ShyM-X:
Now this is getting interesting...

Coogar is winning by a land slide, tho.

*Grabs Popcorn*

Too late. Show's over. Maybe next time... Start an interesting post and maybe, just maybe, I will grace it with my wit!

coogar:

i will leave that information as your assignment. scour my previous posts or use the search engine and maybe you might find the information about my school. all i can say is my school has produced more nobel-prize winners than the number of science lecturers in ottawa university.....

Lecturers? I'm sorry in my school we referred to them as 'Professors'. You know why? Well, it was required to have a Doctorate to teach in my school (and every single person who taught in the Engineering department was a professor). Um, was there any such requirement in your school? Oops, I guess not, anyone, could come in, teach and call themselves a "lecturer" - qualifications not necessary. That would explain your illiteracy.

Well, I'm off to the gym now. In addition to being smart, I choose to stay fit, healthy, cute. You know... Double threat (Beauty and Brains)! You should try to get some exercise too. Get off the computer, go swimming, go for a run it's a beautiful day, play some tennis, it keeps the brain sharp! Lol. Again and hopefully for the last time... BYE!

coogar:

you were busy mirroring nonsense cos your cancer analogy falls flat on it's face.



you must have skipped logic classes in school. if you cannot discern between occurrence and cure after tertiary education then it's fair to say the money invested in your education was actually a waste!

VVF does not exist in any developed country because of their superior health care. so i am not talking about cure in the developed countries, i am talking about superior health care that actually prevents VVF from happening through quality antenatal and postnatal care even though developed countries also have high rates of teenage pregnancy.

cancer still exists in the developed world in terms of it's high occurrence and treatment. so tell me how your cancer analogy fits into VVF scourge? like i said, you have to be at your sharpest to debate here, this is not ottawa where you bagged a degree from a 3rd-tier institution. how many nobel-prize winners has your school produced?



stop lying, this is what you said...and this bit was what i replied to...


you really need to learn to be more articulate. your verbiage sucks and if you really think what you attempted was sarcasm then may heaven help you....



weak sarcasms are meaningless.....if you don't give a flying fück about my insults, why mention it in your reply? you either ignore the insults overall or give it back to me in equal measure, you two-faced hypocritical twit.




don't even bother..... with your below average intelligence, you wouldn't be able to afford where i learnt to put dorks like yourself in their place. half the cube-root of my IQ is beyond you so find someone else in your lower echelon to discuss your 3rd tier degree in computer systems with?

You seemed remotely intelligent when we first started. It's interesting how my ability to counter, breakdown and completely obliterate your argument with a superior, well articulated one supported by facts and figures has reduced you to an insult hurling bumbling id1ot void of any facts/research/studies to support your ignorant claims. Lol. This has been very entertaining. I'd love to stick around but I have to go and interact with educated people now... and by 'educated' I mean people who went to real schools. You know? Schools that are actually rated. Have you been inside one before? Funny how you skillfully avoided telling me what school you went to? Was it University of the bush? Because that would explain why you can't read a graph. Lol.

I bet you wish my parents would have married me off as a child because then I wouldn't have been informed or educated enough to school your a$s! In any case, My work here is done. Have a nice life. Till next time... arrivederci!

coogar:

you have the brain capacity of a pubic louse. you carelessly made an obtuse statement that cancer is a disease of the poor - which means one must be poor to contract cancer.

i called you out on it and showed you a chart that more people in the developed world have cancer than the impoverished west africa and you are spewing megede-fegede.

I said:

bgirl:
More people die of cancer in impoverished countries than in developed countries. Does that mean that cancer is a disease of poverty??

How does this even remotely imply that cancer is a disease of the poor? Absolutely not! Cancer is not a disease of the poor.

I was simply mirroring your argument in order to show the flaw in it. According to you:

More kids have VVF in impoverished countries than in developed countries therefore (according to you) it is a "disease of the poor".

If you believe this then could also deduce that:

Since cancer mortality rates are higher in impoverished countries than in developed countries, it is a disease of poverty. That would of course be wrong. My point? Just because poor people are more affected (by VVF or Cancer or Malaria... etc) doesn't mean that it is caused by poverty. It simply means they are unable to afford the treatment. I don't know if this clarifies things for you but quite frankly, I am tired of spoon feeding you.

coogar:
you started the insults - if you can't take it, don't dish it!

When did I imply that I couldn't take it? I feel like I always have to spell things out to you in order for you to understand. Ok. Here we go again. This is what I said:

bgirl:
Calling me a "disgrace" really hurts my feelings because you know your opinion means the world to me. (Just to be clear, that is a little thing called sarcasm)

Now when addressing people who are smart, you typically do not have to tell them that you are being sarcastic. They are generally able to infer from your tone that you are in fact being sarcastic. In my case, I clearly stated that I was being sarcastic just incase you were too dumb to infer the obvious but you still were unable to see the sarcasm in my statement. So let me be blunt: You can attempt to insult me from now till next year, I don't give a flying f&%k! Your opinion means zilch to me. Do you get it now?

coogar:

the money spent on your education should have been invested in trojan condoms to prevent your conception in the first place, bloody dullard!!!!

Oh well. B. Eng, computer systems, University of Ottawa (2011). Co-op program. Dean's honor list 2008, 2010. I'm pretty certain the money spent on my education was an investment.
By the way, please tell me where you learnt to read charts/graphs so I'll be sure NOT to send my kids there!

nagoma:

Here them southerners talking about crime - the profession of a major southern tribe . In any case half of your women are prostiitutes and they statart from childhood.

Is this a fact? Is there any study to support this? No? 'Didn't think so.

coogar:

you are such a disgrace to formal education - the chart simply shows there are more incidents and more deaths in western europe than in west africa in spite of the lack of medical facilities in west africa to combat cancer.....

was it not you that was drawing this analogy with VVF saying the cure is irrelevant but the root cause? so if more people cop cancer in western europe and more people die in western europe, how the heck is cancer the disease of the poor?

you lack cognitive reasoning, get out of my face before i piss in your nostrils.....

You are still talking? You cannot read a chart and you are still speaking? You are not ashamed? I showed my 14 year old sister the chart and she immediately got it. She also said: "but why are you arguing with someone who cannot read a chart"? I think I'll take her advise. GOODBYE!

coogar:

the cause is poor hygiene, lack of quality healthcare before, during and after the birth. it's not like there's no teenage pregnancy in america too, you already saw the charts but the quality care has now made VVF a thing of the past.




are you an illiterate? where did you pluck the figures you are quoting? lolololol. can you not see western europe have a far more mortality rate than western africa? if you are suffering from the pink eye, please get help instead of plucking statistics from your rectum!

I am sorry, I have to draw the line somewhere. The fact that you cannot read the chart that you are referencing is scary to me. I am tearing my hair out right now. Coogar, please, please, seat down with someone who took basic math. Look at the chart again. Please note that there is a difference between mortality and mortality rate. Mortality is the number of people who died. Mortality rate it the number of people who died divided by the number of incidents. I can't teach you how to read a damn chart and I sure as hell will not have an argument with an adult who cannot read a chart!!! I give up!

coogar:

you are a consummate rëtard!
honestly, it's fair to say the money spent on your education should have been used to produce cocoa. VVF is a poverty disease, it has nothing to do with the underdeveloped bodies of female children....

HISTORY OF VVF IN AMERICA


america leads the charts of teenage pregnancy in the developed world and they have managed to put the occurrence of VVF behind them through quality medical care - it then means the lack of primary health care, illiteracy and acute poverty are the reasons children are copping VVF in nigeria. the fault is with the health ministry.....

You are proving my point hun.
Let me try again. That is like saying that since poor people in Nigeria are more likely to die of malaria than rich people, Malaria is a poor peoples disease. No, Malaria is not caused by poverty, it is caused by exposure to mosquitoes. All you are telling me is that America has a cure. My question to you? What is the cause??

coogar:
another heap of asinine comments coming out of your mouth. who told you people in impoverished countries die more of cancer than the developed world? you illiterates just throw conjectures in the air without facts and figures backing your vacuous comments...



as you can see yet again, there's more incidence of cancer and a higher cancer mortality rate in the developed countries than the impoverished ones. you might want to start checking your facts before spewing balderdash on a public forum.

Did you pay attention in Algebra?
Lets take a look at YOUR OWN Chart:
Middle Africa:
Incident=100, Mortality=80: Mortality rate: 80%

Northern Africa:
Incident=110, Mortality=120: Mortality rate= 92%

Western Africa:
Incident=90, Mortality=80, Mortality rate= 89%

North America:
Incident=350, Mortality=80, Mortality rate= 22.9%

New Zealand:
Incident=360, Mortality=80, Mortality rate= 22.2%

You always look at percentages because of variations like: Population, reported cases etc. Basically, if County A has 360 cases with a population of 200 million and County B has 50 cases with a population of 100 million. Someone who didn't pay attention in algebra would say County A is more affected when in reality based on percentages, County B is. Capisce?

coogar:
hahahaha, see pot calling kettle black. who the hell cares if you are disgusted that muslim parents give out their underaged daughters for marriage? what's the significance of your opinion on this matter in the grand scheme of things?

you are a disgrace to the community that sponsored your education. the concept of gay marriage violates the church and it violates billions of christians all over the world. whatever repulses me also violates the fundamental beliefs of my faith! you are so idiotic to be playing with words and thinking you are making sense...

There is a significant difference between violating and repulsing. I guess the fact that I find beans repulsive means that people eating beans in front of me are violating my rights! I always find that people who cannot make their point with facts resort to insults. Calling me a "disgrace" really hurts my feelings because you know, the fact that you said it makes it true and your opinion means the world to me. (Just to be clear, that is a little thing called sarcasm)

coogar:
marriage does not put anyone in a physical/physiological harm. that is in your knucklehead. you do not know better than the parents of the child being married. mind your damn business, you 2-faced hypocrite. if you check your house in nigeria today, there's an underage girl working as housemaid in your parent's house!

Yes, I know better than the parents. Lots of parents who give out children as child brides are ignorant of the facts. Giving birth to a child doesn't automatically make the mother informed about how best to care for her child neither does it guarantee that she is a fit parent. This is especially why this practice occurs primarily among impoverished and uneducated people.

coogar:
your propensity to stretch the borders of daftness is exemplary - it seems pissing in the wind is your favourite hobby. religion has a big role to play in what islamic parents do their female wards. efforts should be made to make their lives easier, not impose a draconic law that violates the tenets of islam!

there are several ways the government can work around this issue. for instance, a clause can be put in place that any child below 18 can marry but not allowed to have intercourse till 18 or not allowed to leave her parent's place until she's had some education.....the law is meant to make people's lives easier, not to oppress them!

Yes, that is fine. I am simply against physical/sexu al violation (not repulsion, see the difference?) of children. If they are not going to have sex with them until they are 18 and there is a way to guarantee that, I'm fine with it.

coogar:


you are still pissing in the wind....pregnancy is the leading cause of death worldwide for women ages 15-19 in impoverished countries. it is only when there are no adequate medical facilities you would have teenagers dying from giving births. you need to be at your sharpest when debating with me...



as you can see for yourself, USA/UK have the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in the developed nations. how come we don't get to hear about the dangers posed by underdeveloped reproductive organs of their female kids that are having babies? why isn't there a scourge of VVF in the USA with the obscene amount of their under-aged
girls having babies?

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Oh my goodness. Can any one be so hard headed?
Impoverished countries where we have the same medical facilities for both underage and mature mothers (meaning all things are equal), the mortality rate of underage mums is 500% higher than adult mums. What in the good lords name does that tell you? Basic integrated science: Take a control environment, a test environment, make a hypothesis, draw a conclusion. Good Lord!

Environment one: Death rate of Adult mothers in impoverished nations: x
Environment two: Death rate of Underage mothers in impoverished nations: 5x.
Conclusion: Underage mothers in impoverished nations are 5 times more at risk than adult mothers.

Is Nigeria an impoverished nation? Yes. Therefore underage mothers in Nigeria are 5 times more at risk of dying during child birth than adult mothers. What are you arguing about??

More people in impoverished countries die of cancer than people in developed countries. Does that mean that cancer is caused by poverty??

coogar:

then you are an illiterate if you think my repulsiveness is irrelevant. why then do nüdists get arrested for indecent exposure when they bare it all in public? shouldn't members of the public just walk away like you claimed since the nüdist is just doing his own thing? some of you people need to get out of your cocoon and learn the ropes!

You are a complete slowpoke if you think people should rearrange their lives to suit your every whimp. Who in the hell cares what repulses you or not? Indecent exposure is a sexx crime. It is not illegal because it repulses people, it is illegal because it VIOLATES people. Please DO NOT come at me with weak arguments. You may get away with it with other people but NOT WITH ME!

coogar:
i hope you are aware these children were married off with the blessings of their parents. just like your parents chose your name, drew tribal marks on your face, chose the school you went to, told you the religion to practise and blah blah blah. were your rights not trampled upon or which of these decisions did you make for yourself as a child?

None of my parents decisions put me at risk of physical or psychological harm.

coogar:
every religion abhors the killing of another human being. child marriage is not murder. you are really grasping at straws drawing a parallel between the two. this is a practise that has been going on for aeons - you just don't change it overnight for the people who don't know better.

It was a hypothetical to illustrate the point that when there is a conflict between exercising your rights and trampling on someone else's, you have to give up yours. Simple enough?

nagoma:

You southerners should fight prostiitution and sexual slavery as at least 50 % of your women are either protiitutes or retired prostiitutes. You ignore your own decadence and immorality - that is my problem with you.

Immorality is not a crime. Child abuse on the other hand, is.

babylolaroy:
true, at 6 or even 8, i ddnt know what sex was and i suppose few kids would know. now at 16, wu says gals dont wanna try it? maybe yu ddnt and i ddnt either buh doesnt mean some kids ddnt. am not asking yu to believe that kids do all of those to themselves buh yu will agree with me that, that is the writer's opinion which you are not compelled to 'buy'. And miss, its not enough ground for you to insult me. i simply stated my view and you told me to go enrol in a school. thats nt fair. i know i shouldnt abbreviate but you should see that i know my spellings right and even if i dont, its not a shame. i know this matter hurts you but do not let it get to you so much that you start insults...

Lola, listen to your "view"

babylolaroy:
its enuf dah his grandma survived it....any one wu ddnt survive was meant to die niyen...ds stuff is goodnews ma...prostitution will reduce, abortion wll get out...it doesnt av to be force, d gal will gv consent and consummation will waif till shez fully mature. wat part of ds is hard to believ?

You are saying that these children who died while giving birth were "meant to die"?? That is you are saying that it is okay to take a child, impregnate her, then when she dies in child birth you open your mouth and say that "anyone who didn't survive was meant to die"!!! Are you okay? And you are offended because I told you to go to school? You don't think your blatant disregard for the lives of these child victims is offensive to me and many others? You are the one who owes me an apology.

coogar:

it then begs the question - why is there little or no occurrence of VVF in the middle east where child marriages is a norm. the UK have one of the worst rates of teenage pregnancy on the planet. i am yet to hear of this VVF epidermic in my neck of the woods. i don't need to be a rocket scientist to know that poverty is the root cause of VVF and not what you explained above....

Stop fabricating statistics. Is there a study that supports these your claims? If so, kindly refer me to it. See below a study from the international center for research on women. According to their study, children under 15 are FIVE times more likely to die in childbirth than women in their 20's. Their research also shows that Pregnancy is the leading cause of death worldwide for women ages 15 to 19. These are FACTS.
http://www.icrw.org/child-marriage-facts-and-figures

coogar:

we were told to stand back and mind our business when the west adopted gay marriage in our churches even though the practise is extremely repulsive to me. i was told it's not my damn business what people choose as their sëxual preference. by the same token, it's not my damn business who some parents decide to marry their 7-year-old daughter to. their child, their lives, their prerogative!!!

Oh Lord. Listen carefully, let me explain the difference. When 2 gay people get married, whose rights are trampled upon? No one! (the fact that it repulses you is irrelevant, that is not an invasion of your rights, all you need to do is walk away) When a child is sold off into marriage, does it trample on anyone's rights? Yes, the child's! The point is that everyone has a right to exercise their rights as far as it doesn't trample on the rights of others. If a muslim said that their religion preaches the killing of infidels, will you say that they should not be prevented from exercising their rights? Despite the fact that it tramples on the rights of the 'infidels'? Again, your argument holds no water.

coogar:


VVF also known as Obstetric fistula (or väginal fistula) is a medical condition in which a fistula (hole) develops between either the rectum and vägina (see rectoväginal fistula) or between the bladder and vagina (see vesicoväginal fistula) after severe or failed childbirth, when adequate medical care is not available. It is considered a disease of poverty because of its tendency to occur in women in poor countries who do not have health resources comparable to developed nations.

"Severe or failed child birth" is very high among children whose pelvic area is under developed and unable to support the rigors of childbirth. Yes it is a "disease of poverty" in adults because it can occur as a result of poor care but with children, even the best of care cannot make up for the fact that their bodies are under developed causing them to have severe/failed child birth.

coogar:

it's personal because muslims have come to your door to ask for your daughter's hand in marriage at gunpoint? illiteracy is a disease. keep crying more than the bereaved - it's the habit of a typical nigerian so why ain't i surprised?

No, muslims can never come to my door to ask for my daughters hand in marriage but should we stand by and watch injustice because it isn't being done to us? These children are being exploited and it does not have to be my child for me to speak up and fight to protect them.

babylolaroy:
i love yu!!!!

First of all, these claims are fabricated. Children are not disvirgining themselves at dinner parties or at school yards! Big fat lie! When you were 6, 8 did you know what sex was? At 12 to 16 girls may be more knowledgeable and curious but will still not do it, it is scary, it is painful! Why would any child do that to themselves? Stop believing these ignorant lies.

As for women selling their bodies,
So instead of educating them on the dangers of what they are doing. Instead of eradicating the poverty causing them to exploit themselves, you want to legalize their exploitation by marrying them before they know how to tie their shoelaces. Makes no sense.

Wow. I'm speechless. That last girl doesn't even know what is happening. She is playing. This is just repulsive.

vire: I wonder why we have to break our necks over someone's ideology .........their religion gives them the right to have the girl child as wives...whats your own with it....they southern part of this nation should understand that even our culture supports underage marriages and because we don't explore that part of our culture doesn't mean its not there...Britain forced two different cultures together like they did in India,Pakistan and Nepal until they went their individual ways.....At least they are not asking for your daughters hands in marriage and even if they do you have a right to say no......Lets live and let them live....When they introduced Sharia Law it was as if we should all die but right now we can live with it....so we will also live with this Law.

Well, you know their religion gives them the right to kill infidels so why are you upset when they kill christians. I mean after all, it is their right to practice their religion. Do you hear how stupid you sound?

babylolaroy:
its enuf dah his grandma survived it....any one wu ddnt survive was meant to die niyen...ds stuff is goodnews ma...prostitution will reduce, abortion wll get out...it doesnt av to be force, d gal will gv consent and consummation will waif till shez fully mature. wat part of ds is hard to believ?

Are you a child bride? Is that why you cannot spell? Try and enrol yourself in school please. You are proving my point.

tha_originator: After some useless hypocritical christians will come here raining abuses on Islam even when their pastors are impregnating 6 years old girls in churches. Craze dey worry una!

Lies. Which 6 year old girl has started menstruating to even be able to get pregnant Anyway, if pastors are doing it, it is wrong. Christians are not justifying it. We are standing against it and against any pastor who does it. Islam on the other hand justifies this atrocity.

ShyM-X:
Evidently it isn't just an Islamic thing, the same thing happens in different cultures around the world. Even the Vatican isn't left out of the party. So why the hoopla about something as irrelevant as this and the distraction it's causing from the real issues Nigerians ought to deal with right now?

Anyway, I don't believe in marriage as an institution - I think it needs to be redefined. However, people need to be allowed to lead their lives the way they want, as long as it's part of their culture.

This is the legal age of minors getting married to each other! i.e Two minors getting married to each other. An adult (19 and above) CANNOT get married to a minor. Do you see the difference? Please read up on statutory rape, then comeback and delete this ridiculous post.

eldoradoxx: Thank you. Yerima said it all. My take on this is that if a girl is mature enough to be intimate out of wedlock, why not let a man marry her and legalise what she would otherwise be doing under the staircase, behind the school toilet, and other places. Would we rather have her do abortion at age 16 or prostitution or used as baby making factory at Aba or Owerri at age 17 than allow a decent man marry and care for her? We always say that Western societies are civilised, yet under the law in Britain a girl of 16 can legally marry with the consent of her parents or guardians, so why are we pretending here ! Are we now more civilsed that British and Americans ? If most of us make enquiry grandma, we would discover that many of them married at as early as age 14 and had their first kids at 15 or 16. If not for education that has deceived us into believing that to have kids is the end of educational pursuit, shudnt we rather follow the foot steps of our ancestors. Did our granddmom know anything like fibroid, did they have any cause to seek for abortion? How many of them were prostitutes ? They were not because they never had opportunity of being deprived of sex when they became biologically ready for that. Most of people who argue against Yerima's views do so because they probably are being intimate with girl out of wedlock and as far as they re concrned, it is ok and therefor, marriage should be an afterthought. Women are everywhere with nobody to marry them because sex has become too cheap, a man would rather have sex with different women than marry and you think Yerima is wrong ?

Is it because your grandmother survived? Do you know how many of her mates died in child birth? Do you know how many gave birth to unhealthy babies/still borns? Do you know how many suffer severe health issues as a result of this assault? Please, please do your research before you speak.

If sex is too cheap then women and men in society need to work on their morals. Marrying a 12 year old child is not the solution. Instead of you to raise your daughter to respect herself and maintain high morals, your solution is to marry her off to a disgusting old man?

Besides it is a big lie. There is NO city in Nigeria where 12 year olds are having sex and disvirgining themselves behind toilets. That is completely false. There is no study, no statistics. Nothing to support this ridiculous allegations.

tintingz: and you support fornication for little girls?

No, do you?

hardarms5050: abeg help me ask the sex hungry girl. As she has even lost her morals and decency to spit such nonsense. Ill brought up pig!!!

That was a hypothetical statement, did you see the "if" in front of it. Ok, you don't know what hypothetical means? Well, it is not my fault you didn't go to school. Blame your parents.

tintingz: Its a girl choice when little girls start sleeping around with boys and vice versa?? What is this world turning into? SMH

Yes, it is a girls choice. Give her the right upbringing so that she will make the right choices in life but don't use pedophilia as a solution to fornication.

Diplomat001: Those who shout #ChildNotBride , carry placards, sign petitions, I guess are sex-mongers, religious extremists, Educated illiterate, abortion promoters and people who have read so much they cannot understand simple English like those of Sen. Yerima...
"...but consummation of the marriage (litterally means sex) CAN ONLY
BE DONE when the girl becomes
physically mature and SHE GIVES HER
CONSENT to it because...."
Forget about the Senator's private matters,
How many of you fathers can boast of virgin daughters?
How many of you husbands met your wives as virgins?
How many times do you university students engage in sex weekly?
How many porn videos did you watch and practise as a kid?
How many of you girls are still virgins?
Sen. Yerimma's argument is simple
-Let her be engaged as a kid, she knows her husband
-NO sex till she grows up and consent.
-If she gets matured and dislike the marriage, dissolve it!
-Meanwhile, throughout maturity, since she's engaged, she's safe from adultery!
Now, tell me, You carrying #ChildNotBride
Do you want your daughters and sisters growing up clean or disvirgined because "she is free till 18". Think twice
Don't be stupid, SAVE the Girl Child

Jibril T. Babatunde
I Support Sen. Yerima

I can't argue with stupidity. You expect and 8 year old to "give consent"? You consider an 8 year old to be "mature"? Is an 8 year old enough to know what consent means? Which 8 year old will consent to being physically and sexually assaulted? How about the boy child, shouldn't we "save them from adultery" as well. IGNORANT!

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So what exactly is your point After wasting my time reading all that... you made no point.

This is not about religion. It is not about Islam. Christianity does not condemn pedophilia either, No where in the bible does it say it is a sin to marry an underage child but when you look at the impact of this act on the life of the child, common sense will tell you that it is wrong. These child have all sorts of medical complications from having sex and giving birth before the body is fully developed. Sometimes people have to use the brain that God gave them to think. Maybe Mohammed did not know that medical and psychological impact of this on children but now that we have the statistics and medical studies, now that the information is out there, act accordingly. I am sure the Quran preaches that you should love one another. Ask yourself, does endangering the life of a child show love?

ezeagu:

You're shameless. Instead of you to be talking about protecting YOUR future girl children, you instead laid the blame on disenfranchised women, when the blame is not on them but on the useless men who put this rubbish into law and the other millions of useless men who allowed this in a country that is overwhelmingly dominated by men and their desires. How many senators are women? Next time think before making stupid threads.

Dont mind the ignorant slowpoke. Instead of us uniting in a fight to protect our children he is coming on nairaland to spew his rubbish. Today, men and women, muslim and christian, young and old came out to sign the petition, they are united in speaking out against this injustice and this fool is coming on nairaland to shout: "shame on women". Have a seat, fool!

adewale2011: Him no say na most for any parent to give pikin marry, it left for the parent to decide that!!! If you Like leave ur dauther till 45year or when 50 boys enters the place before you advice her to settle down!!! Mshweee

No, it is not for the parents do decide. The child has rights. Parents do not own the child. If they parents are unfit or unwilling to care for the child, the Government should step in. Just because someone gave birth to a child doesn't mean they are fit to be parents. If they are willing to give up a 9 year old to be a play thing for a grown man, they are either extremely ignorant or clearly unfit parents. The government MUST step in and protect these children.

harthonder: I criosly wonder y everyone has been saying all
sorts of negative things on d child marriage
ruling,count in ur own neighbourhood how many
15 year old and below that are virgins,handful.
How many secondary schl girls are being disvirgnd
on valentine days in school toilets and bushes,how many inocent and underage housemaids are being
sexually abused in the houses of their
employees,even secondary school teachers abuse
their wards. Go to our female boarding schools and
see the no of underage girls engaging in illicit
practices,so many lesbians around. I don't think marrying a girl off at a tender age can stop her
from going to school or getting proper education,it
will only keep her away from engaging in acts that
are harmful to her and the entire community. I can
categorically say today that most club girls in
nigeria are teenagers,well below 18yrs of age,and they engage in things that even a 30yr old dare
not try. So what are we saying here.the no of ppl
that engage mostly in abortion fall below
18yrs,senators,politicians and rich men,senseless
ones though patrol our undergraduate hostels
looking for girls to have a one night stand with and once they give them a token amount,the gals
hop in their parked flashy cars and some even
have sex with them in their cars. If all these can be
happening,I see no reason why a 12 or 13 year old
girl cannot get married o,its for her own good
afterall.

Well, let's stop them from desecrating themselves. Please help me understand how it is "for her own good"? It is for her own good to risk her life? To damage her internal organs because a 12 year old is giving birth. Please get off the internet and stop displaying your ignorance.

Bleep.u.sexkills:
Yerima does have some valid points but I am still not thrilled getting married to an under age girl. In some States in America, under age marriage is allowed with consent of the parents. States like Oklahoma, Utah, Missisippi, and few other states.

No, he has not made ONE valid point. Not one. You cannot trample over someone else's right because you want to exercise yours. Yes, it is his right to practice his religion however he see fit BUT you cannot trample on someone elses rights. The child has rights too. Right to an education, the right to physical and psychological health.

How can you refer to this ridiculous garbage as "valid points". Are you for real

mcfynest:


you chicks are slaying oneanother.....now note.....the question should be directed this way, why do nigerian ladies think they are SECOND BEST after a male? why? is it a must you look for a guy that has a car why cant you buy yours?

ooooo booy 9ja babes gas to wake up

I have a degree own my own company and drive a 2012 Honda Civic. I am not second best to ANY man.

Garri the 1st:

You are the reason why people say women have fish brain!!!!

Are you aware that men dominate the senate and they're the ones who voted for your daughters to be legally fvcked even when they're still kids??

And you sit your ass down waiting for those same men to take the lead in this fight....abi??
You're truly a dullard!!

While women alone cannot fight this battle, I still insist that they MUST be in the forefront!! Their voices must ring from the roof tops and their cries must be heard earth-wide.

When the life, future and happiness of her child is endangered no sensible mother sits and wait for the men to take the lead, her response is instinctive and decisive!!!

Now like I told the other fish-brained mgbeke, carefully step aside lest ur little brain gets pulverized!!!

You are a complete and total slowpoke. In every well balanced household, the father is protective of his daughters. I don't blame you for thinking this is a mother's battle, perhaps your father didn't love you. Perhaps you only knew your mother's love that is why you think only Mothers should be affected. Some of us grew up in a balanced home with affection from both parents. When the child suffers both parents suffer. This is a battle for both men and women. If this fight is for women, why are you carrying it on your head. Coming on nairaland to shout shame on Women meanwhile you haven't done a damn thing. So when they give your daughter to an old man to marry you will say it is because her mother didn't fight. Please seat your tired ass down somewhere.