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Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / Girl, 17 flees home over forced circumcision |
on: 23-02-2012 07:08 PM
| 17-year-old girl, Miss Patricia Youmgbo, has been declared missing by family members after she reportedly fled home to avoid circumcision. It was learnt that the girl’s decision to run away from home followed the death of her younger sister, Joy after she was forced to undergo circumcision on Jan. 15. An uncle to the missing girl, Mr Jonah Youmgbo, said that Patricia had fled the family home in Amassoma, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa since Feb. 14. Youmgbo said that the two sisters, who lived in Lagos, had came home in December 2012 to spend the Christmas with their grandmother in Amassoma. He said that the girls’ grandmother and some extended family members had ordered the girls to be circumcised before returning to Lagos. The decision of the family led to the forced circumcision of Joy, a development that triggered the excessive bleeding that eventually led to her death. Youmgbo, who lamented the death of the teenager, said that Joy, who was full of life before the forced circumcision, died from injuries as a result of the crude traditional practice of female genital mutilation. He explained that the victim, suffered severe excruciating pains for days after the mutilation of her genital before her death. Youmgbo said that medical reports obtained after the death of Joy, showed that the 15-year-old died of “Post Circumcision haemorrhage”. It was the fear of falling victim of the same circumcision that made the elder sister, Patricia to flee the community since Feb. 14. Youmgbo, who is a brother to the girls’ father, said that a case of missing person had since been reported at the Amassoma Divisional Police headquarters. He used the opportunity to call on Nigerians and Ijaw people in particular to desist from the “obnoxious” tradition of female genital mutilation. When contacted, the Bayelsa Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Eguavoen Emokpai, (ASP), who expressed shock at the development, however, said he had not received any report on the incident. Emokpai said he had been unable to reach the Divisional Police Officer in charge of the Amassoma Police Division for confirmation due to poor telephone network. WHO, an organisation that had been in the forefront of global campaign to stop the female genital mutilation, had described the act as procedures that involve the partial or total mutilation of the external female genitalia. The practice has been described globally as illegal and an infringement on the rights of women and should, therefore, be rejected in its entirety. | | |
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Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / 328 medical students sue Unijos over rejection |
on: 23-02-2012 07:01 PM
| A total of 328 medical students dropped by the University of Jos have sued the institution for alleged unjust rejection. The students are contesting the decision of the university to drop their names from the list of 478 students admitted for 2008/2009 academic session. The authorities of the university had admitted medical students in excess of the quota allowed by the Medical and Dental Council, necessitating the withdrawal of its accreditation. The authorities conducted an examination in January 2010 to screen the students admitted and only 150 were retained in a bid to keep its accreditation. When the case came up for hearing at the Federal High Court Jos on Thursday, Mr. Sunday Obende, the counsel to the students, told said they were unjustly denied the opportunity to continue with their academic pursuits. Obende prayed the court to compel the university authorities to allow them to continue with their studies as undergraduates in medicine. The counsel to the university, Mr. Ninnan Denden, however, objected to the submissions, saying that the screening was done in line with the rules guiding the course. “Dropping the students became the only option for the university authorities when the Medical and Dental Council withdrew the accreditation in December 2010. “The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria withdrew the accreditation it issued to the university for the simple reason that it admitted beyond 150 students required of all the Nigerian universities.” Dende said the university had given the affected students an option to choose courses from the other departments and continue with their academic pursuits. Contrary to the argument of the students that their admission preceded the council’s decision, Dende said the university flouted the council’s regulation in force since 2005. He said that the council in 2010, “descended on the university with a sledge hammer“ to force compliance. The judge, Justice Ambrose Allagoah, assured the parties in dispute that the court would accelerate the hearing, provided the two counsel eschewed delays. The judge noted that the semester examinations were approaching and adjourned the case to March 21 for further hearing. | | |
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Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / Re: Meet The World's Biggest Family. |
on: 22-02-2012 09:48 PM
| hellooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo sorry are you Nigerian or Congolese? coz if you are a Nigerian then u suppose don here about ur fellow country man wey get 86 wives and 500 children grand children never enter oo, bros see as u just cast India wen your country get de one wey bad pass dis man own na waoo
tell am as e dey go | | |
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Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / Re: Meet The World's Biggest Family. |
on: 22-02-2012 09:48 PM
| hellooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo sorry are you Nigerian or Congolese? coz if you are a Nigerian then u suppose don here about ur fellow country man wey get 86 wives and 500 children grand children never enter oo, bros see as u just cast India wen your country get de one wey bad pass dis man own na waoo
tell am as e dey go | | |
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Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / 2 nurses in court over abortion |
on: 22-02-2012 09:24 PM
| Two nurses on Wednesday appeared before an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly performing an illegal abortion on a 23-year- old woman. The accused, Marian Adekunle (46) and Blessing Udoh (23) are facing a two-count charge of conspiracy and performing abortion. Prosecuting police officer, Eshiet Eshiet, told the court that the accused performed the illegal abortion on one Dorothy Effiong on December 23, 2011 at No 9, Ayinde St. Iju-Ishaga, Agege, residence of Udoh, resulting in complications. He said that the offence committed was contrary to Section 409 and 145 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Lagos State 2011. The nurses pleaded not guilty. Chief Magistrate Oyindamola Ogala granted each of the accused N500,000 bail with two sureties each in like sum and adjourned the case till March 20. (NAN) | | |
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Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / 15 children raped in Gombe in January & February, says Child Protection Network |
on: 22-02-2012 09:17 PM
| The Child Protection Network (CPN) says more than 15 children have been raped between January and Februrary in Gombe State. Mrs. Fatima Birma, the Legal Adviser of the Network in the state, disclosed this in an interview in Gombe on Wednesday. Birma said that most of the victims were between the ages of six and 14. “Rape is becoming something else in the state, the Society and other people need to stand up and do something about it, because just from January to February now we have more than 15 cases of rape. When you look at them just small children from the age of 9,6, 14 – just children.” She said the widespread cases of rape in the state had reached the level that needed people to embark on prayer in the Mosques and Churches. “We need to go back to God, and to preach those things in our mosques, in our churches and to talk about it seriously to the followers, because the rate at which it is going is beyond our thinking. “You can imagine a two year old being raped by forty something years old what do you say to that.” Birma further called on parents to report any case of rape to the police and even go to court to seek redress. “Parents should make sure that they go to the court; they should report the matter to the police and the appropriate things to be done, should be done, like going to the hospital, examining the child immediately.” | | | |