Lagos State Government has defended its ongoing enforcement against street begging. This is following public criticism by ...

Displaced children are turning to begging on the streets amid limited aid, often with their parents' permission, potentially ...

The Lagos state Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, has responded to the condemnation of reality ...

During a recent trip to Bauchi in northeast Nigeria, the scale of the danger before us as a nation, stared me in the face. The child beggars who have practically taken over the streets, north of ...

President Macky Sall announced last week that the children, known as talibe, must be taken off the streets immediately, and that those who force them to beg would be fined or imprisoned. Sweeping ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Chandigarh, Dec 29 (IANS) In a first-of-its-kind initiative in the country, Punjab has decided that if a child is found begging with an adult, a DNA test will be conducted to establish ...

As part of the ongoing crackdown against child begging under Project Jeevan Jyot 2.0, two child beggars were rescued during a ...

Children are sent or trafficked to beg for Islamic teachers, who beat them if they fail to bring in enough money, rights groups say DAKAR, July 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sweeping child beggars ...