NIGERIA: FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION -NIGERIA RANKS THIRD HIGHEST GLOBALLY WITH 19.9 MILLION SURVIVORS

The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, says with an estimated 19.9 million survivors, Nigeria accounts for the third highest number of women and girls who have undergone Female Genital Mutilation, FGM, globally. In a statement in commemoration of the International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM, the global organization cautioned that FGM was on the rise among young Nigerian girls aged 0-14. According to UNICEF it had become a source of worry that the "rates have risen from 16.9 per cent in 2013 to 19.2 percent in 2018."