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At least 10.5 million children are out of school in Nigeria, the highest number in the world, according to the U.N. children's agency UNICEF. That is due to insecurity, including abductions and a ...
There is trafficking of children in Nigeria. Child labour is more common among children of illiterates. [6] On average, in the Southwestern zone of Nigeria, there is a higher work burden for working children. [6] Boys tend to earn more. [6] Girls' non-participation in schooling is more likely affected by parents' lack of interest than boys'. [6]
Twenty-nine children could be facing the death penalty in Nigeria after they were arraigned Friday for participating in a protest against the country’s record cost-of-living crisis. Four of them ...
At least 137 school children who were kidnapped by armed gunmen in Nigeria earlier this month have now been released, the governor of Nigeria’s Kaduna state Uba Sani confirmed in a TV interview ...
29 May – Nigeria readopts Nigeria, We Hail Thee, which was the country's national anthem from 1960 to 1978, as its national anthem, replacing Arise, O Compatriots. [20] 30 May – 2024 Aba killings: Eleven people, including five soldiers, are killed in an attack on a military checkpoint by unknown gunmen in Aba, Abia State. [21]
In 2001, the report A Taste of Slavery: How Your Chocolate May be Tainted won a George Polk Award.In it were claims that traffickers promised paid work, housing, and education to children who were forced to labour and undergo severe abuse, that some children were held forcibly on farms and worked up to 100 hours per week, and that attempted escapees were beaten.
Nigeria is a source, transit, and destination country for women and children subjected to trafficking in persons including forced labour and forced prostitution. [1] The U.S. State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons placed the country in "Tier 2 Watchlist" in 2017. [ 2 ]
In 2003, Nigeria adopted the Child Rights Act to domesticate the Convention on the Rights of the Child. [1] The Children's Rights Act of 2003 expands the human rights bestowed to citizens in Nigeria's 1999 constitution to children. [1] Although this law was passed at the Federal level, it is only effective if State assemblies also codify the ...