SAY 'NO'
TO CHILD MARRIAGE
Child Marriage has become a thing of serious concern in Nigeria. With the voting in the Senate supporting it, thanks to Governor Yerima pushing the motion.
(Governor Yerima is a Governor of a state in Nigeria who married a young girl of 13 years recently in a wedding that saw 'supposed important personalities' gracing the 'unholy child marriage' of a young disoriented child who is being officially introduced to sex at an early age).
The age her peers are running to school to learn. But poverty saw her being sold to a man old enough to be her father for a price they(the parents) believe will lift them out of poverty....for a while. A price he was willing to pay to satisfy his sexual urge.
Below is an interesting extract I found....
Healthcare professionals in Nigeria have warned that the country's government needs to consider the "medical consequences" of child marriage before making a "far-reaching decision".
Dr Imran Morhason-Bello, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at University College Hospital in Ibadan, told the Tribune that adolescents who become pregnant are faced "with myriads of avoidable medical problems".
"Evidence abounds that teenage pregnancy is associated with poverty, low educational level, high maternal morbidity and mortality," he said.
Child marriage has provoked heated debate in Nigeria following the senate's decision last month not to remove a legal loophole that legitimises the practice.
According to Dr Femi Akinwumi, a doctor at Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital in Ile Ife, the maternal mortality rate for women between the ages of 15 and 19 is twice as high as for those in their early 20s.
Girls aged between ten and 14 years, meanwhile, are five times as likely to die due to complications in pregnancy, childbirth or the postpartum period as their older counterparts.
Posted by Alexandra George
Healthcare professionals in Nigeria have warned that the country's government needs to consider the "medical consequences" of child marriage before making a "far-reaching decision".
Dr Imran Morhason-Bello, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at University College Hospital in Ibadan, told the Tribune that adolescents who become pregnant are faced "with myriads of avoidable medical problems".
"Evidence abounds that teenage pregnancy is associated with poverty, low educational level, high maternal morbidity and mortality," he said.
Child marriage has provoked heated debate in Nigeria following the senate's decision last month not to remove a legal loophole that legitimises the practice.
According to Dr Femi Akinwumi, a doctor at Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital in Ile Ife, the maternal mortality rate for women between the ages of 15 and 19 is twice as high as for those in their early 20s.
Girls aged between ten and 14 years, meanwhile, are five times as likely to die due to complications in pregnancy, childbirth or the postpartum period as their older counterparts.
Posted by Alexandra George
