Student Arrested For Abandoning Newborn In Nasarawa Bush

The Nasarawa State Police Command has arrested a final-year pupil of the College of Education, Akwanga, for allegedly abandoning her newborn babe successful a bush.

The baby, wrapped successful a portion of cloth, was discovered connected Wednesday adjacent a superior schoolhouse on AA Koto Street, Akwanga. Residents who recovered the babe live instantly raised the alarm and alerted the police.

Confirming the incidental connected Thursday successful Lafia, the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Ramhan Nansel, said the Commissioner of Police had ordered the lawsuit transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) for further action.

“The parent of the babe has been identified and arrested. The Commissioner of Police has ordered the transportation of the lawsuit to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Lafia, for thorough probe and prosecution,” Nansel told reporters.

The incidental sparked outrage among residents of Akwanga, galore of whom expressed daze and choler implicit the abandonment.

This is not the archetypal clip specified an incidental has been recorded successful Nigeria. In July 2025, a husbandman successful Kamba town, Dandi Local Government Area of Kebbi State, rescued a newborn babe miss who had been buried live connected his farmland.

The farmer, Kabiru Kamba, said helium noticed an antithetic ridge connected his workplace and called connected adjacent motorcyclists to assistance him dig. To their astonishment, they discovered a babe wrapped successful cloth and crying, inactive alive.

Kamba reported the incidental to information operatives, and the kid was aboriginal placed successful his custody by the Dandi Local Government Council. Out of compassion, helium and his wife, who had precocious fixed birth, took the babe successful and adjacent began plans for her naming ceremony.

The increasing cases of kid abandonment crossed the state person raised superior concerns among information agencies and communities, with calls for much proactive measures to code the underlying societal and economic issues.