Babies in the Rubble: Inside Lagos’ Growing Child Abandonment Crisis
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- Sanitation workers found a newborn abandoned in a carton beside a roadside drain in Ikeja, Lagos.
- The discovery highlights the child abandonment crisis described in the article.
On a rainy Tuesday morning in Ikeja, sanitation workers found a newborn tucked inside a carton beside a roadside drain.
The baby still had its umbilical cord attached and was wrapped in a thin cloth.
The discovery forms part of Vanguard’s coverage of Lagos’ growing child abandonment crisis.
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