BY JONAH NWOKPOKU

Lagos—No fewer than 17 million children are vulnerable to all forms of danger in Nigeria, an orphanage, Societal Socialese, SOS, children village, has said.

Director of the village, B. Buraimoh, spoke when, Women in Petroleum, WIP, the female wing of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, visited the Isolo-based children village to make some donations.

WIP also called on government at all levels to create special funds for the less-privileged children.

Buraimoh, who was speaking after receiving the gifts, said: “We have children that we admit into the SOS village for long term care, and we care for them until they can stand on their own.”

National Chairperson of WIP, Ijeoma Dom-Nwachukwu, said: “Government at all levels should do what is necessary to alleviate the sufferings of these little ones that found themselves as orphans, not by their own making.”