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Tackling Ills of Female Genital Mutilation In Nigeria


Female genital mutilation otherwise known as female circumcision has over time been a public health issue with stakeholders proffering ways to deal with the seeming intractable phenomenon given our social and cultural dynamics.
Statistics show that over 200 million girls and women have undergone Female Genital Mutilation, (FGM) in Africa, Middle East and Asia. Most of these girls are between infancy and 15years. More than 3 million girls are estimated to be at risk for FGM annually and Nigeria is not unaffected.
This was one of the submissions at an online sensitization via zoom organized by the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ) Edo State Chapter on the ills of FGM. ....

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