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    The Child Right Act 2003 and the Challenges in the Nigerian Society, any Hopes for the Nigeria Child?
    (Port Harcourt Journal of Business Law, 2021-04) Nwaechefu, Hilary
    The hue and cry of child abuse in Nigeria is an age-long phenomenon. The ugly trend has persisted for reasons not well addressed by successive governments. The Nigeria constitution 1999 and the Child Right Act 2003 recognised the right to dignity of the human person. The Child Right Act recognises the rights of a child to survival, care, love, education, dignity to the human person, etc. and these rights are enforceable against whoever tramples upon them. The primary objectives of this paper will, therefore, be to identify the rights of the child, identify whether these rights are often respected or abused by adult members of the society and make recommendations towards reducing the incidence of abuse to the barest minimum or stamp out the abuses completely. This paper approaches the concept of the rights of the child by reference to the law textbooks, Law reports, Internet sources, Newspaper publications, statute books and the Nigeria constitution. The findings in this paper are that Nigeria law enforcement agents are not committed to protecting and enforcing the rights of the Nigerian child. Many cases of abuse of the rights of the child are swept under the carpet and so it goes on in our society unnoticed, uninvestigated and unprosecuted. This paper brings to the bare a few cases and instances the Internet and the Nigeria newspapers have exposed child labour and other forms of abuses.