Nigeria: Child Rights Acts - Before the Curtain Falls for the Girl Child

26 May 2010

ALMOST everything about Senator Ahmed Sani Yerima, seems controversially different. He was the first Northern governor to introduce Sharia legal system, which was later described as political sharia by ex- President Olusegun Obasanjo.

He was reported to have married a 15-year-old girl named Hauwa'u as his fourth wife in 2006 after he allegedly forced her to drop out of school at Junior Secondary School class 3.

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