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Nigeria urged to reduce child marriages - Features - Al Jazeera English

13.10.13

Nigeria urged to reduce child marriages - Features - Al Jazeera English: Child marriage - defined as a marital union with a person under the age of 18 - affects more girls in Nigeria than in all the countries of West Africa combined, according to a recent Ford Foundation study that assesses child marriage in the region’s sixteen countries.

Though it is technically unlawful in Nigeria, girls in some regions are sometimes married by age nine.

One girl, Maimuna, is determined not to be a child bride.

Maimuna (who did not want her last name published) is a teenaged girl from a rural village in northern Nigeria. A pink colored hijab surrounds her head and her voice is soft.

"The best gift any parent can give to their child is education," she says.


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