Child abuse

The International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL) has announced the arrest of 95 suspects in a sweeping international crackdown on the production, distribution and commercialisation of child sexual abuse material, exposing the disturbing scale at which messaging applications and cryptocurrencies are being exploited to facilitate abuse across borders.

February 11, (THEWILL) - Though not popular and flamboyant as their Christian counterparts, some Islamic clerics in Nigeria can be as mean and manipulative as GOs, pastors, leaders of Pentecostal denominations. There have been cases of paedophiles luring and...

January 05, (THEWILL) - The Parents of the 4-year-old girl who last month got married to a 54-year-old man at Akeddei community in Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State and three others were on Thursday, handed a temporary...

December 28, (THEWILL) - The Kano State Police Command, has arrested nine suspects who specialise in Interstate trafficking, abduction, buying and selling of children. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Usaini Gumel, disclosed this while presenting the suspects to...

December 28, (THEWILL) - Scores of Child Rights Advocacy groups in Bayelsa State have kicked against the boxing day traditional marriage between a four-year-old girl and a 54-year-old man at Akeddei community in Sagbama Local Government Area of the...

August 21, (THEWILL) - British most prolific child-killer nurse, Lucy Letby, convicted of murder of seven babies and attempt to kill six more, has been sentenced to life imprisonment. Letby, 33, killed the newborns between 2015 and 2016, by overfeeding...

July 24, (THEWILL) - Operatives of the Bayelsa State Police Command have rescued two kids – a boy and a girl – abducted from Bayelsa in Abia and Enugu States. The Police Operatives, attached to the Gender Unit, State Criminal...

May 25, (THEWILL) - Ogun State Police Command has arrested a man, Babatunde Adeyemi, for allegedly defiling his own five-year-old biological daughter (name withheld). The suspect, 28, was arrested on May 22, 2023, following a complaint lodged at Ijebu Mushin...

January 18, (THEWILL) - United State pop star, Madonna Louise Ciccone, has been accused of trafficking children from Malawi and using them for social experiments. The award-winning singer has a soft spot for the African country and she even has...

January 09, (THEWILL) The Operatives of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Bayelsa State Command, rescued a 12-year-old boy, identified as Tobi Fred, from the Banigbe-Lokossa region of Cotonou, Benin Republic. During a patrol assignment at the Yenagoa Tollgate, the boy...