The issue has been brought to the barest minimum, but you know it is still a long way to go. The state governor is doing everything he can, even passing a bill in the legislature outlawing the archaic practice of branding children as witches.

In 2008 he signed a bill into law making it a criminal offence, punishable by up to 15 years in prison to label a child a witch. See Aljazeera report on that here.

There is a family court special set up for it in 2014. See details here.

It should be recalled that these practices was only observed in remote areas of Akwa Ibom States with mostly very Illiterate parents. But there has been tremendous improvements between 2008 (when the report you are writing about happened) and presently.