A researcher and medical practitioner, Dr. Godwin Uwaoma, has stirred the hornet's nest with his declaration that girls from Abia State, especially those in Aba, engage in active sexual activities from the age of 10.
According
to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Dr. Uwaoma who is the Chairman of
Thematic Working Group at the Nigerian Faith Based Advisory Council for
AIDS (NFACA), said this assertion was a result of a research his group
started in 2014, which also means that the girls stand a higher chance
of contracting the HIV virus.
The researcher added that the study was conducted to find out the awareness of preventive measures among youths in the secondary schools for the Department of Public Health at the Imo State University.
Dr.
Uwaoma spoke at a lecture organized by the Aba chapter of the Nigerian
Medical Association (NMA) to mark their week, calling for prevention
rather than cure which was unavailable for HIV cases.
“We
discovered that some girls in Aba start sexual activities at the age 10
to 12 and that at the age of 12, girls in Aba have regular boyfriends
with whom they agree to have sex regularly.
This
was not known before. Usually, HIV prevention was targeted at age 15
upward but we now know that before 15 they have become sexually active.
And
there is a lot of difference between when you are forced into it and
you remove yourself thereafter and when at this age you now have a
regular partner.
That was what we discovered and it is not normal but an aberration but obviously the fact is there.”
He,
therefore, urged the students to desist from watching pornographic
films, playing sexual games with opposite sex and keeping bad friends to
save them from sexual temptations.
By Ugochukwu Alaribe
ABA—In a bid to harness indigenous skills and promote ingenuity in the
area of technological innovations, Abia state government has commenced
plans to establish a university of Industry, Science and Technology in
Aba.
Inaugurating the committee which will fine-tune the framework for the
new university, Chairman of the Governing Council of the Abia State
Polytechnic, Aba, Dr. Chuku Wachukwu, said the inauguration of the
committee marked a formal commencement of series of deliberations and
development of the necessary frameworks and linkages for the
establishment of the University.
Wachukwu, who assured of the state government’s support, added that the
establishment of the university had become necessary in order to key
into the various opportunities that exist for the sustainable growth and
development of the state considering her abundant raw materials and
technological skills.
According to him, “The establishment of this university will provide the
requisite manpower for the state and country in the areas of industry,
science and technology.
”It will also create a platform for the development of indigenous
manpower, promotion of ingenuity and creativity. The economic profile of
Abia state holds tremendous promise and opportunities for investment
and industrial development in the area of crude oil exploration, gas
production, agriculture and solid minerals.”
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/10/abia-set-university-industry/
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