Published by admin at June 6, 2015 In just over a month that we celebrated Nigeria's leading steps in protecting the rights of the girl child by abolishing the culture of Female Genital Mutilation, making it a criminal offence, Nigeria has gone another 10 steps backwards in refuting what seemed like a progress in protecting the girl child. In passing a rather inconsistent sexual offence Bill, Nigeria senate has caused yet another controversy and confusion as the new bill makes 11 years the age of consent. We fail to comprehend what their definition of a child would mean.