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Nigeria:
Police Raid Baby Factory, Rescue 19 Pregnant Teenagers
Leadership, 20 December 2013
The sustained efforts of the Abia State Police Command to rid the state of child trafficking, especially the sale of babies by charity homes, yielded some fruit yesterday when the… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Man Sells Own Baby to Fund Father's Funeral
This Day, 20 December 2013
The police in Abia State have arrested a 26-year-old man for selling his baby boy for N260, 000 in order to foot the burial expenses of his father. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Abia Govt Demolishes Hospital Used As 'Baby Factory'
This Day, 9 December 2013
Less than 48 hours after the Abia State Government inaugurated an inter-agency committee to tackle the problem of 'baby factory' in the state, a five-storey building in Aba housing… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Hospital or Baby Factory? Shock Over 16 Pregnant Teenagers Rescued By Police
Vanguard, 5 December 2013
RECENT developments in Imo State seem to suggest that commercial pregnancy has become the next big business with baby factories springing up surreptitiously in certain parts of the… Read more »
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Nigeria:
How Teenagers, Desperate Couples Fuel Baby Factories - Police
Vanguard, 1 December 2013
Baby factories where teens are kept and made to bear children for a token and the babies sold have become the order of the day. As shocking, immoral and unreligious as it may seem,… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Dismantling the Booming Babymaking Factories
Leadership, 28 November 2013
From the outside, it looks like every normal building in Imo state. Purportedly a pure water production facility, it sits on an expansive land and is walled round. With several… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Baby Factories - Imo Govt Revokes Licences of Motherless Babies Homes
Vanguard, 26 November 2013
Apparently worried by activities of owners of 'baby homes or factories,' in the society, the Imo State Government yesterday revoked the certificates of all motherless babies and… Read more »