Please don't add this to Guinness Book

The World Health Organisation, WHO, has said 77 percent of women in Nigeria use skin-lightening products, the world’s highest percentage. The figure compares with 59 percent in Togo, and 27 percent in Senegal.

The WHO report said the reasons for this are varied but most people said they use skin-lighteners because they want “white skin”.

WHO also said skin bleaching comes with hazardous health consequences. The dangers associated with the use of toxic compounds for skin bleaching include, blood cancers such as leukemia and cancers of the liver and kidneys, as well as severe skin conditions. It said hardcore bleachers use illegal ointments containing toxins like mercury, a metal that blocks production of melanin, which gives the skin its colour, but can also be toxic.

The report said in many parts of Africa, lighter-skinned women are considered more beautiful and believed to be more successful and likely to find marriage. It also said it is not only women who are obsessed with bleaching their skins. Some men too are involved in the practice.

WHO investigation said lightening creams are not effectively regulated in Nigeria where even roadside vendors sell tubes and plastic bags of powders and ointments from cardboard boxes stacked along sidewalks in market districts. Many of the tubes are unlabelled as to their actual ingredients.

Qatar based Al Jazeera also reported that business is booming for shops selling skin-lightening products. A trader said, “About 90 percent of my clients come asking for skin whitening products,” adding “I sell it to them and give advice on what product is best for them and how to use them.”

Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/06/nigerian-women-lead-in-skin-bleaching-who/

Niger no dey carry last.

Goodluck is working. 2015 reward.

AND I HATE ANYTHING THAT IS NOT BLACK.

WHO and their yeye research.

why na negative things aljazera tv lyk reporting abt nigeria...plus...no be lie dem tok shaaa

Black Bold and Beautiful.

Jealous baskards.Na lie jor.

What is the beauty in bleached skin? Where the users are pale in complexion and have a network of green veins cascading their skin.not to mention the patches of colors that appear on the skin with prolonged usage.please let's all be wise.dark or chocolate skin in beautiful if that's what you're blessed with

9ja Babes No de carry last at all.

Naaaaaaaaiiiiijaaaaaaa

Some men too are involved in the practice

See what Alao Akala has caused Nigerian men now.

Nigeria does not have demographic or biometric database, so not even the Nigerian census board knows the number of Nigerians in this country as a fact. So how did World Health gather their statistics ?

If you confirm very well na men dey cause am...
is michelle obama white..
you don't cherish what you av until you loss it(melanin)
but my question to many is, why is it that the white never cherish being black..
nigerian will alway lnbibe sumtin bad.

*in idirs abdul karim voice* Naija my country

e mandman: why na negative things aljazera tv lyk reporting abt nigeria..shaaa

Na Boko brothers...in solidarity
I'm not surprise at all

The reality is that light-skinned females are more attractive

Everybody likes ice-cream laps

jackbauersballs: The reality is that light-skinned females are more attractive

Everybody likes ice-cream laps

But black is beautiful although I am light skinned.

Which country is the highest producer of bleaching creames? Or they don't rate production, only consumption. Thses Oyibo people sef, they will produce nonsense and blame the consumers of the nonsense for consuming the nonsense they produced? Nonsense Oyibo people with their nonsense rating.

Bisi omo logbalogba dino melaye, moji olaiya,sola sobowale.sikira sindodo,mosun filani,fathia and saheed balogun,rita dominic,sola kosoko etc endless list of low esteem, inferior complex plagued individuals

Billyonaire: Nigeria does not have demographic or biometric database, so not even the Nigerian census board knows the number of Nigerians in this country as a fact. So how did World Health gather their statistics ?

When world bank praised your president with the same irrational statistics,you dance to their ego.Now they are telling you what you know exist in Nigeria,you are bad-mouthing them.

Its really pathetc..I have a bbm contact who is always sending bc's on bleaching cream n whitening creams that she sells.

I asked her if she wasn't proud of her God-given color,.she said who cares dt so long as pple patronise her.

These things have side-effects..use shea-butter and ur natural skin tone would shimmer.

Bro you too like

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AB$I:
Bisi omo logbalogba dino melaye, moji olaiya,sola sobowale.sikira sindodo,mosun filani,fathia and saheed baloy gun,rita dominic,sola kosoko etc endless list of low esteem, inferior complex plagued individuals

Those statistics ain't true, though I agree that a lotta Nigerian women engage in skin bleaching.

Billyonaire: Nigeria does not have demographic or biometric database, so not even the Nigerian census board knows the number of Nigerians in this country as a fact. So how did World Health gather their statistics ?

d is d excuse you guys keep giving..am not saying dey are rit,but y didn't dey pick anoda african country but Nigeria all the time and u tink dia is no iota of truth in it??

the w.h.o has not visited congo kinshasha.