₦airaland Forum

kcbaba007:
Bunch of jokers...

Looking for another way to loot money, knowing fully well that it will not solve anything....

Meanwhile the sponsors of terrorism in Nigeria are in the government and in the military, and other security aparatus

RaptorX:
Fence that can be easily breached or will you put a soldier or policeman every few meters to guard the fence? What a dumb idea, Nigeria cannot even afford it so this guy is just talking rubbish. Even America dare not fence their entire border, just sections of it.

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'I scarred my six children by using skin-lightening creams'

[i]BBC News, Kano

A mother in northern Nigeria is visibly upset as she clutches her two-year-old child, who has burns and discoloured skin on his face and legs.

The 32-year-old used skin-whitening products on all six of her children, under pressure from her family, with results that she now deeply regrets.

Fatima, whose name has been changed to protect her family's identity, says one of her daughters covers her face whenever she goes out in order to hide her burns.

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An animal mixing bleaching creams in the market
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Another was left with darker skin than before - with a pale circle around her eyes, while a third has whitish scars on her lips and knees.

Her toddler still has weeping wounds - his skin is taking a long time to heal.

"My sister gave birth to light-skinned children but my children are darker skinned. I noticed that my mother favours my sister's children over mine due to their skin tone and it hurt my feelings a lot," Fatima says.

She says she used creams she bought at her local supermarket in the city of Kano, without a doctor's prescription.
At first it seemed to work. The grandmother warmed towards Fatima's children, who were aged between two and 16 at the time.

But then the burns and scars appeared.

Skin-whitening or lightening, also known as bleaching in Nigeria, is used in different parts of the world for cosmetic reasons, though these often have deep cultural roots.

Women in Nigeria use skin-whitening products more than in any other African country - 77% use them regularly, according to the UN World Health Organization (WHO).

In Congo-Brazzaville the figure is 66%, in Senegal 50% and in Ghana 39%.

The creams may contain corticosteroids or hydroquinone, which can be harmful if used in high quantities, and in many countries are only obtainable with a doctor's prescription.

Other ingredients sometimes used are the poisonous metal, mercury, and kojic acid - a by-product from the manufacture of the Japanese alcoholic drink, sake.

Dermatitis, acne and skin discolouration are possible consequences, but also inflammatory disorders, mercury poisoning and kidney damage.

The skin may become thinner, with the result that wounds take longer to heal, and are more likely to become infected, the WHO says.

''I visited a popular market in Kano, where people who call themselves "mixologists" create skin-whitening creams from scratch.

The market has a whole row of shops where thousands of these creams are sold.

Some pre-mixed varieties are arranged on shelves, but customers can also select raw ingredients and ask for the cream to be mixed in front of them.

I noticed that many bleaching creams, with labels saying they were for babies, contained regulated substances.

Other sellers admitted using regulated ingredients such as kojic acid, hydroquinone and a powerful antioxidant, glutathione, which may cause rashes and other side-effects.

I also witnessed teenage girls buying bleaching creams for themselves and in bulk so that they could sell them to their peers....''

glacswhite:
Take Easy Bro.. I have learnt a lot from the corrections u gave to that fellow...

But I just wonder how Blacks did fall n still remained on the floor without trying to rise

2elliot:
It still doesn't change the fact that those countries do not belong to blacks.

Bendeco02:
You guys should rest

America is a latina/white nation

We all know how black reach there (slave trade and migration)

North America as a continent is not black continent. Africa is the only original black continent.

Stop looking for trouble where there's none

Can you go to Arab nation and be demanding for equal right. I don't know why we blacks like to form strong head to people liberal to us.

If they still give blacks political control of America, they will scatter the nation.

Quarterpast:
Don't mind them. Always criticising. Same people that can't produce ordinary toothpick are the ones talking down on other people's inventions

Benbisco:
You know, you could have made this post without the word "stupid" and still pass the message across.

OldSkoolHeadBoy:
The big news is the surprise that the unreliable vehicle did not fall apart on the road to disgrace Nigeria

Lanruze:
To put it in the right perspective sir

Nigeria's GDP under Goodluck Jonathan when you led Occupy Nigeria= $510B

Nigeria's GDP under PBAT before the fraudulent re-basing = $300B.

GEJ- Partial subsidy removal. N67- N97 accounting for a 69% increase only.

Tinubu full subsidy removal from N187 - N1,100 <N865 accounting for a 462% increase.

udemzyudex:
Lol.. It's shameful when you see an old man with no integrity.

Hypocrite.

ukukaegbu:
Stupid tribalist!

adalame:
The Igbo people have now positioned themselves as a major source of conflict in Nigeria, constantly engaging in disputes with others. If they had directed this level of scrutiny and pressure toward their governors, their region would have made much greater progress by now.

YeyeGbami:
Lagos dey smell but critics can’t leave Lagos to go and enjoy clean air in their villages.

BadBradley:
What were they expecting when Mugabe was seizing white lands.

South Africa is the next Zimbabwe in that region.

ricson11:
Tinubu's suspension of Governor Fubara is over-excessive use of power. Governor Fubara should be in court now - Wole Soyinka


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g_s0iduS5Q?si=O-LOjBmtpkmlHw-H

idahme:
U are a big bigot, how fo u know he is Igbo? Why una mumu no dey ever do?

Paraman:
You can't dictate to us in Nigeria. You have the choice of relocating to Burkina Faso instead of just wailing on nairaland.

Paraman:
Relocate to Burkina Faso nah

Doylestown92:
Educate himself by reading books, right? Did any of your ancestors write a single book? The White man brought Science and technology, that's undisputed.

Zionmdde:
The wig has nothing to do with the uselessness of our judicial system. A petty thief is given life imprisonment while those stealing in billions are granted bail

If you want to do away with colonialism, you should do away with courts, science, technologies and everything the white man brought to our country. Let's revert back to our sculptures, swearing in shrines etc.

We demonise colonialism but cannot imagine how Nigeria would have been had we been colonized till the 2000s