Female genital mutilation defined by WHO as "partial or total removal of the external female Instruments or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons."
This act is common amidst African countries. It is done at birth or before puberty.
Further information
As of 2013, there was legislation against FGM in the following practising countries (several introduced restrictions short of a ban; an asterisk indicates a ban according to UNICEF–UNFPA in 2012):
Benin (2003)Burkina Faso (1996*)Central African Republic (1966, amended 1996)Chad (2003)Côte d'Ivoire (1998)Djibouti (1995, amended 2009*)Egypt (2008*)Eritrea (2007*)Ethiopia (2004*)Ghana (1994, amended 2007)Guinea (1965, amended 2000*)Guinea-Bissau (2011*)Iraqi Kurdistan (2011)Kenya (2001, amended 2011*)
Mauritania (2005)Niger (2003)Nigeria, some states (1999–2006)Senegal (1999*)Somalia (2012*)Sudan, some states (2008–2009)Tanzania (1998)Togo (1998)Uganda (2010*)Yemen (2001).
Some states in Nigeria is still practising this act. That is why am writing this article to call the attention of the Nigerian government to it.
More facts............

Female Circumcision(FC), also known as female genital cutting and female genital mutilation, is the ritual removal of some or all of the external female Instruments. Typically carried out by a traditional circumciser using a blade or razor (with or without anaesthesia).
For the advantage of non-medical student I will like to outline the procedures.
PROCEDURES


The procedures differ according to the ethnic group. They include removal of the clitoral hood and clitoral glans(the visible part of the clitoris), removal of the inner labia and, in the most severe form (known as infibulation), removal of the inner and outer labia and closure of the vulva. In this last procedure, a small hole is left for the passage of urine and menstrual fluid, and the vagina is opened for intercourse and opened further for childbirth. Health effects depend on the procedure, but can include recurrent infections, chronic pain, cysts(closure of the vagina for easy intercourse), an inability to get pregnant, complications during childbirth and fatal bleeding. There are no known health benefits.
Futhermore,the practice is rooted in gender inequality, attempts to control women's sexuality, and ideas about purity, modesty and aesthetics. It is usually initiated and carried out by women, who see it as a source of honour, and who fear that failing to have their daughters and granddaughters cut, will expose the girls to social exclusion.
However,the laws are poorly enforced. There have been international efforts since the 1970s to persuade practitioners to abandon it, and in 2012 the United Nations General Assembly, recognizing FC as a human-rights violation, voted unanimously to intensify those efforts. The opposition is not without its critics, particularly among anthropologists. Eric Silverman writes that "FGM has become one of anthropology's central moral topics, raising difficult questions about cultural relativism, tolerance and the universality of human rights."
HISTORY
Until the 1980s FGM was widely known as female circumcision, which implied an equivalence in severity with male circumcision. The Kenya Missionary Council began referring to it as the sexual mutilation of women in 1929, following the lead of Marion Scott Stevenson, a Church of Scotland missionary. References to it as mutilation increased throughout the 1970s. Anthropologist Rose Oldfield Hayes called it female genital mutilation in 1975 in the title of a paper, and in 1979 Austrian-American researcher Fran Hosken called it mutilation in her influential. The Hosken Report: Genital and Sexual Mutilation of Females.
EFFECTS OF FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION
Immediate consequences of FGM include severe pain and bleeding, shock, difficulty in passing urine, infections, injury to nearby genital tissue and sometimes death.
Almost all women who have undergone FGM experience pain and bleeding as a consequence of the procedure. The event itself is traumatic as girls are held down during the procedure. Risk and complications increase with the type of FGM and are more severe and prevalent with infibulations.
“Thepain inflicted by FGM does not stop with the initial procedure, but often continues as ongoing torture throughout a woman’s life”, says Manfred Nowak, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture.
Additional risks for complications from infibulations include urinary and menstrual problems, infertility, later surgery (defibulation and reinfibulation) and painful sexual intercourse. Sexual intercourse can only take place after opening the infibulation, through surgery or penetrative sexual intercourse.
Conclusively I think with these it's high time the government looked into this and do something about it. Parents should stop affecting the future of their daughters with a meaningless culture.
References
-WIKIPEDIA
-ENDFGM
-WHO.

This act is inhumane

Dem. Knw dey swit to fvck na just ma problm bdat

They should as well remove their g spot

Front page lacalasticala , obinoscopy, seun , ishilove.

Renylee:
This act is inhumane

yes, i think the government shud look into it. Lest i 4got , where u circumcised?

SOBSISRAEL:
yes, i think the government shud look into it. Lets i 4get , where u circumcised?

No

People still do female Circumcision, but partially.
A woman explained in details why it's still advisable to do so. She reasoned that if Naija women were not circumcised at all, they'll probably be running around asking for sex like oyibo women.
They still do it, but not the way it was done before.

such act doesn't exist in my tradition. but I really pity those who have gone through such evil act all in the name of tradition.

Who does this in Nigeria?

Why are such irrelevant topics making fp these days?

Hmmmmm, in those days @ OAU we went for random survey within ife, osogbo& its enviros where such pratice used to b of imp, my pscy& sociology lecturer made us realize dat most circum female end up been promiscuous due to lack of satisfaction in s*x. They tend to try another thinking it cld b better.

Like seriously, what are they circumcising ?


The cu*t?

[/b]From my findings, imo state is leading in it, I first encountered ladies with it when I entered the university .
All of them were from imo state, I was even appalled when most of them still opined that they''ll do so to their babies too.
You can be educated but not enlightened.[b]

Mmmm

Thank God im male and iv learnt to mind my own business

Wondering what's the essence of this mutilaton whole stuff..
Its really bullshit when I watch documentary about how it is done, the pain, everything. So primitive.

hmmmmm

Thank you mommy and daddy for not scrapping part of my hooha.

no known health benefit so why does it exist

Barbarians

Amusaopeyemi:
Mummy

meaning

Post no Bill

Can't fathom what they are saying.
But but but lemme guess.,..............



Genital mutilation is BAD!!!!

Renylee:
No

Pics or.....

Its pure wickedness, fvck tradition and culture for dis

Amusaopeyemi:
Thank you mommy and daddy for not scrapping part of my hooha.

Picture nko

thaoriginator:
Picture nko

Picture ko photo ni