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Nigeria: Senator Saraki Speaks On the Rights of a Girl Child
Office of Senator Bukola Saraki, 18 July 2013
The Senator representing Kwara Central and Chairman Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology, Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki has debunked the allegation to his knowledge of a… Read more »
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Nigeria: Activists Fault Senate's Resolution On Underage Marriage
Premium Times, 18 July 2013
The senate on Wednesday passed a proposal claiming that a woman is deemed to be "full of age" once she is married irrespective of the age she did so. Read more »
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Nigeria: Senate Votes Against Ban of Underage Marriage
This Day, 17 July 2013
The much-awaited voting on recommendations of the Senate Committee on the Review of the Constitution took place Tuesday with the parliament throwing out the recommendation of a… Read more »
Nigeria's Senate Okays Marriage for Underage Women
The Senate has voted to support underage marriage, as they deleted age specification for women being married from the draft constitution and left the marriage age for women open.
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16 July 2013
Senate To Support Underage Marriage
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The former Zamfara State Governor and current Senator, Sani Yerima, whose marriage to a 13-year-old girl drew widespread outrage in 2009, literally ... see more »
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The Registered Trustees of Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria has dragged to an Abuja High Court on the controversy surrounding the marriage of Senator Ahmed Yerima to an ... Read more »
