“LAW alone cannot end FGM!” - Okoye Robinson C.
Female Genital Cutting (also known as Female Genital Mutilation *FGM*) in Nigeria accounts for the most female genital cutting/mutilation (FGM/C) cases worldwide. The Female Circumcision, or FGM, is the removal or alteration of female genitalia – it varies in severity from partial removal of the clitoris to complete removal of the clitoris and adjoining labia as well as the joining of both sides of the vulva together across the vagina. After the circumcision is complete, many experience severe bleeding, difficulty urinating, childbirth complications, infections, loss of sexual pleasure and in some cases, death. But the supporters of this practice are justifying it on much of the same grounds that the world support male circumcision, one said: “The uncircumcised clitoris and penis are considered homologous aesthetically and hygienically: Just as the male foreskin covers the head of the penis, the female foreskin covers the clitoral glands. Both, they argue, lead to build-up of