Some of the homeless children in Calabar | credits: Mudiaga Affe They call them ‘Skolombo boys’, which literally means, a dangerous and mindless gang constituted by destitute or street boys and girls that roam the streets freely. They are without father or mother and homes. These gangs of homeless street children, comprising mainly of teenagers, …

Fourteen-year-old Jane (not real name) stared at her feet as she recounted her four-year ordeal in the hands of a neighbour, Felix Emmanuel, an Edo State indigene, who took advantage of her innocence. At 14, she explained that if she knew that the threats that had kept her quiet from disclosing what she was going through were mere lies, she would have …

The International Day for Street Children, 12th April, 2015 has been marked in Calabar by members of Prevent Abuse of Children Today, PACT with a 15km brisk walk from IBB Way by Akim passing through Mbora street into Marian road adjoining Rabanna roundabout entering IBB Way and terminating at the beginning of IBB Way by AKim. Addressing the participants …

A 44-year-old man from Masvingo in Zimbabwe forced his two daughters aged 14 and 16 years to engage in a sexual threesome with him after the death of their mother and one of the girls fell pregnant. The man (name withheld to protect the victims) told the girls he was raping them to get rid of bad luck that he alleged was plaguing the family. He stunned …