‘Marriage is not empowerment’: Uproar over mass wedding of Nigerian girls, some feared to be underage

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Nigeria’s women’s minister, Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye is leading the campaign to halt Friday’s mass wedding. ( Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye/Facebook) Nigeria’s women’s minister, who is leading the campaign to shelve Friday’s wedding, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that she had filed a court injunction to stop it. Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye said the wedding violates Nigeria’s Child Rights Acts and Violence Against […]

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Publish date : 2024-05-22 14:55:17

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