VIOLATION OF CHILD’S RIGHTS IN NIGERIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR CHILD HEALTH

As Nigeria confronts social health problems, children are faced with violence, early marriage, harmful health practices, and child trafficking. Child rights become the most isolated and marginalized concern of the policy. Violation of child rights is a social health problem already attracting global attention. Children have been severely to their survival. The paper focused on violation of child’s rights in Nigeria and its implication for health. The paper recognised that the Nigerian child has the right to be protected from all types of violence including physical, emotional, verbal, psychological, sexual, political, gang, domestic, racial, and self-destructive acts or behaviours such as drug abuse, smoking, alcohol among others. The paper examined some implications for child health like violence, child soldiers, child marriage, and demit birth of registration as well as specific rights such as birth right, right to a name, family right and right to a nationality. The paper concludes that child rights link with the responsibility of the government, family, and school among others; that will definitely enhance the development of this country Nigeria. It is recommended that government should provide long-term support that will promote, and protect the psycho-social well- being of children, develop their skill, knowledge and competence on a solid foundation. affected by the economic crisis faced by the country, which constitutes a threat