Nigeria Senate breaks silence!

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The Senate has defended its decision to retain a controversial section of the constitution that seems to support child marriage, asking Nigerians to be calm and understand that the section has nothing to do with marriage, but instead citizenship.

The Senate said Nigerians had nothing to fear as it will never support child marriage, a subject at the centre of the controversy over Section 29, subsection 4(b) of the constitution. “This has nothing to do with child marriage; we will never support child marriage,” said Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, who heads the review committee, said.
That section details guidelines for a Nigerian to renounce his or her citizenship. Part of the law says the person must be at least 18 years. But if the person is a woman and married, the section continues, she shall be deemed to be “of age”.

An attempt by the Senate last week to delete the second definition having to do with a married woman, as part of its ongoing constitutional amendment, failed after a member, Ahmed Yerima, claimed it was un-Islamic.
The failure has sparked intense public anger, one of the most sweeping, against a decision by the National Assembly in years.

Here is Tonto Dike's reply tho:

Latest on Finidi George

Former Nigerian international Finidi George has been appointed the coach of the U-16 side at his former club Real Mallorca of Spain.

George was part of a generation of Super Eagles players that are loved by majority of Nigerians who also have gathered great experience from being involved with top European sides.

Congratulations to him!!!

First Lady of Nigeria loses Mum: Photo

Mrs. Iwari-Oba, the mother of the wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, has died in a accident along Elele Road in Rivers State. She was on her way to Bayelsa State when the accident happened.

Reports are that her corpse was taken to Kpaiyama Mortuary by a team of policemen and a member representing Ogu Bolo State Constituency, Mr. Evans Bipi. Though, the police and the Federal Road Safety Commission in the state could not confirm the incident, an aide to Bipi said the First Lady’s mother died in a road accident, which occurred at about 4pm yesterday.

Karen Igho blasts fan that says she used a dildo in the Big Brother House: Calls him an idiot

When the gist was hot(as e dey hot) about Nando's STD, our Karen Igho tweeted--

 

then her fans started lashing and cursing

 *wipes tear

Zimbabwe Hospital Charges Women $5 In Hospital For Screaming During Labor

One can imagine the pains at childbirth, the screams, sweat, veins popping, tears and someone just bursts into the labor room and tells the woman to pay because the hospital is irritated at her noise making- awkward!

At a hospital in Zimbabwe, the Global Corruption Barometer, a group that campaigns against corruption, released its annual report, revealing that a Zimbabwe hospital exploits poor new mothers by charging them $5 every time they scream. The charge is said to be...

for ‘causing false alarm’, according to the report.

Zimbabwe is a poor country and is in economic and political turmoil, so this $5 cost is untenable in a country where $50 is one third of the average income and 95 percent of people in the country are unemployed.

Transparency International contacted the Deputy Minister in Zimbabwe, who ordered an investigation into the charges, and ordered that no additional fines be charged. However, the charge for giving birth at a hospital is still $50, far out of range for most women in the country. As it stands now, many of the women avoid hospitals altogether due to cost.

The group has now set up workshops in Zimbabwe to raise awareness about corruption. Sadly, Zimbabwe is not alone. According to the group’s report, more than a quarter of the world’s population has paid a bribe at least once.