Nigeria: Arewa Group Faults Senate's Support for Child Marriage

22 July 2013

The debate over 'child marriage' that took place in the senate has triggered off some mixed feelings from some northern youths, who have advised senators to brace to their responsibilities and stop breeding religious division in the country.

This is as the wife of the Ekiti State Governor, Mrs. Bisi Fayemi, urged more men and women of good conscience, civil society organisations, feminists and social justice crusaders to lend their voice to the ongoing outrage on the move by the Senate to legalise child marriage.

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