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Singer and actor Tyrese Gibson held a benefit concert to help raise awareness about the school girls kidnapped in the Chibok area of Borno state. The event tagged – For Our Girls in Nigeria, was held in Los Angeles on Friday 30th May 2014. Tyrese says he was inspired by First Lady Michelle Obama "to do something". All proceeds from the event is going to UNICEF who will send the money directly to the families of the girls. Vin Diesel, Terrence Jenkins and Ludacris, were some of celebrities at the event. While speaking at the show, Stevie Wonder called Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau "a weak piece of…"

Nigerian Maimuna Abdullahi, aged 14, who made world headlines this 2014 when she fled her physically abusive marital home after a year of marriage, in order to finish her education.] In its latest report on child marriage, published this July 2014, UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund projects that Nigeria will have the highest number of child brides by 2050. There are currently more than 700 million women alive today were married before their 18th birthday and more than one in three (about 250 million) entered into union before age 15, the report states. Boys are also married as children, but girls are disproportionately affected. In Nigeria Although child marriage has seen a steady decline in Nigeria, UNICEF predicts that due to population growth, the rise in number of child marriages will not be offset. Facts & Figures on Child Marriage in Nigeria " "…girls are often married to considerably older men. In Mauritania and Nigeria, more than ...

Article written by Charly Boy. Read below..... Oh God! Why was I born in this neck of the woods? See how low my country has sank, demeaning our value as human beings, destroying our image as greed and corruption destroys everything we hold sacred. See how it drives the youths crazily into the uncertain life of crime, dispossessing the creative and talented youths of their dreams and discrediting their imagination. Haba, God, why? As Nigerians, what are we really good for? Were we born to be haunted and taunted?" I don't know what drives us but were we created to be a sub. Like you create two versions of something and see which one would thrive more in the habitat it would be placed. It seems the Africans (Nigerians) are failing the test and soon would be wiped out from existence. Why have we remained a consumer nation, can't even produce nothing, even the few who can are not encouraged. We are so backward it troubles me. Even if the western world ...