Two unidentified fathers, purportedly from Jigawa State, have dumped their children at a Quranic School in Bauchi State and flee to an unknown destination. The children identified themselves as: Nura Shehu and Suede Suleiman, when they were found at about 10pm in the night along Maiduguri by-pass in Bauchi, sleeping near a culvert. Alhaji Dandada Ahmadu, …

Abdullahi Haruna, 50, has been arrested by the police command in Niger state for sodomy. According to reports, Haruna, who lives in Nasko community in the Magama Local Government Area of Niger State, sodomized seven underage boys in Getagi village. Haruna was said to have had regular sexual intercourse with the teenagers for a long time until he was …

A woman in Lagos has been arrested and will subsequently charged to court and arraigned on charges of child abuse and unlawful detention of her housemaid. The image of an 11-year-old housemaid, Precious Nwafor, locked up in the house by her boss who travelled to her village for the Yuletide, reignited the discourse on the increasing abuse of children …

The Lagos State Police Command has arraigned the founder of a non-governmental organisation, Girl Child Art Foundation, Mrs. Adaobi Onyejike-Ananaba, for allegedly inflicting injuries on her maid, Amaka (Ezewane) Ekpere. The 39-year-old was arraigned on one count of child abuse before an Ogba Chief Magistrate’s It was reported that Onyejike-Ananaba, …