Friday, 27 May Children's Day 2022 in Nigeria: Nigeria celebrates Children’s Day

Twenty-Seventh May, my heart goes out to some girls aged 18 or younger in some Lagos schools. One of them was in JSS 3 when she stopped school. She was a brilliant girl from my interaction with her. She was caught in a web of peer group, had a boyfriend in the block of flats opposite where she lived as a house girl with her madam, a teacher in another school. She  used to sneak out at night to the next flat, often contracted STD from her boyfriend and was sent back to the village, to be re-united with her mother who has other children by different men. I will call her Girl E.

I wish to call another girl Girl  G. Her story is trending in an extended family which does not yet know what to do about her. What is coming to light is that she and her father had been seeing for some time before she was 19. Father and daughter were lucky the chicken did not come home to roost before now. Then, in September last year, they saw again, and the feathers flew this time. She was unable to register for the WAEC examination last September, and she missed JAMB examination of two weeks ago. I will return to the story of Girl G