Early Marriage? By Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu
Here is one of the most informed articles since the debate on child marriage broke. It is a trending post on Nasir El-Rufai's Facebook wall. A virus is a small infectious agent replicates only inside the living cells.Viruses infect all types of organisms, from animals and plants to bacteria. Since 1892 when Dmitri Ivanovsky described a non-bacterial pathogen infecting tobacco, about 5,000 viruses have been described in detail. They can be found in every ecosystem on Earth and are the most abundant type of biological entity. Of late, virus have found a heavenly host in the Nigerian social media network. In minutes,a concept can go viral,permeating every corner of the world.This trend can be greatly beneficial, but also deadly dangerous. On this particular occasion I find it dangerous. In the last 48hrs, there has been an outcry on social media about a bill in the Nigerian Senate to legalise child marriage. The bone of contention simply ' Instead, they gave a legislative seal of ...