nigeria: Police recover abandoned baby, arrest mother in Abuja

The Police have recovered a day-old baby abandoned along a bush path near Crush Rock, behind an uncompleted Red Bricks Market in Mpape area of Abuja and also arrested the mother.

The abandoned baby was recovered on Friday, January 2025, at about 10:00 AM, Josehine Adeh, the spokesperson for the FCT Police Command said in a statement on Sunday.

According to her, Police operatives from Mpape Division’s Juvenile and Women Care Section (JWC) recovered the baby after they responded to a distress call and found the baby wrapped in a cloth.

She said the child was promptly rescued and taken to Mpape Primary Health Care Center, where medical evaluation confirmed the baby is in stable condition.

Adeh added that a tip off from the community led to the arrest of the baby’s mother identified as Khadija Ali who was subsequently arrested.