Tag: CHILD MARRIAGE
Minister Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye moves to stop house speaker from marrying off...
Minister of women affairs Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye said she has petitioned the police and sought a court injunction to halt the plan of speaker of...
Ese Oruru, Bayelsa girl abducted and forced into marriage in Kano,...
Ese Oruru, the Bayelsa girl who was abducted as a teenager and forced into marriage in Kano, is now studying in a university, former...
Idahosa’s wife knocks Pete Edochie, says actor’s father practised child marriage
Preacher Laurie Idahosa has knocked Nollywood veteran Pete Edochie after he revealed that his father married his mother when she was 15.
The veteran had...
Senator Olujimi rejects voting rights for married underage girls
Senator Biodun Olujimi says she is not in support of any proposal seeking voting powers for underage married girls.
PUNCH reported last week that the...
15-year-old runs to Ekiti from Plateau to escape child marriage
A teenage girl has fled from her home town in Plateau State to Ekiti State to escape being married off, a group of lawyers...
UNICEF solicits traditional, religious leaders’ support to end child marriage
The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday, called on religious and traditional leaders in Kaduna state to support the campaign against child marriage...
Nigerian child brides on sale on Facebook – Report
Child brides are now being advertised on Facebook in Becheve community of Obanliku, Cross River State, Daily Beast has reported.
Obanliku,
a local government in Cross...
Shan George condemns religion supporting child marriage
Nollywood actress Shan George has expressed displeasure at any religion or culture that encourages child marriage.
The 48-year-old expressed her view in an Instagram post...
Nigerians sign petition against 70-year-old who married 15-year-old girl
A Nigerian Jacobu Eleyinbo has begun a petition to the United Nations against child marriage and girl child rape in Northern Nigeria.
Mr Eleyinbo started...
Misfit: Yinka Quadri, Ayo Mogaji, others go to war against child...
Nollywood actress, Kofoworola Akinlaja, will on Sunday, March 4 premiere her movie Aito (Misfit) dedicated to the fight against child marriage in Africa.
Starring the...