them, but I have no problem with spanking”. Have you ever heard or maybe even used that logic? Parents, caregivers and scientists alike have always debated whether it is right or wrong to use spanking as discipline. After 50 years of research, psychologists have confirmed that spanking children produces …
27
Jun

YOUNG MOTHER ARRESTED FOR THROWING HER 12-DAY OLD BABY INTO A PIT TOILET

Joe Igbwe CHILD ABUSE, CHILD RIGHTS, Right to life, VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY No Comments
A 21 year old young mother identified as Amudalat Taiwo has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command, for throwing her 12-day-old baby into a pit toilet in Ilaro, in the Yewa South Local Government Area of the state. The police said the suspect was arrested following a complaint from her landlord, Oshunshina Olawale. The state Police Public Relations …
20
Jun

MOTHER OF 3 BATH 10-YEAR OLD ORPHAN WITH HOT PEPPER

Joe Igbwe CHILD ABUSE, CHILD RIGHTS, Right to life, VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY No Comments
Mother of three, Mrs Ijeoma Eze-Ezirike has reportedly bathed her housemaid, a 10-year-old orphan, Onyinye Nwaogu, with hot pepper after beating her because she went with her madam’s children to the house of the children’s class teacher. According to eyewitness reports, the incidence took place at No. 1 Timileyin Avenue, Jikwoyi, Phase 1 Extension, …
06
Jun

COLLEGE STUDENT RAPED TO DEATH IN TARABA

Joe Igbwe Right to life, VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY, Violence against women and girls No Comments
A 300-level final year student of College of Nursing and Midwifery, Jalingo, Miss. Mercy Victor, on Tuesday, died of injuries she sustained following a gang-rape on her by suspected hoodlums on Sunday night. Police Public Relations Officer in the state, ASP. David Missal who confirmed the development on Tuesday said the matter was reported to the headquarters …
21
May

THE PLIGHT OF THE GIRL CHILD

Joe Igbwe CHILD ABUSE, CHILD RIGHTS, CHILD TRAFFICKING, Education, Right of women and girls, Right to life, VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY No Comments
THE utmost responsibility of every nation is to provide security for its citizens. Security means that everything is settled. Lives and properties are protected. The citizens do not live in fear. One of the problems bedeviling Nigeria today is the issue of insecurity. It is no longer news that nobody is safe in Nigeria today. Everybody lives in fear …
21
May

Tragic Tales Of Innocent Children Brutally Molested And Murdered By Their Own Guardians

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After the death of his parents, eight-year-old Friday Paul got temporary accommodation in his uncle’s home, pending when a permanent home would be found for him. But from the moment the orphan stepped into that apartment at 6, Anjolarin Street, Odogunyan, a community in Ikorodu, Lagos, life took a pathetic twist, as the boy daily suffered unimaginable …
19
May

DOCTORS SEPARATE CONJOINED TWINS IN YOLA

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A team of surgeons led by the Chief Medical Director of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Yola, Professor Auwal Abubakar, has successfully separated four-month-old conjoined female twins. Professor Auwal disclosed the development to journalists at a news conference in Yola yesterday. “We have a successful separation of conjoined female twins (Omphilopagus),”he …