[enibaba]

Nigerian Virgin Girls, an association dedicated to promoting virtue among young ladies, celebrated 65 girls who have decided to abstain from sexual intercourse with the opposite sex, last Saturday. The young ladies, aged 16 and above, were presented with Virtuous Awards after being examined and confirmed virgins by a medical doctor. They also participated in beauty pageant tagged ‘Miss Virginity 2010.’ According to Adunni Adediran, founder of the association, the need to reduce promiscuity and other vices like abortion and sexually-transmitted diseases was responsible for setting up the association four years ago.

“We started this in order to reduce promiscuity...and all of the vices that send our children to early graves such as abortion, sex before marriage that cause diseases of all sorts and insanity that could be brought about by disappointment,” said Ms. Adediran.

“If a boyfriend disappoints you by jilting you after deflowering you, and this same boyfriend goes ahead to marry another person, insanity may result,” she said.

The poverty factor

Ms. Adediran blamed poverty and civilisation as reasons why virgins are not celebrated in the society by the younger generation.

“Civilisation is actually bringing us our doom. Also poverty could be a reason why we are no longer interested in keeping our tradition of virginity,” she said.

The event which took place within the premises of Surulere Local Government had the support of the local government chairman, who promised, through his representative, the free use of their facility for all the associations’ events. Elizabeth Falana, a 23 year old lady emerged winner of the pageant. Speaking at the event, Oluwatoyin Ojedimi, senior special adviser on religion to the Surulere Local Government, commended the ladies for their decency and advised them to remain virgins until they get married.

“I am proud to see all of you here expressing the fact that you are virgins,” she said. “Despite the peer pressure, despite the societal moral decadence, you still determine within yourself to maintain your virginity, your womanhood and be a woman of integrity. It is a thing of joy for you to marry as a virgin. Please maintain yourself.”

Government assistance

Olusegun Olushola, patron of the association and former Nigerian Ambassador to Ethiopia promised to meet with Babatunde Fashola, the Lagos State Governor in respect of the virgins and the association. “I will appeal to him myself for support for further education for all the girls and request for support for the organisation,” he said.

He further added that he was in support of the programme because of the good values it promotes. “It is a program that seeks to encourage young women in Nigeria in their teens and early twenties to keep themselves away from living with boys until they get married, on keeping their virginity and therefore living a healthy life. I’m in it for good behaviour, for good health, and that these younger people are willing to come forward to be tested by a doctor.”

Naheemdeen Ekemode, the medical doctor who examined the girls, said he used his expertise as a gynaecologist to ascertain that the ladies were virgins.

“I am trained as a gynaecologist to be able to examine a lady without defiling her and know that her hymen is intact,” he said.

While advising the girls to get married early in order to reduce the risk of infertility, he added that the programme which he has been supporting since its inception is apt in preventing young ladies from getting sexually transmitted diseases.

“It prevents them from getting infected with sexually transmitted diseases which cause a lot of complications for women and causes infertility and other problems for them,” said Dr. Ekemode.

“As a gynaecologist, we experience a lot of these young ladies come in with infertility, they’ve gotten married for more than one year and they can’t get pregnant.

“When we examine them, we find that they have fallopian tubes blockage. The only way is to avoid infection and this is one of the ways we can avoid all that. We also use it to discourage promiscuity and we thank God that we have achieved our aims for the past four years.”

[bamo]

Good concept.At least you wont contract HIV/Aids. Also, keeping your virginity does not make you a house wife material. I personally preferred the experienced one to the green horn. I cannot train.

[becks]

Thumbs up to those sisters, especially the teenagers. Resisting peer pressure alone is enough to be commended.
@Bamo: Procreation was God's idea, so no training is required

[GåЯ€†ん]

good job girls, its best to wait than to regret.

[Adini]

GåЯ€†ん, on 23 December 2010 - 01:25 AM, said:

good job girls, its best to wait than to regret.

This means: No HIV, NO BELE (Pregnancy), NO GONO-SYPHILIS and finally, NO SHOW FOR BOYS