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Advertisement By Izunna Okafor, Awka It is no longer news that a group of villagers, with the instrumentality of two masquerades, on Sunday, April 30, banished a…

Three people identified as Lazarus Uzor, Anozie Uzor, and Valentine Okwuosa, have been dragged before the Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Magistrates’ Court in Awka, Anambra State capital. | Pulse Nigeria

The victim is a mother of two.

The Anambra State Ministry of Women and Social Welfare has caught another woman who physically assaulted, brutalised and battered a seven-year-old nephew for failing to recite the English alphabet (A,B,C,D…) in the State. SaharaReporters gathered that the victim, identified as Sunday, was taken to the office of the state women and social welfare commissioner, Ify Obinabo, on Tuesday by some residents of the state who saw him after he was brutalised by his guardian, Mrs Abigail Eguta.  

Advertisement By Izunna Okafor, Awka What could be better described as a discord has trailed the transfer of Idimmachukwu, the nine-year-old girl who was assaulted by her…

  The Anambra State Commissioner for Women and Social Welfare, Ify Obinabo, has condemned in the strongest term, the reported transfer of the nine-year-old girl, Idimmachukwu, who was assaulted and battered by her guardian, from the hospital where she was admitted in Awka, Anambra State capital to another hospital.   Idimmachukwu was transferred to a hospital in Asaba without the consent of the Anambra State Ministry of Women Affairs.  

The Anambra State Ministry of Women and Social Welfare, in collaboration with the state police command, has arrested one Chinyere Ifesinachi for allegedly torturing her house help, identified as Idinmachukwu, with pestle and cane.

The woman will be prosecuted after police investigation, according to an official.

The State’s Commissioner for Women and Social Welfare,  Ify Obinabo, told journalists in Awka on Saturday, that the 25-year-old Ifesinachi was arrested following a tip-off.

A group of women in Anambra State on Thursday staged a peaceful protest against the “barbaric” and “unwholesome” practice of forcing widows to drink the water used in washing the corpse of their late husbands.   The protesters made reference to incidents in Atani community in the Ogbaru Local Government Area of the state.