Pygru: If the senate president/senate could do nothing to stop it, wetin make you think say Pej go fit do anything

dayokanu: How she wan take talk the English to do that?

H-I-P for the HIP for the HIPPOPO

hubbyknows4sure: Is this not the same people that said this woman should be in the kitchen and not talk. I thought soyinka said she is a mere domestic appendage. Now i know that people are just against this woman because she is from the south south. She talk wahala, she no talk wahala. Infact from today hence forth i declare my allegiance to Gej. Next now, is to take this bullshit to the frontpage from the moderators who love seeing PEJ being abused. GEJ till 2019!

warrior01: You're such a hypocrite. I thought your God Wole Soyinka said women are supposed to be mere domestic appendages; to be seen and never to be heard. You, Wole Soyinka and your cohorts are the real evil men of this society.

warrior01: You're such a hypocrite. I thought your God Wole Soyinka said women are supposed to be mere domestic appendages; to be seen and never to be heard. You, Wole Soyinka and your cohorts are the real evil men of this society.

dayokanu:

If you dont have enough brain cells to understand the English he wrote you can as well ask people to translate it for you

First Lady Seeks End To Teenage Pregnancies In Africa



The First Lady and President of African First Ladies Peace Mission, Dame Patience Jonathan, has canvassed for the reduction of teenage pregnancies across Africa. Dame Patience Jonathan stated this at the just concluded National Strategy seminar for the reduction of teenage pregnancies in Sierra Leone, with the theme, “Let Girls Be Girls, Not Mothers.”

In a press statement signed by the Media Adviser to the First Lady, Omoba Kenneth Aigbegbele, Patience Jonathan called for a synergy and partnership between the traditional institutions, religious leaders and opinion leaders on the essence of working together with civil society organisations and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs).

Delivering a keynote address on “The Roles of Traditional and Religious Leaders in the prevention of teenage pregnancies,” the First Lady noted that the role of traditional and religious leaders in supporting communities to prevent teenage pregnancy cannot be overemphasised.

She said that sustainable development can only be achieved in the fight against teenage pregnancies if our traditional leaders will return to the dignity and high moral values that had held our traditional communities together. Emphasising on the core roles of these leaders in uniting and developing the society, she encouraged them to take interest in the upbringing of teenage boys as well, but more especially, the girls in their domains; preparing both genders adequately for the responsibilities of adulthood.

She further stressed the need for town hall meetings for the continuous community sensitisation programmes about the dangers of teenage pregnancies, saying that educating the teenagers would prevent them from being misled.

Patience Jonathan appealed to both religious and traditional leaders to continually work with parents and civil society organisations as well as other relevant groups to create the necessary awareness in preventing this malaise that is destroying the future of female teenagers.

warrior01: You're such a hypocrite. I thought your God Wole Soyinka said women are supposed to be mere domestic appendages; to be seen and never to be heard. You, Wole Soyinka and your cohorts are the real evil men of this society.

eGuerrilla: Comrade Garri the 1st,

To be fair, I think madam first lady has what it takes to increase awareness about the scourge you highlighted alright.

Now whether she believes it is a worthy enough cause, given the allure of Riverine politics, is an entirely different matter.

https://www.nairaland.com/1303292/patience-seeks-end-teenage-pregnancies



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Sincere 9gerian: I wonder what you want the First Lady to say on this matter. The arguement put forward by those who voted to legalise under-age marriage was that it is anti-Islam to put the age of marriage at 18yrs. If the First Lady says anything now, they'll say she is FIGHTING Islam. This is a religious matter and it is too sensitive for the First Lady step into.

Garri the 1st:

Cowardly!!!

A true mother doesn't display such cowardice when the life, happiness and future of her kids are at stake. The right thing for her to do is to speak up, her silence is very loud and shameful!!

queenvic: Children should be allowed to be CHILDREN in this modern age! Its time a bold political representative spoke out for justice for the innocent ones. Doctors will tell you of the medical and psychological complications of young pregnancies.... Garri the 1st, Thank you for being a voice of reason ! justice and equality !

adino: Garri is a hypocryte and a fooolish one at that, P.E.J will do nothing about it, you people want to set her up abi. What of the loud mouthed falana, mouth running soyinka, hypocrite okey- ode odumakin and other ghana must go and black market activists. I am very sure remi tunubu and some acn were among those that refrained from voting.
We need the names of those foolish senators that abstained from voting, they are worse than those who voted the evil.

greatgod2012: Sincerely, it is disheartening seeing teenage girls being married away to an insane and wicked matured adult, old enough to be their grandfather, can they allow their own daughters to be married away like that at that tender age. This country is sick and im sincerely asking for God's healing power to heal all those senators who voted in support of teenage girl marriage.


Linking it to religion is even the most annoying thing. Let me stop here, lest i be boko haramed.

Omen100:




I am telling you, it is so annoying & pathetic. sometimes, even the big & adults, I mean the matured ladies lament, snivels & beg for mercies when been fuck3d, come to talk of a girl child of 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 & even 20years, please I am not trying to disrespect the Muslims or Islam as a religion but its practitioners needs to zip up their trousers.

Look at that lovely Princess below, is she not beautiful? now tell me, why will any grown man want to besmirch her on the ground that his religion permit or allows it, this is gross abuse against the Nigerian girl child & on this squabbled ground. I, Omen100 hereby propose a death sentence for any religious, opinion & traditional leaders who whack any Nigerian Girl Child