Tag: CHILD RIGHT ACT

Kano plans special courts for gender violence, child abuse

Aminu Imam
Kano Chief Justice

Kano Chief Justice, Dije Aboki, yesterday, hinted that the state is working towards creating a special court for the speedy dispensation of justice, as well as tackling the menace of gender-based violence and child rights abuse. In her remarks at the International Federation of Women Lawyers, FIDA, Nigeria: 2nd Quarter NEC, pre-convention meeting in Kano, with the theme: Ensuring Access To Justice For Indigent Women and Children in Nigeria, Justice Aboki, emphasised that a special court is needed to address the emerging challenges, which includes, gender violence, rape and child…

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FG asks States to immediately domesticate, implement Child Rights Act

Aminu Imam

The Federal Government has asked States still foot-dragging on the domestication of the Child Rights Act, (CRA), to immediately go about it in order to curtail the harmful practice of early marriage of the girl child. Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen, made the call on Friday in Abuja during the review of the National Strategy to End Child Marriage in Nigeria, organized by the Ford Foundation, in collaboration with the Development Research and Projects Centre, (DRPC), the National Coalition of Civil Society to End Child Marriage in Nigeria and…

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Two arrested for Int’l child pornography in Kano

Aminu Imam

Operatives of the Nigeria Police Interpol National Central Bureau, Abuja have arrested two suspects engaged in international child pornography. The suspects, who are based in Kano, were identified as Ibrahim Mu’azzam Mohammad Aminu and Mohammad Tahir Umar. Both men are accused of taking advantage of underage girls whom they sexually abuse, make video recordings of the act and share on an international social media WhatsApp group chat, known as Pervertidos, owned and managed by a Brazilian called Adriana. In a statement issued by the Police, the suspects were arrested following…

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Orphanages in North East seek support as cultural, religious factors hamper domestication of Child Rights Act

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

Operators of orphanage homes in some states of the North East say support from individuals and organisations is inadequate, just as the geo-political zone battles with security challenges. Respondents to a survey in Bauchi, Gombe, Adamawa, Borno, Yobe and neighbouring Jigawa states, say although the state governments have been doing their best, the enormity of the challenge calls for the contributions of all and sundry. The survey also indicated that the Child Rights Act is yet to be domesticated in almost all the states in the zone due largely to cultural…

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