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    ‘On July 20, 2008, a body was spotted in Khajeri village and preliminary investigation revealed that she was Promila, who was five months pregnant then. The girl was brutally put to death by her very own father Jaswant and brother Sunil. Both sanitation workers, the accused apparently first strangulated Promila and then bludgeoned her with a stone. To mislead investigators, they poured acid on the deceased’s face and tore her clothes to indicate she was rape and then killed. However, medical reports nailed their lie and suggested she

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    I don’t know about you, but paying mothers to attend ante-natal classes in a country like Nigeria that’s rife with intelligent and abundant human resource who all think corruption is the best form of making money, that finding ways to siphon money anyway possible is the status quo, doesn’t seem like the cleverest way to reduce maternal mortality.

    Granted this idea makes quite a lot of sense. It’s worked in some countries with education and improving family planning and child spacing in India, but Nigeria isn’t India. Nigeria is …

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    Considering the months of preparation prior to the actual event of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development: you know, the incalculable hours, days, months activists from fields spanning climate change, women’s rights, poverty alleviation and even religious institutions spent planning, deciding. The buzz of excitement from the lucky sods who could afford to attend the conference; the plastered smiles on faces of the unfortunates, like me, who could not attend due to “extenuating circumstances” and “previous engagement” one would think, or at the very least, have hoped that …

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    Health is a key component for all. Statistics show that nearly one third of Nigeria’s total population, totaling about 148.1 million is between the ages of 10 to 24 years. Nigeria’s adolescent sizeable share of the population makes them integral to the country’s social economic development.

    Nigeria development has compromised sexual and reproductive health issues and services making young people vulnerable to sexually transmitted infections (STI) and unintended pregnancy. However many organizations are working to improve adolescent reproductive and sexual heath through advocacy and prevention programming.

    Reproductive and sexual …

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    I often wonder about sex after pregnancy, so here are some facts:

    Pregnancy does not mean the end to sexual desire, before or after child birth, yes women do experience pain during labor how ever for some times after delivering a baby, some women experience pain and this can be very distressing.

    This is particularly after first and second babies. Painful sex after child birth varies from women to women and can occur if caused by the general trauma to the vaginal area during childbirth, or cut during the …

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    I was part of the just concluded Internatonal Youth Speak Out (IYSO) YAG training dated 16th-18th April 2013 here in Abuja, Nigeria.

    The training aimed at building the capacity of the Youth Advocacy Group (YAG) council to advance the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) agenda for young people in Nigeria and  Internationally.

    As one of the members of the YAG I was able to learn so many thing about Advocacy and most importantly for me,the power of new media  and how it can be used to create …

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    So far So good. The International Youth Speak Out(IYSO) advocacy training was a BLAST!!!  Getting to know more about how I can use the new media to make a change and pass on knowledgeable, reasonable, information, and ideas by Kikelomo Taiwo (Kiki). It was very inspiring to hear from her and she did change my perspective towards how to maximize new media.

    I also got a clearer understanding about Advocacy. For example, I learned that, “Advocacy is an ongoing process aimed at attitudinal change, actions,policies, and laws by influencing …