First meeting with high US official since 1957. Rice: "We did talk about learning from the lessons of the past...The United States doesn't have any permanent enemies." Did I just wake up in a parallel universe??

Abia State House of Assembly has entered into collaboration with the Child Rights Network (CHRIN), a Non-governmental Organization (NGO), with bias for children, for the purpose of enacting a law to extend maternity leave from three to six months.

Along with other major players in the chocolate industry, Nestle USA committed to ending child labor on cocoa farms by July 2005. But the child labor abuses on West African cocoa farms continues unabated. Send the message below to Nestle to demand

Since 1926, Bridgestone Firestone has operated a rubber plantation in Liberia where workers are expected to meet an unreasonably high daily production quota or their low wages are halved. As a result, workers have to bring their children to work.

Sex pests and perverts are on the increase in Kenya, operating under the veneer of a highly religious society and off the radar to security agents. They mimic the Western flesh culture and commerce with equal precision, but with modest profit. Courtesy of

A SEXUAL predator who groomed girls as young as 11 for sex was today starting a 14-year jail sentence behind bars.

Inter-country adoption system in the country has encouraged child abuse including abduction and trafficking of children, according to a report released by the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and Terre des Hommes (Tdh), an i

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AS free primary and secondary education takes-off in Akwa Ibom this month, various groups have lauded the government of Governor Godswill Akpabio for the gesture and have expressed hope that the move would bring succor to many families.

I am intrigued by the latest developments on the story of the 84-year-old Pa Bello Abubakar and his 86 wives, all living happily with him and their over 100 children in Abubakar's two-storey building in Masaba, Bida, Niger State.