Nigeria, Jan. 28 -- The Executive Director of a civil society organisation, Street Mentors Network, Anita Michael, has said many Nigerians are unaware that emotional or psychological abuse of another person could be a criminal offence.

Street Mentors Network, headquartered in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, provides support to street children.

"There is little to zero understanding or awareness by the public of such things as emotional, verbal and psychological abuse," Ms Michael told PREMIUM TIMES in Uyo on Thursday.

She was commenting on the section of the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act 2015, which deals with emotional abuse.

The Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act, otherwise known as VAPP, is intended to check the increasi...