Tag: Child Rights Act

In terms of other provisions of the law, we have not improved. For instance, till today, we still have cases ...

The Nigerian president launches a national action plan on violence against children.

It urged the Nigerian government to explicitly prohibit the practice in national health policies and strengthen the enforcement of existing ...

She highlighted the increasing prevalence of sexual assault, physical violence, emotional abuse, child trafficking, and online exploitation occurring in schools, ...

It said the decision was to ensure the stability of the colleges “for the smooth and peaceful academic environment.”

The bill seeks to create a new Section 14 Subsection 3 to provide punishment for abandoning children after birth.

The suspects have been remanded in a correctional services centre and are being interrogated, the police said.

The children rights group, therefore, called on relevant authorities to as a matter of urgency prioritise the safety of children ...

Nigeria adopted the Child Rights Act in 2003, to domesticate the international convention on the rights of a child.

The governor says he has achieved a lot in the promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms of the residents.

The agreement would also focus on interventions around gender-based violence, child rights as well as violence against persons.

The governor says the backlogs of funds domiciled in the UBEC account was a function of the inability of some ...

The amended Act was initially drafted in 2010 but was approved in 2021 for passage.

Nigerians have called for stiffer punishments for rape cases in Nigeria, with a rise in rape cases being recorded in ...

The cleric did not deny sleeping with the 16-year-old, but claimed he married her a day before the first 'rape ...

In Nigeria, thousands of children are marginalised due to the non-implementation of this crucial law.

The senate also mandated its Committee on Women Affairs and Judiciary to investigate the child labour trend in the country

The state vows to deal with parents who violate law.

The amendment seeks to guarante free basic primary and secondary education to every child in the country.

The group says education has collapsed at the grass-root.

"There's a long standing failure to protect women from gender-based violence”.

I expressed my concerns about the issue of pedophilia and child brides in Nigeria quite extensively in an essay I wrote last week titled ''A Nation Of ...

Last week Nigerians round the world witnessed the unfolding drama of the purported validation of child marriages by the Nigerian ...

Nigeria will on Monday, May 27 2013 mark with the usual make- belief and heavily contrived fanfare in governmental quarters, ...