Now that The Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi, has publicly advocated for a ban on marriage of women below 18 years in Nigeria. This could be the drop of water that will make up an ocean.
He stated on Tuesday,at a workshop organised by the Northern Islamic Forum in Kano that some of the negative effects of Child marriages are, reproductive health challenges, divorce, and the bad economic situation which give rise to having a lot of children without means of caring for them, and they result to terrorism and its like!
We are glad for this public awareness by a man of his position, and he just helped reiterate the message in the movie, "Wives on Strike", where the wives said no to "Child Marriage"!
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