₦airaland Forum

dotuna3: I just pray NTA show us dis dat day. Its gonna be fun dat day. Can't wait

it will be seriously edited.

mysticgal: why do i think this story is a script

Most tales in this section are scripts but the painful truth is that it is often someone else's reality. So no harm treating them all as truth.

ballabriggs: My friend Efe is also going through emotional and physical abuse in his marriage.

Any advice for him please?

Tell him to report his wife to her parents and take immediate action to stop it. How can a woman beat her husband? It is as bad as the other. Shameless woman.

25Calibre: Neither did I say assault is justifiable. I'm not defending violence at all, all I'm saying is that this " a saint being beaten by the devil " Image Swag Queen is trying to paint here, might just be far from the truth.

A reasonable counsellor would want to hear both sides, even in a court of law, the man would still be given the benefit of the doubt and not have judgement just passed on him (like many have done here, thats why there is no justice in Nigeria) without him having the opportunity to defend himself.

Even if Swag is a LovePeddler and worse,it still does not justify laying a hand on her. It is inexcusable. I am sure the Swag is a bad girl and maybe a worse wife yet no man deserves to lay hand on her.
How can a sane man lay hands on a pregnant woman? What level of madness is that?

Ema prince: Only slapped my sister once and that was like 11yrs ago.I was small anyway.she felt dizzy and i was filled with remorse.
since then,I have never beaten any woman and will never do!..But advising the abused to leave their marriage isn't the best.
If you are a Christian,talk to your pastor and he will tell you that it is not prudent to leave your marriage because,even if you get married to another,that first man is still your true husband.forget all these things we are learning from the white.

I'll advice that you pray harder to GOD over this.there is nothing impossible to him

i don't want to turn this into a religious battle but some pastors are nutcases. Some of them beat their wives.
My wife's friend complained to her pastor about her husband beating her. Do you know what he said?
"You too should be careful how you talk to your husband. You know he has a temper."
I just shook my head when my wife told me the story.

I don't care whatever excuse you can come up with. If you are a man and you beat a woman (talk less of your wife or girlfriend),you are of all men most miserable and the scum of the earth. I don't care what her crime is. It is inexcusable and you deserve castration. In my books you are as bad as a rapist.

slimyem: Been doing the same since forever...
Tested and trusted!!

confirmed.

Olamira: Pls sir help me tell them that i've grown out of shape. I don't care if it's ASUU or f.g fault anymore. D shud just call it off abeg.

Na shape be your own worry?

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/sep/16/eric-abidal-dani-alves-barcelona-liver

Abidal told Catalunya Radio that Dani Alves, who now wears Abidal's old number 22, "wanted to give me his liver but it couldn't be" because it would have hurt the Brazil right-back's ability to play. The France defender's cousin ended up donating him part of his liver.

"The story with Dani goes beyond the jersey," Abidal said. "He knows it. Me too. We are friends and we talk about everything. He wanted to support me. And besides, he's a very good person. He was my neighbour and his ex-wife and my wife are friends."

The 34-year-old Abidal had a liver transplant in 2012, keeping him away from football for a year. He returned to make a few appearances for Barcelona before leaving in the summer to join Monaco, whom he now captains.

Abidal also says his statement to the French press that he was upset with his treatment by Barcelona when they decided not to renew his contract was a "misunderstanding". Abidal had told the sports daily L'Equipe that Barcelona had not paid his salary while he was ill. Barcelona denied that in a statement.

"I have no problem with Barcelona," Abidal said on Sunday. "Everything was agreed to and what Barca said was true and what I said was also true. There isn't any problem. Not with [president] Sandro Rosell, not with [sports director Andoni] Zubizarreta, not with [former coach Tito] Vilanova, not with the fans. Everything is fine. I will return to Barcelona with the same joy I have always had."

Abidal said he still plans to accept Barcelona's offer to return as director of their football schools when he finishes his playing career.

Is this scam still on?
Even in death,may God have mercy on UMYA for instituting the endless bazaar and looting spree called Amnesty.

How did this topic go tribal?

These are the liberators the masses are counting on,right?
SMH

16 Sep 2013


By Wale Olaleye and Onyebuchi Ezigbo

The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Mr. Abdulwaheed Omar, Sunday said he would lead the Labour Party (LP) governorship campaign in November 16 election in Anambra State.

This came as the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has written the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the stalemate over the governorship primaries of its party, asking the commission not to tamper with the nomination of Mr. Tony Nwoye as its candidate in the November 16 governorship election in Anambra State.

Speaking with journalists at the weekend shortly after its 16th National Executive Council (NEC), Omar said workers in the state had suffered in the previous regimes and wondered why they would toy with the opportunity to enthrone an LP government in the state.
He called on workers in the state to learn from the gains of the party’s governments in both Edo and Ondo States.

He said the LP would campaign in Anambra State the way it did in Edo and Ondo States.

"We will even do more, we will tell the skeptics that Labour is the party that Nigerians need if they want development as it's being witnessed in Edo and Ondo States," Omar said.

While endorsing the candidature of Ifeanyi Ubah, the NLC leader said: "We have now resolved that we will not only go and cast our votes and fold our arms after sensitising the workers and other Nigerians, but we will monitor the collation, the counting up to the declaration of the results. We will encourage every worker to ensure he or she is be part of the monitoring.

"Anambra State is a very unique area particularly to workers because if you go and ask the state workers if they are fully enjoying their minimum wage, you will hear their answer; whether they are very comfortable in their various places of work, you will hear the answer. Not only workers, even market women and other people, therefore I think Anambra people are desperately looking for a change and a change for the better."

Meanwhile, the PDP, in letter dated Friday September 13 and signed by its counsel, J.K. Gadzama and Managing Partner, J.N Egwuonwu, alluded to some newspapers’ reports that a factional candidate, Senator Andy Uba, had been upheld as the party’s candidate following order of the courts.

According to the letter obtained by THISDAY, PDP noted that the judgment, which ordered the parties to the dispute on the legitimacy of the Anambra State PDP executive to maintain the status quo, did not in any way infer that the nomination of Nwoye through the primary conducted by the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) should be upturned.

Insisting that the conduct of governorship primaries of the party is an exclusive function of the NEC as stipulated in Section 87 of the Electoral Act, the letter stated that a change of leadership even if enforced on the party could not alter the job procedurally done by the NEC which produced Nwoye as the party’s candidate.

While appealing to Jega to maintain the integrity of the commission, PDP stated: “Sadly, this order of court, most especially the third paragraph which states that the 1st and 2nd Defendants (the Peoples Democratic Party, and the Independent National Electoral Commission) should recognise and deal with the 1st plaintiff (Ejike Ogbuebego) in all matters in Anambra State has been badly misconstrued and the position of the court deliberately and mischievously misrepresented. Some media houses even reported that the Court had upheld Andy Uba’s nomination as the PDP Anambra State Gubernatorial Candidate when nothing of the sort transpired in court.”

While maintaining that the court order “does not in any way relate to the nomination and election of Hon. Tony Nwoye as the Gubernatorial Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Anambra State (which nomination and selection has not been invalidated or nullified by any court in Nigeria),” it stated: “Rather, it is with respect to who is the State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Anambra State. The issue of who is the valid gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Anambra State does not in any way concern the State Chairman of the Party in Anambra State; rather it is a function of the National Executive Committee of the party.”

Gadzama however made references to judicial pronouncements which he said were in accordance to Section 87 (1)(4)(b)(i) of the Electoral Act as amended and “confirmed that only the National Executive Committee of the party has the power to conduct primaries for governorship elections in Nigeria.

However, the National Chairman of the party, Dan Nwanyanwu, said there was no need for the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to runaway from the negotiating table.

He said the party's NEC was of the view that government should look passionately on the demands of ASUU while lecturers should also look at where to offer some concessions so that the students will return to classrooms.

"There is no need of flexing muscles, the truth is that education sector is in comatose, I am talking as a pro-chancellor of a state university. These things happened over the years and government must not sign agreement he does not intend to honour, that is the point ASUU is making.

"If you put your signature on a document, implement it. There is no need for the federal government not to implement the agreement he made with ASUU. If you did not want to meet the agreement there was not reason for you to sign it, that is why ASUU is suspecting the government that it just wants to get them back to work and they will not honour the agreements. They should honour the agreements, return to the negotiating table and agree on those issues," Nwanyanwu said.

On the crisis rocking the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the party also warned "anti-democratic forces against using the current political challenges to derail democracy, adding that Nigerians have accepted democracy and not dictatorship.

aasog1: The minister for education speaking and acting like this? Shake my head for this country.

His choice of words are so loutish.

I hope he will come and ask for spiritual amnesty for kidnappers?

new maonza: l tot Keyamo was a Jehovah's witness, &witnesses dont have any thing to do with d political system of the world

He is and i think he is also baptised. He does field work too (used to in the past). They will likely ex-communicate him.

bknight: I read this article and though I didn't agree with his stance on granting amnesty to kidnappers I thot he made a bit of sense...

But after I watched d clip of the interview on TV, I couldn't help thinking 'can this man just shut the fcvk up?!'

Considering that this was the first time i was listening to him talk. I was disappointed. I think in addition to any check up,he should see a psychiatrist. His brain seems messed up.

This was the first time i was listening to the man talk.
If this is the quality of SANs we have in this country,no wonder cash and carry justice reigns.

anonimi: How has the FG being "rewarding criminals"?
Did I miss something

What sort of rhetorical question is that?
Did you miss the criminals from ND that UMYA rewarded with bottomless pit called amnesty?
What of the criminals masquerading as Jihadists that GEJ has been begging to come and accept amnesty?

[quote author=Mayor_of_Lagos]For advocating amnesty for criminals, Ozekhome ought to be stripped of his SAN honor.[/quote]I watched the video and the man was talking so much rubbish that i wondered if his mental state had not been altered by the incarceration.
He should just thank God that he got out alive and quit talking plenty.

princemolak: Why will a Government abandon a certain area because They didnt vote for Him there,Nigeria as not Gone that Bad

That is a politically biased statement that does not hold water. The truth of the matter is that the resources of the govt is limited and the needs (not just wants) of the state far outstrip it. BRF has taxed the people to the max and their is a limit to wish you can increase IGR yet the money no reach. i will like the electorates to keep highlighting all these bad areas to keep the govt on their toes but to say that political affiliation is the reason why such roads remain undone is simplistic and childish. It is like the alleged ant-igbo agenda in Okota and FESTAC.

•Baraje to Jonathan: You can't win 2015 election without us
•Tukur, Oyinlola exchange barbs
•22 Senators, 85 House members meet on PDP crisis
•Splinter group relocates secretariat to Adamawa lodge

By Chuks Okocha and Muhammad Bello

The marathon Tuesday night meeting between President Goodluck Jonathan and four out of the seven governors who broke away with other party chieftains to form a splinter group, inched towards an accord, with the parties agreeing to continue their peace talks on Sunday.

However, despite the efforts to resolve their differences some of the chieftains of the ruling party and the splinter PDP could not resist taking pot shots at each other.

The National Chairman of the splinter group, Alhaji Abubakar Baraje, cautioned the president not to be deceived by sycophants who want him to believe that he would win the 2015 presidential election without the support of the eight states of Rivers, Kano, Sokoto, Adamawa, Jigawa Kwara, Kebbi and Niger.

This was followed by a barrage of words exchanged between the National Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, and the National Secretary of the New PDP, Olagunsoye Oyinlola.
Tukur, who fired the first salvo, described Oyinlola as an unrepentant dictator, while Oyinlola replied, saying, “He is unreasonable and has gone senile.”

Also, in the midst of the bickering, the splinter PDP announced the relocation of its national secretariat to the Adamawa State Governor’s Lodge after its secretariat was sealed off by the police at the weekend.

However, THISDAY gathered that the peace meeting held Tuesday night till yesterday morning to resolve the crisis rocking PDP ended with some concessions made by the president to the governors.

Of the seven issues discussed by the president and the Group of Seven Governors (G7 governors), represented by Governors Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Chibuike Amaechi (Rivers), Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu (Niger) and Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto), five were resolved while two were deferred for discussion on Sunday.

Jonathan had on the advice of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who chaired the PDP Elders Committee, met with the four governors individually, because their grievances were peculiar to each of them.

According to a presidency source, the president was in the company of the Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the PDP, Chief Tony Anenih; Akwa Ibom State Governor and Chairman of PDP Governors’ Forum, Godswill Akpabio; and Governors Liyel Imoke and Capt. Idris Wada of Cross River and Kogi States respectively.

During the meeting, the source said: “The grievances of the governors were tabled and revisited individually by each of them.

“When the issue of party structures in each of the affected states came up, the overriding interest of PDP was taken into consideration and the president and his team agreed that the authentic party structures should be restored in Adamawa and Kano States.”

On the issue of the crisis in the Rivers State chapter of the PDP, however, there was concern over the alleged determination of some forces in the presidency to isolate Amaechi and make him the scapegoat of the crisis.

The presidency source said: “As for Rivers State, the president and his team advised all the parties to withdraw their lawsuits in court in order to resolve the matter.
“Although the president admitted that the suspension of Amaechi was illegal, given the expiration of the 30 days as specified by the party’s constitution, he said everything was predicated on the resolution of disputes in court.

“Accordingly, the president advised Amaechi to withdraw his lawsuits against the party so that his suspension can be lifted and a resolution is worked out with respect to the crisis in the Rivers State chapter of the PDP."

On the row in the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), the source explained: “Those with the president advised Amaechi to step down. But Amaechi was straightforward in his response when he said: 'I won’t step down'.”

The Rivers governor, THISDAY gathered, informed the meeting that he was elected by other governors who are not members of the PDP and therefore could not relinquish his mandate unless they told him to do so.

On the basis of his position, it was agreed that the NGF crisis should be taken out of the purview of the presidency and PDP and should be left to the 36 governors of the federation to resolve among themselves.

Regarding the 2015 poll, another source said one of the governors on the side of the president caused some tension when he took advantage of the talks to lash out at the G7 governors.

He said the G7 governors and others had deliberately caused the crisis because of 2015 poll, in order to stop Jonathan from contesting.

But one of the governors from the north said he had been in four meetings, including Ethiopia and United States where Jonathan said he would not contest in 2015.

The source added: “When the tension rose, it was agreed that Jonathan's candidature in the 2015 election should be put on the agenda at the next meeting on Sunday.

“Also, the fate of Tukur will be discussed at the next session on Sunday. I can tell you that Sunday’s meeting will determine the way forward," he said.

In addition, THISDAY gathered that before the meeting between the president and the G7 governors, 22 senators cutting across the mainstream PDP and the splinter group had met at the Maitama, Abuja residence of Senator Bukola Saraki.

Similarly, another meeting comprising 85 members of the House of Representatives took place in Abuja.

Both meetings were held to ensure that the crisis that has fractured the PDP does not snowball into a leadership crisis in the National Assembly, which will be resuming from recess on Tuesday, September 17

Some of the Senators at the meeting included the former Governor of Gombe State, Senator Danjuma Goje, former Governor of Nasarawa State, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, and Senator Aisha Alhassan from Taraba State.

Irrespective of the progress made at the meeting with the president, Baraje yesterday cautioned Jonathan not to be deceived by sycophants who want him to believe that he would win the 2015 presidential election without the support of Rivers, Kano, Sokoto, Adamawa, Jigawa, Kwara, Kebbi and Niger States.

The splinter group also cautioned against the sponsored attacks and propaganda against Obasanjo and Anenih.

In a statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary of the New PDP, Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, the faction said: “Mr. President should not be deceived by some party leaders who are making him believe that he can do without us.

“Most of these leaders currently cannot under a properly organised free and fair election win their wards. It is obvious that no presidential election in Nigeria can be won without states like Rivers, Kano, Sokoto, Adamawa, Kwara, Niger and Kebbi, and these are states we are controlling.

“Check the past general elections and see that some of these media-created PDP leaders have no followers in their states at the moment, much less making any impact come 2015."

The faction further cautioned against what it termed propaganda and attacks against Obasanjo and Anenih.

“We have noticed the erroneous insinuation and propaganda by Tukur’s faction that the distinguished statesman, General Oulsegun Obasanjo, had a hand in our staging a walkout during the ill-conceived mini-convention of PDP and that he is the brain behind most of our activities.
“We view this as disparagement on us creating the impression that we are not mature enough to determine our political future and most importantly it was as an attempt to smear the international image of General Obasanjo as a distinguished statesman and father of PDP, and rubbish his current efforts to restore peace to a party, the very existence of which is being threatened by the undemocratic acts of some of its leaders.

“We can now understand why Tukur’s faction is hell-bent on destroying every effort to bring peace to the party,” the Baraje-led PDP said.

The statement further accused the Tukur-led National Working Committee (NWC) of frustrating all efforts being made by PDP elders such as Dr. Ahmadu Ali, Barnabas Gemade, Obasanjo and former military president, Ibrahim Babangida, to amicably resolve the crisis.

“We plead with them not to be deterred by those who are feeding fat on the crisis as we are ready to assist them in any way possible to enable them restore peace to our great party,” the New PDP said.

Meanwhile in Tukur’s tirade against Oyinlola, his media assistant, Oliver Okpala, described Oyinlola as a military dictator and administrator, whose style of politics is at variance with the current political dispensation in the country.

In a statement, Tukur said: “It is a fact that Oyinlola was one of those involved in military putsch who held down our democracy for a long time. As a former military man, Chief Oyinlola is an unrepentant dictator of the first order.”

But in a riposte, Oyinlola said: “Why we don't want to join issues with Baba Tukur is out of respect for old age, one can excuse him on account of his senility. Tukur has gone senile.”

The former national secretary of PDP added: “I remember he once granted an interview in which he described me as a fine officer and a gentleman, this same view was expressed by Olisa Metuh in a media interview recently.

“His statement shows inconsistency and poor leadership qualities. For instance, I made sure that all the rules and regulations of the PDP were strictly followed to the letter and that made it impossible for Tukur to appoint a chief of staff, which he wanted in violation of extant rules and regulations.

“It is on record at the headquarters of the PDP, that the period I served as national secretary marked remarkable changes in the administration of the PDP. He also attempted to appoint innumerable special advisers who were unknown to the establishment manual of the PDP.”

Expressing pride in his military background, Oyinlola said: “The fact that I trained as a military officer has never negatively affected my administrative capabilities and abilities. I remain a gentleman in all my services as a public officer and a politician.

“Tukur should attempt to do an opinion survey at the headquarters of his PDP and I assure him that his findings would make him abdicate his position without further delay based on the fact that he lacks the support of even members of staff, who regard his authoritative style as dictatorial and responsible for the crisis in the PDP.”

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/battling-a-barbaric-culture/158697/

The continued practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) around the country based on a belief system is impacting gravely on the future of women, writes Abiodun Eremosele



The pains she suffered made her weak. At age 14, Victoria Ibechukwu from a community in eastern Nigeria went through a humiliating experience of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). As she sat with this reporter to recount her ordeal, she wished it had not happened to her.
“I was forced against my wish,” she said. “But female circumcision or genital mutilation is not leaving us so soon. It is so deep that no knife can cut it. I went through it, and it was so painful and damaging. I want it stopped, I want it stopped and I want it stopped. No new generation lives in its past. We don’t need a barbaric culture anymore.”

In a population of over 150 million people with women accounting for about 52 per cent, Nigeria accounts for about one-quarter of the estimated 115–130 million circumcised women in the world.

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) according to the World Health Organization (WHO) is a procedure which involves partial or total removal of the external female Instruments and/or injury to the female genital organs, whether for cultural or any other non-therapeutic reasons. In Nigeria, subjection of girls and women to such obscure traditional practice is a common occurrence.

FGM is an unhealthy traditional practice inflicted on girls and women worldwide. It is widely recognised as a violation of human rights, which is deeply rooted in cultural beliefs and perceptions over decades across generations with no easy task for change. Though FGM is practiced in more than 28 countries in Africa and a few scattered communities worldwide, its burden is seen in Nigeria, Egypt, Mali, Eritrea, Sudan, Central African Republic, and northern part of Ghana where it has been an old traditional and cultural practice of various ethnic groups.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) most recent report, though found the practice on the decline but still projected that it will affect 30 million girls over the next decade.

So FGM reflects deep-rooted inequality between the sexes and constitutes an extreme form of discrimination against women. It involves violation of rights of the children and violation of a person's right to health, security, and physical integrity, the right to be free from torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment, and the right to life when the procedure results in death. Furthermore, girls usually undergo the practice without their informed consent, depriving them of the opportunity to make independent decision about their bodies.

According to a report by the Nigerian Medical Association, (NMA), FGM has the highest prevalence in the Southsouth ( 77 per cent among adult women), followed by the Southeast (68 per cent) and Southwest (65 per cent), but practiced on a smaller scale in the north, paradoxically tending to be in a more extreme form.
The NMA report revealed that national prevalence rate of FGM is 41 per cent among adult women. The Prevalence rates progressively declined in the young age groups and 37 per cent of circumcised women do not want FGM to continue.

So far, some of the reasons given to justify FGM include: protecting tradition, preservation of chastity and purification, family honour, hygiene, aesthetic, protection of virginity and prevention of promiscuity, modification of sexual attitudes (countering failure of a woman to attain orgasm), increasing sexual pleasure of husband, enhancing fertility and increasing matrimonial opportunities. Other reasons are to prevent mother and child from dying during childbirth and for legal reasons (that one cannot inherit property if not circumcised).

In some parts of Nigeria, the cut edges of the external Instruments are smeared with secretions from a snail footpad with the belief that the snail being a slow animal would influence the circumcised girl to “go slowly” with sexual activities in future. However, FGM is often routinely performed as an integral part of social conformity and in line with community identity. Despite effort by government to curb the practice, it is important to note that the situation remains very much the same.

A man, Daniel Ewheredo told THISDAY of his recent encounter. He said: “I travelled to my village in Igueben Local Government Area, Edo State for my uncle’s burial with my wife and our four daughters. A day after the burial, I was summoned to a family meeting where the issue centered on the circumcision of our four daughters who were given birth to in Lagos. I refused to agree to their terms and that led to a threat of kidnap and forceful circumcision of my children.
But I escaped from the village with my family through the help of a close relative. When I returned to Lagos I had to employ a guard for my children even at school.”

Ewheredo said he took the risk to escape to save his children from what their mother suffered when she was forced to be circumcised on the eve of their wedding eight years ago. According to him, his wife hails from Agenegbode in Estako West Local Government in Edo State. He claimed that it is the tradition of his wife’s village that a woman must be circumcised on the eve of her marriage. He told THISDAY that when he resisted the circumcision of his wife before their marriage, he was simply told that his wife will never have a child without the ritual.

Ewheredo who said the agony his wife went through had left her with permanent scare told THISDAY that the complications she suffered as a result of the mutilation cost him a fortune and nearly took the life of her wife. Indeed, Ewheredo is not the only person that has had this experience. A certain Mrs Patience, who hails from a village in Esan West Local Government Area in Edo State, has fled her matrimonial home with her daughters, because of the pressure on her to allow her daughters to be circumcised. She told THISDAY that trouble started when her husband’s brother visited them in Lagos. He had suggested to her husband to take their children to the village for purification, a term for FGM. Her husband accepted the proposal and a date was fixed. And to save her daughters, she fled home with them. As it is with rape, many cases of this nature are not reported in Nigeria. Like Ewheredo's wife, many girls and women worldwide are currently living with the consequences of FGM.

In Africa, about 3 million girls are at risk of FGM annually. Experts argued that the procedure has no health benefits for girls and women. To be sure, adverse consequences of FGM include pain and haemorrhage, infection, acute urinary retention following such trauma, damage to the urethra or anus as victims often struggle during the procedure making the extent of the operation dictated in many cases by chance, chronic pelvic infection, acquired gynatresia resulting in hematocolpos, vulval adhesions, dysmenorrhea, retention cysts, and sexual difficulties with anorgasmia. Other complications are implantation dermoid cysts and keloids, and sexual dysfunction.

Obstetric complications include perineal lacerations and inevitable need for episiotomy in infibulated paturients. Others are defibulation with bleeding, injury to urethra and bladder, injury to rectum, and purperial sepsis. Prolonged labour, delayed 2nd stage and obstructed labour leading to fistulae formation, and increased perinatal morbidity and mortality have been associated with FGM.

Accordingly, the mental and psychological agony of FGM is deemed the most serious complication because the problem does not manifest outwardly for help to be offered. The young girl is in constant fear of the procedure and after the ritual she dreads having sex because of anticipated pain and dreads childbirth because of complications caused by FGM. Such girls may not complain but end up becoming frigid and withdrawn resulting in marital disharmony. Consequently, a multidisciplinary approach is needed to tackle this deep-rooted legendary practice of FGM.

Experts agreed that there is a need for legislation in Nigeria with health education to ensure liberation of women who still subscribe to the culture of FGM.
“A coordinated campaign for social change in the communities where FGM is practised is essential. The battle to eliminate FGM is a long one, but it is a battle we must win,” said Kingsley Odogwu, an expert on FGM.

“With improvement in education and social status of women and increased awareness on complications from FGM, most women who underwent FGM will come out to disapprove of the practice and no one would be willing to subject their daughters to such harmful procedures in the future. The more educated, more informed, and more active socially and economically a woman is, the more she is able to appreciate and understand the hazards of harmful practices like FGM and sees it as unnecessary procedure with a refusal to accept such harmful practice,” he added.

In 1994, Nigeria joined other member state at the 47th World Health Assembly where they agreed to eliminate FGM. In that direction, the steps taken so far include establishment of a multisectoral technical working group on harmful traditional practices (HTPs), conduct of various studies and national surveys on HTPs, launching of a regional plan of action, and formulation of a national policy and plan of action, which was approved by the Federal Executive Council for the elimination of FGM in Nigeria not too long ago. But more is required, if government is keen on saving lives.

CAN is a political pressure group. They are forever dancing to some beat being beat from afar. I could not care less whether the appointees are animist. What matters is that they deliver. After all,the bad roads like Lagos Shagamu and Benin Ore do not discriminate when killing poor folks,yet Tony Annenih fills out 'Christian' on forms when asked his religion.

wbankz: I like ur christ..i dislike ur christain..ur christain are unlike ur christ...mahanta Ghandi

rubbish quote. If he liked the Christ so much,what stopped him from being a Christian and show the Christians how to be more like Christ?

[quote author=re@lchange]ifeanyi is performing even out of office, he will perform more in office![/quote]care to explain this joke?

spenca: if we clip our lives based on what we hear am sure we as a people would never have a mind of ours, sugar daddy honey daddy or whatever daddy you wanna label a man that was never on the news for an evil work n till performed as a major block in the success of Lagos state today, as an administrator he knows what it takes and the know how so why do we linger on invalidated new rather than face the question of his capability and penchant for advancement and developments. we should live on facts n knowledge not opinions ans possibilities . like DR Martin Luther king said "we are not whom we want to be , we are not whom we ought to be , we are not whom we were meant to be but we thank God we are not whom we was"

I hear you. I do not claim to be a saint but the tales are on the extreme side and it makes me doubt the man's sense of judgement. Like i said my choice is not in the race (Agbaje),i'll just trust Asiwaju to make a right choice (like he did with BRF) and i hope it is not this man.

The sugar daddy tales i hear about this man (Fowler) makes me uncomfortable. Most men chase but his own seems to bother on the extreme.
Jimi Agbaje is not loyal (you know what that means),if he were and contested, i will contribute money from my savings as a sign of support.A decent man with vision and politically astute yet principled.
I hope the Bordillon lord chooses a right man because it is his choice that will prevail at last.

kingbang: Yeah, i bet Kalu and Roaches were not as clueless and dumb as Ifeanyi Ubah. Have you heard this man map out his plans? You will hear things like "i will sponsor youths to brazil to watch world cup","I will build industries" and plenty other senseless utterances. A man who could not even manage his own business now wants to manage a whole state? You are joking!!

My disdain for Ubah is clear but let's be rational. At least we know of Ifeanyi Ubah's failed business,what business venture can we associate Rochas with? Yet he is said to be a billionaire.

kingbang: Yeah, i bet Kalu and Roaches were not as clueless and dumb as Ifeanyi Ubah. Have you heard this man map out his plans? You will hear things like "i will sponsor youths to brazil to watch world cup","I will build industries" and plenty other senseless utterances. A man who could not even manage his own business now wants to manage a whole state? You are joking!!

I have heard worse from politicians and that did not stop them from winning elections.
Even T.A. Orji talks more s.hit at present and that has not stopped imbeciles calling him God's best gift to Abia state.

Freiburger: That is over 20% of the population, i.e 1 out of every 5 Nigerians, Thats just too bad for a country aiming towards being a world power.

Any proof for the bold part of your comment?