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The Legal Protection of Children Under Child's Right Act 2003 and Human Rights in Nigeria

The Child Rights Act (CRA) was in 2003 adopted and domesticated in Nigeria. This piece of legislation ushered in a new legal framework, which stated that every child has the right to life, survival, education and social development. Hence, the importance of children’s education in any given society is very essential to the social and economic development of that society particularly for its future attainment, advancement and development. To deny the child rights to education is to deny the nation its critical development economically, socially, politically and otherwise. The needs of a child r…