ON a rainy Tuesday morning in Ikeja, sanitation workers made a grim discovery. Tucked inside a carton by a roadside drain was a newborn, still with the umbilical cord attached and wrapped in a thin cloth.
***State records 1,437 child protection cases and 5,708 interventions
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By Olasunkanmi Akoni
ON a rainy Tuesday morning in Ikeja, sanitation workers made a grim discovery. Tucked inside a carton by a roadside drain was a newborn, still with the umbilical cord attached and wrapped in a thin cloth.
Three days later, in Alimosho, a fourmonth-old baby was found abandoned outside a church gate. In Ikorodu, another infant was rescued from a refuse dump.
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