₦airaland Forum

Did they say Port Harcourt is South east? These people are incorrigible. They are so greedy. They just want to add port Harcourt to their Biafra by all means. That's why they didn't stage the rally in any of the southeastern states. What happened to using Aba, Oyigbo and so on? They should dream on

Her mum told you.

Did you ever ask her her age and did she concur with what her mom said her age was?

Is the new age more than your current age?


How sure are you that this hearsay is in fact the truth?

Have you asked her directly? I bet the answer is no cause you said she is unaware of your discovery.

If her mom lied, and she only had to tell a white lie to save her mom's face (in a manner of speaking) does that make you love her any less?

Jakasibo:
am an eye witness it happened in my town

Did you witness the rape?

No be small rigging

See him looking like he would faint any moment, yet he doesn't want to go and rest to enjoy his latter years jejely

Cousim:
Buhari 74...resigns as President of Nigeria

Future impossible tense

Kai. See national embarrassment

Literally no comment before hitting front page

They would have just said life imprisonment. Which one is 195 years. How old is he now? What's his life expectancy especially when incarcerated? Abi is it other people's lives he'll borrow to make the 195 years?

This is a welcome development

Maaamaa please go ahead with the marriage. All the plans have been made. Don't deny this child the opportunity of having a complete home. The guy is as guilty as you but is throwing all the blames on you. He could have rejected your offer or not let you get pregnant. I believe with time nature will play its role and make things between you both bearable

and they keep blaming the women for their inability to conceive

evy1:
He is on another level
Try and help it out na.

What have you been smoking?

evy1:
jeez in public omo that one na highest o

I'm telling you. Till date I'm the only one that knows his pattern and can spot the difference between his just lying there and when he's at it. I see it in the twitching of his toes. But others don't understand. He needs a hard surface to lye on to do it

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Nothing person no go see. Why didn't he kill himself too

But the govt is taking care of them post incarceration, trauma-wise and all. What sort of endowment fund is she raising? To what end?

Really emotional

This man is looking for whose neck to hang his death

One word for this...

#Great

By Anamesere Igboeroteonwu and Tom Esslemont

ENUGU, Nigeria/LONDON, Oct 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As 16-year-old Maria strained under the anguish of labour in southeastern Nigeria, a midwife repeatedly slapped her across the face - but the real ordeal began minutes after birth.

"The nurse took my child away to be washed. She never brought her back," the teenager said, gazing down at her feet.

Maria said she learned her newborn daughter had been given up for adoption for which she received 20,000 naira ($65.79) - the same price as a 50 kilogram bag of rice.

And Maria is far from alone.

A Thomson Reuters Foundation investigative team spoke to more than 10 Nigerian women duped into giving up their newborns to strangers in houses known as "baby factories" in the past two years or offered babies whose origins were unknown.

Five women did not want to be interviewed, despite the guarantee of anonymity, fearing for their own safety with criminal gangs involved in the baby trade, while two men spoke of being paid to act as "studs" to get women pregnant.

Although statistics are hard to come by, campaigners say the sale of newborns is widespread - and they fear the illegal trade is becoming more prevalent with Nigeria heading into recession this year amid ongoing political turbulence.

"The government is too overstretched by other issues to focus on baby trafficking," said Arinze Orakwue, head of public enlightenment at the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).

Record numbers of baby factories were raided or closed down in the southeastern states of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo this year, NAPTIP said.

A total of 14 were discovered in the first nine months of 2016, up from six in 2015 and 10 in 2014, the data showed.

But despite the growing number of raids, the scam exploiting couples desperate for a baby and young, pregnant, single women continues with newborns sold for up to $5,000 in Africa's most populous nation where most people live on less than $2 a day.

Cultural barriers are also a factor in the West African nation, with teenage girls fearing they will be publicly shamed by strict fathers or partners over unwanted pregnancies if they do not give up their children, experts say.

"In southeastern Nigeria a woman is deemed a failure if she fails to conceive. But it is also taboo for a teenager to fall pregnant out of wedlock," said Orakwue.

Maria said in the home in Imo state where she gave birth pregnant teenagers were welcomed by a maternal nurse who liked to be called "mama" but went on to sell the babies they delivered.

"(After I gave birth) somebody told me that mama collected big money from people before giving them other people's babies," Maria told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in the grounds of a school compound in her village.

"I do not know where my baby is now," said Maria, using a false name for her own protection.

A lot of the trade is carried out in Nigeria but authorities suspect babies are also sold to people from Europe and the United States because many foreigners continue to seek infants there despite the controversy around Nigerian adoptions.

http://news.trust.org/item/20161011230347-rx0n9/

tuoyoojo:
bonus

No need to allot a special time for mopping. Just wear this around the house

I've known about it long before now

Even her pose. Just imagining how much she must have rocked life

charix:
If doctors certify you normal then you're probably suffering early onset schizophrenia or a similar mental disorder; smelling non-existent odours.
Your only cure is obviously found in repeated hospital visits. I doubt nairalanders can give you proper advice. My only contribution is purchase of deodorant soaps or TCP, tetmosol and the likes which have overwhelming odours to mask natural ones. Also search supermarkets for deodorants which last 48 and more hours. Buy sosorobia and other strong smelling perfumes -- always better to frustrate people with synthetic odours than foul organic ones.

this is real comic relief

WowSweetGuy:
Soak yourself inside a big bowl or small tank of water u can fit in with two full bags of salt poured inside.. Chill there for 24hrs and thank me later

Is this a joke?

OP do you know if you have an STI? That might be the culprit.

Copy cat

Fairgodwin:
My ONLY fear is the fact that I won't be able to stay alone anymore. The fact that I won't be able to sleep alone and wake innocently alone. Oh I so much enjoy being alone and spending time with myself all by myself.

#teamloners

Proudly

JerryTemi:
Speak to God in prayers,He can change everything I mean it.locate winners and sow a seed on this.

See marketing. So its by church denomination now. Why didn't you just talk about her going to God in prayers and leave money out of it. So God will not listen to her without money abi? Na you sabi

This one pass me.