Please tell SENATORS representing your Senatorial Districts that Nigerian Girl-Child Needs a PEN And Not PENIS

...Any religion that doesn't address morals
and culture isn't of God- Rev (Dr) Martin
Luther King (Jnr.)
Most times we want to have a constitution
amendment process, constitution review or
an issue of general importance, I have
keenly understudied that our major problem
has been Religious Extremity and
regionalism in the name of power conquest.
The passage of the Girl-Child Law where
every little girl will have some rights during
her childhood should ordinary be the bane
of discussion, that is, the nationalisation of
such, vis-a-vis the Gender-Based Violence
Law, should be aggressively canvassed, but
now, a major setback has been caused by
our Nation's Senate in a religious familial
arrangement.
Coming to take a look at it from the
academic point of view, a 13-year Old child
isn't grown, irrespective of the fact that she
may/might have had her menstruation. The
cervix of a gal of 13, isn't matured for sex,
infact, the womb is still susceptible to
compromise and abuse of foetus. In those
days, it was reported that our great great
grand mothers had their first menstruation
in their husbands house, and in the later-
part of the story, we hear that she gave
birth 15times and only 3 is alive. That's to
say that the womb has compromised the
foetus and an abuse of the girl's genitals.
Let's in furtherance, address this from the
point of morals. How reasonable will a 27-
year old man in his right sense of mind
decide to marry a 13years old girl not to talk
of above 30years.
Am not against Islam as a religion because
we are all convinced about our different
religions and which we think we should
adopt, but my problem on policies like this
is basically 2:
Religious Extremity and Regionalism.
The quest of passing such a terrible clause
in our new constitution shouldn't be
mistaken for religious attentiveness but
fanaticism and extremism.
We extremise things in this country and
majorly from a particular region who will
always want to prove we are ontop of the
situation.
I used to believe from what I have read in
books that in True Federalism, Religion isn't
a prominent Factor. A nation that preaches
federalism and yet debates "our religion
says" is only been fanatical.
I have been saying this but people will not
want to listen that our thoughts,
perspectives, orientation, culture, religion,
origin and history isn't helping the co-
existence of the nation, even though we
preach one Nigeria.
I believe we can still turn things around with
our protest votes. Let's all sign the protest
register against the passage of the Senate
on 13-year Child Marriage (Marriage of
Minors).
It's like legitimizing the abuse of the
nation's little girls.
Speaking on behalf of my little daughter who is less than 13 years and could be abused on
that clause.

Can Northern Nigeria ever produce female icons like Okonjo Eweala or Dora Akunyuli, Ezekwuezele? When all their girls would have been married to old men in the name of religion. We dey watch!!!

As far as I am concerned Yeriman Bakura and every senator who voted to circumvent the laws prohibiting marriage to underaged girls are statutory rapists. These perverts have their adult daughters at posh schools abroad and they come here to molest the children of the poor. I have not heard the idiots uphold paying zakat which will go a long way to alleviating the excruciating burden caused by the poverty which they foisted on the polity in the first place. Or even putting up structures which will help to bring education and health care to the poor. May Allah begin to judge these rascals here on earth and on to the hereafter. These men are beasts and know nothing about Islam. They never follow injunctions that will better the lot of the Ummah. They misinterpret injunctions as long as it suits their caprices. Insha Allah on yaum al haqq, the holy Prophet will cast them out of us.
-Zainab Abba Haliru wrote on her facebook wall https://m.facebook.com/zhaliru?v=timeline&refid=17

Former Vice-President of Nigeria from 1999
to 2007 Turakin Adamawa, Atiku Abubakar
has added his voice to the raging
controversy around the Nigerian Senate’s
subtle approval for child marriage. Atiku
expressed his unreserved opinion via his
Twitter page @atiku. Some of his tweets on
the issue go thus:
“As a father, I’ve never given out my
daughters in marriage before university
graduation. It’s a personal decision.I had
earlier stated my personal choices on the
child marriage issue. I have always
supported our women and children. For
avoidance of doubt, I do not support any
constitutional provision which creates
ambiguities about the age of consent .I
strongly support strengthening the
constitution to protect all citizens from
abuse; men, women, girls and boys”

What Was The Age of Ummul Mo'mineen
Ayesha (May Allah be pleased with her)
When She Married To Prophet Muhammad
(Peace be upon him)?
By
Imam Chaudhry
Some people believe that Ayesha (May Allah
be pleased with her) was nine years old at
the time of her marriage with Mohammad
(peace be upon him) was consummated.
The age of Ayesha (ra) has been grossly mis-
reported in the ahadith. Not only that, I
think that the narratives reporting this event
are not only highly unreliable but also that
on the basis of other historical data, the
event reported, is quite an unlikely
happening. Let us look at the issue from an
objective standpoint. My reservations in
accepting the narratives, on the basis of
which, Ayeshas (ra) age at the time of her
marriage with the Prophet (pbuh) is held to
be nine years are:
Most of these narratives are reported only
by Hisham ibn `urwah reporting on the
authority of his father. An event as well
known as the one being reported, should
logically have been reported by more people
than just one, two or three.
It is quite strange that no one from
Medinah, where Hisham ibn `urwah lived
the first seventy one years of his life has
narrated the event, even though in Medinah
his pupils included people as well known as
Malik ibn Anas. All the narratives of this
event have been reported by narrators from
Iraq, where Hisham is reported to have had
shifted after living in Medinah for seventy
one years.
Tehzibu'l-tehzib, one of the most well
known books on the life and reliability of the
narrators of the traditions of the Prophet
(pbuh) reports that according to Yaqub ibn
Shaibah: "narratives reported by Hisham are
reliable except those that are reported
through the people of Iraq". It further states
that Malik ibn Anas objected on those
narratives of Hisham which were reported
through people of Iraq. (vol 11, pg 48 - 51)
Mizanu'l-ai`tidal, another book on the
narrators of the traditions of the Prophet
(pbuh) reports that when he was old,
Hisham's memory suffered quite badly. (vol
4, pg 301 - 302)
According to the generally accepted
tradition, Ayesha (ra) was born about eight
years before Hijrah. But according to
another narrative in Bukhari (kitabu'l-tafse
er) Ayesha (ra) is reported to have said that
at the time Surah Al-Qamar, the 54th
chapter of the Qur'an, was revealed, "I was
a young girl". The 54th surah of the Qur'an
was revealed nine years before Hijrah.
According to this tradition, Ayesha (ra) had
not only been born before the revelation of
the referred surah, but was actually a young
girl (jariyah), not an infant (sibyah) at that
time. Obviously, if this narrative is held to be
true, it is in clear contradiction with the
narratives reported by Hisham ibn `urwah. I
see absolutely no reason that after the
comments of the experts on the narratives of
Hisham ibn `urwah, why we should not
accept this narrative to be more accurate.
According to a number of narratives, Ayesha
(ra) accompanied the Muslims in the battle
of Badr and Uhud. Furthermore, it is also
reported in books of hadith and history that
no one under the age of 15 years was
allowed to take part in the battle of Uhud. All
the boys below 15 years of age were sent
back. Ayesha's (ra) participation in the battle
of Badr and Uhud clearly indicate that she
was not nine or ten years old at that time.
After all, women used to accompany men to
the battle fields to help them, not to be a
burden on them.
According to almost all the historians Asma
(ra), the elder sister of Ayesha (ra) was ten
years older than Ayesha (ra). It is reported
in Taqri'bu'l-tehzi'b as well as Al-bidayah
wa'l-nihayah that Asma (ra) died in 73 hijrah
when she was 100 years old. Now, obviously
if Asma (ra) was 100 years old in 73 hijrah
she should have been 27 or 28 years old at
the time of hijrah. If Asma (ra) was 27 or 28
years old at the time of hijrah, Ayesha (ra)
should have been 17 or 18 years old at that
time. Thus, Ayesha (ra), if she got married in
1 AH (after hijrah) or 2 AH, was between 18
to 20 years old at the time of her marriage.
Tabari in his treatise on Islamic history,
while mentioning Abu Bakr (ra) reports that
Abu Bakr had four children and all four were
born during the Jahiliyyah -- the pre Islamic
period. Obviously, if Ayesha (ra) was born in
the period of jahiliyyah, she could not have
been less than 14 years in 1 AH -- the time
she most likely got married.
According to Ibn Hisham, the historian,
Ayesha (ra) accepted Islam quite some time
before Umar ibn Khattab (ra). This shows
that Ayesha (ra) accepted Islam during the
first year of Islam. While, if the narrative of
Ayesha's (ra) marriage at seven years of age
is held to be true, Ayesha (ra) should not
have been born during the first year of
Islam.
Tabari has also reported that at the time
Abu Bakr planned on migrating to Habshah
(8 years before Hijrah), he went to Mut`am
-- with whose son Ayesha (ra) was engaged
-- and asked him to take Ayesha (ra) in his
house as his son's wife. Mut`am refused,
because Abu Bakr had embraced Islam, and
subsequently his son divorced Ayesha (ra).
Now, if Ayesha (ra) was only seven years old
at the time of her marriage, she could not
have been born at the time Abu Bakr
decided on migrating to Habshah. On the
basis of this report it seems only reasonable
to assume that Ayesha (ra) had not only
been born 8 years before hijrah, but was
also a young lady, quite prepared for
marriage.
According to a narrative reported by Ahmad
ibn Hanbal, after the death of Khadijah (ra),
when Khaulah (ra) came to the Prophet
(pbuh) advising him to marry again, the
Prophet (pbuh) asked her regarding the
choices she had in her mind. Khaulah said:
"You can marry a virgin (bikr) or a woman
who has already been married (thayyib)".
When the Prophet (pbuh) asked about who
the virgin was, Khaulah proposed Ayesha's
(ra) name. All those who know the Arabic
language, are aware that the word "bikr" in
the Arabic language is not used for an
immature nine year old girl. The correct
word for a young playful girl, as stated
earlier is "Jariyah". "Bikr" on the other hand,
is used for an unmarried lady, and obviously
a nine year old is not a "lady".
According to Ibn Hajar, Fatimah (ra) was five
years older than Ayesha (ra). Fatimah (ra) is
reported to have been born when the
Prophet (pbuh) was 35 years old. Thus, even
if this information is taken to be correct,
Ayesha (ra) could by no means be less than
14 years old at the time of hijrah, and 15 or
16 years old at the time of her marriage.
These are some of the major points that go
against accepting the commonly known
narrative regarding Ayesha's (ra) age at the
time of her marriage.
Neither was it an Arab tradition to give away
girls in marriage at an age as young as nine
or ten years, nor did the Prophet (pbuh)
marry Ayesha (ra) at such a young age. The
people of Arabia did not object to this
marriage, because it never happened in the
manner it has been narrated.

''Nigeria has many uncountable problems
and none of them is early marriage. As a
matter of fact early marriage the solution to
about half of our problems. For those who
wonder if I can give my daughter(s) out in
marriage at the age of 9 or 13, I tell you
most honestly, I can give her out at the age
of 6 if I want to and its not your business.
This is because I am a Muslim and I follow
the example of the best of mankind,
Muhammad ﺻَﻠَّﻰ ﺍﻟﻠَّﻪُ ﻋَﻠَﻴْﻪِ ﻭَﺳَﻠَّﻢَ .
In Islam, marriage is not only about sex, it is
about family and helping one another in
achieving their goals, which is the attainment
of Paradise.
In Islam, a girl can be given out in marriage
as early as 6 years old, but consummation of
the marriage can only be done when the girl
becomes physically mature and she gives
her consent to it because unlike English law,
it is not permissible for a man to rape his
wife in Shari'ah Law.
So what can anybody tell me?
~ I live in a city where young girls at the age
of 12 have already became serial fornicators
and cannot count the number of man
they've had sex with.
~ I live in a City where primary school
children disvirgin themselves behind toilets
on Valentine day.
~ I live in a city where young girls flood the
street at night looking for men that would
give them N500 to have sex with them.
~ I live in a city where parents send their
daughters out overseas to prostitute and
send dollars down.
~ I live in a City where Government officials
pick undergraduates from University car
parks with Coastal Buses to wild sex parties.
~ I live in a city where abortion is so
common that even a Chemist shore owner
can perform abortion with just N2,500.
These are your daughters, and this should
worry you and not Yerima's private matters.
So ask me again why I support early
marriage and I will slap the Jinn out of your
head''.
- Senator Ahmad Sani Yarima
MY RESPONSE TO SENATOR AHMED SANI
AND HIS SUPPORTERS-
''If I had any doubts that the self-confessed
paedophile Senator Ahmed Sani was of the
devil before today I have long since shed
those doubts. Ahmed is not only evil but he
is also a very sick man. In any civilised
society he would be either be behind bars
or he would be in a mental hospital.
We as a people need to protect the girl-child
from self-righteous sexual predators like
him. He not only thrives on under-age sex
and child rape but he boasts about it and
seeks to justify it with his islamic faith. He
forgets that in 95 per cent of muslim
countries in the world today child-marriage,
child-sex, child-porn and paedophilia are
specifically banned and outlawed by law. Are
those people and nations not muslims too?
Is he a better muslim than them? Are the
muslims of southern Nigeria in yorubaland
who have collectively refused to indulge in
vile practices like paedophilia, child-
marriage, child-rape and child-sex and who
consider such things to be an abomoniation
not muslims too? As far as I am concerned
they are the true muslims and they are far
better and more civilised than Ahmed Sani's
brand.
It is time to stand up to this monster called
Yerima and those that think like him once
and for all no matter what the consequences
are. First he introduced political sharia into
Nigerian politics in 2001 which, a few years
later, resulted in the meteroric rise of islamic
fundamentalism in the north and Boko
Haram. Now he seeks to introduce and
legitimise child sex and paedophilia in our
country by propogating and peddling a false
interpretation of islam and bringing that
beautiful faith into disrepute and
opprobium. Nothing sickens me more than
this man and those that think like him and
be rest assured that I and many others will
call him out on this one.
We must all stand up and say ''NO MORE'' to
this rubbish and sheer wickedness and that
''ENOUGH IS ENOUGH''. We must all join our
hands together and seek to protect the
Nigerian girl-child whether that girl-child be
a christian, a muslim, a pagan, a northerner
or a southerner. As long as she is a human
being and she is a Nigerian we must and we
will speak for her, fight for her and uphold
her right to be treated as a human being
and not to be subjected to rape and sex
abuse. This is a divine obligation because
the Holy Bible says that we must ''resist evil''
and ''defend the weak and vulnerable'' that
are amongst us. And in this case we will.
Our children will not be abused and
destroyed by these monsters who are lusting
after them''- CHIEF FEMI FANI-KAYODE

''If I had any doubts that the self-confessed
paedophile Senator Ahmed Sani was of the
devil before today I have long since shed
those doubts. Ahmed is not only evil but he
is also a very sick man. In any civilised
society he would be either be behind bars
or he would be in a mental hospital.
We as a people need to protect the girl-child
from self-righteous sexual predators like
him. He not only thrives on under-age sex
and child rape but he boasts about it and
seeks to justify it with his islamic faith. He
forgets that in 95 per cent of muslim
countries in the world today child-marriage,
child-sex, child-porn and paedophilia are
specifically banned and outlawed by law. Are
those people and nations not muslims too?
Is he a better muslim than them? Are the
muslims of southern Nigeria in yorubaland
who have collectively refused to indulge in
vile practices like paedophilia, child-
marriage, child-rape and child-sex and who
consider such things to be an abomoniation
not muslims too? As far as I am concerned
they are the true muslims and they are far
better and more civilised than Ahmed Sani's
brand.
It is time to stand up to this monster called
Yerima and those that think like him once
and for all no matter what the consequences
are. First he introduced political sharia into
Nigerian politics in 2001 which, a few years
later, resulted in the meteroric rise of islamic
fundamentalism in the north and Boko
Haram. Now he seeks to introduce and
legitimise child sex and paedophilia in our
country by propogating and peddling a false
interpretation of islam and bringing that
beautiful faith into disrepute and
opprobium. Nothing sickens me more than
this man and those that think like him and
be rest assured that I and many others will
call him out on this one.
We must all stand up and say ''NO MORE'' to
this rubbish and sheer wickedness and that
''ENOUGH IS ENOUGH''. We must all join our
hands together and seek to protect the
Nigerian girl-child whether that girl-child be
a christian, a muslim, a pagan, a northerner
or a southerner. As long as she is a human
being and she is a Nigerian we must and we
will speak for her, fight for her and uphold
her right to be treated as a human being
and not to be subjected to rape and sex
abuse. This is a divine obligation because
the Holy Bible says that we must ''resist evil''
and ''defend the weak and vulnerable'' that
are amongst us. And in this case we will.
Our children will not be abused and
destroyed by these monsters who are lusting
after them''- CHIEF FEMI FANI-KAYODE

I just signed the petition " United Nations:
Stop The Nigerian Senate From Making
Under-Age Marriage The Law!" on
Change.org.
It's important. Will you sign it too? Here's
the link: http://www.change.org/petitions/united-nations-stop-the-nigerian-senate-from-making-under-age-marriage-the-law?share_id=FgvBNwKoum&utm_campaign=signature_receipt&utm_medium=email&utm_source=share_petition

Thanks!
Pls rebroadcast

It's a pity we have idiotics fathers and personalities alike in our Senate knowingly fully well that they are right there bcos we put them in to discuss pertinent issues that will improve our fallen economy and to better the survival of our morals and dignity. I weep for this country, and such a shame.....

This is time for all nigerians to stand up and say NO to this

This is time for all nigerians to stand up and say NO to this

underage marriage is worst than same sex
marriage.
In same sex Marriage, two matured adults are involved taking their own actions and accepting their responsibilities. while in underage marriage, only one party is matured and therefore imbalance to sign a marriage contract. The helpless child in
question doesn't even know what she want, she is only forced into it..
If the Senate has approved underage marriage, then, they should also revisit the
issue of same sex marriage and approve it..
Goodbye to Morality in Nigeria.

our leaders hv loss thre brain

Dear "SINators", if she can't vote during
(your) ELECTION, then she's too young to
stand your ERECTION.

Pass this till it gets to all those seated in
power of authority,CAPITAL NO to child
marriage. In Nigeria, It is illegal to drink b4
18yrs, drive b4 18yrs, watch porn
b4 18yrs,too young to vote b4
18yrs, but legal to get married b4
18yrs.
Please note dat b4 18yrs she
needs a dictionary not DICK, give
her a pen not a PENIS, give her
money for textbook not for
ANTENATAL, she shld be playing
swell with friends, not watching a sick
pervert "SWELL" at her sight.
Ask her for books not her BOOBS,
give her good education not
EJACULATION, she shld be
watching ben 10 not going on ROUND 10.

they grow more balls than brains....stewpid leaders

Follow this link to see their horrible faces, Shameless Men! http://t.co/vb161HQU9J

Hum wat pain me most is dat my senetor is wit dis animal(ayo akintelure ondo central)i regret dat i vote dis useless man. Oloriburuku,oda,oponu,were,dindinrin,olosi

Gmailer wrote:

Pass this till it gets to all those seated in
power of authority,CAPITAL NO to child
marriage. In Nigeria, It is illegal to drink b4
18yrs, drive b4 18yrs, watch porn
b4 18yrs,too young to vote b4
18yrs, but legal to get married b4
18yrs.
Please note dat b4 18yrs she
needs a dictionary not DICK, give
her a pen not a PENIS, give her
money for textbook not for
ANTENATAL, she shld be playing
swell with friends, not watching a sick
pervert "SWELL" at her sight.
Ask her for books not her BOOBS,
give her good education not
EJACULATION, she shld be
watching ben 10 not going on ROUND 10.

but is this true?

I think the "SIN"ators should also change the marturity age of 18+ to 9+yrs to meet there sinful motives

Fred007 wrote:

Hum wat pain me most is dat my senetor is wit dis animal(ayo akintelure ondo central)i regret dat i vote dis useless man. Oloriburuku,oda,oponu,were,dindinrin,olosi

is like too much money they gt hv entr thre head.

All those 35 knuckled-head, educated-illiterate Senators passing 13 years girls, minors as and adult and eligible for marriage must be sick in the head and freaking crazy to say the least. The fact is that those good-for-nothing Senators who passed this bill had their daughters studing broad while they are here making useless laws that will not benefit the poor in any way - making law to keep the poor poorer. A sizeable percent of the girls between the age of 13 to 21 in the north can't not read or write, but instead of making law that will improve the likes of those and the living condition of Nigerians in general, they choose to promulgate a law that will not add any value to the system. This law will create more problem than it solve!! Nigerians is time to wise up and say no to illegality.

...Honestly...what do you expect from them?...they are not interested in the wellbeing of Nigerians...so they do as they're told and whatever'll favour their pockets...all their children are studying in schools abroad...so whateva happens to Nigerian children is not their business...but they tend to forget that whatever goes around comes around...

Don1 wrote:

...Honestly...what do you expect from them?...they are not interested in the wellbeing of Nigerians...so they do as they're told and whatever'll favour their pockets...all their children are studying in schools abroad...so whateva happens to Nigerian children is not their business...but they tend to forget that whatever goes around comes around...

Indeed, whatever goes around comes around!

What a shame to Nigerian Legislators. I wonder what legacy they want to live behind. Gone are the days when Nigerian senators speak for the masses. How can they pass such bills now when there are millions of problems facing ordinary man on the street? No job, road is bad, no power, corruption every here and there and yet they were unable to pass a bill that will solve one if not all of these common issue. I SHM for Nigeria.

ancl wrote:

Fred007 wrote:

Hum wat pain me most is dat my senetor is wit dis animal(ayo akintelure ondo central)i regret dat i vote dis useless man. Oloriburuku,oda,oponu,were,dindinrin,olosi

is like too much money they gt hv entr thre head.

Haba epe yi ti po ju now....But really they all deserved to be cursed. They are nothing but bunch of useless old fools who are after their selfish interest.