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Nigeria: Advocates Ask Senator to Appear with Under-Aged Wife
Vanguard, 2 June 2010
A Legal practitioner and a child advocate, Taiwo Akinlami has asked National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Person and other Related Matter (NAPTIP) to demand that… Read more »
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Nigeria: Sharia Council Defends Senator's Child Marriage
Vanguard, 2 June 2010
The controversy surrounding the marriage of Senator Ahmed Yerima to an Egyptian 13 year old, is gaining storm, as the Registered Trustees of Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria… Read more »
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Nigeria: Child Abuse - We Will Follow Yerima's Case to the End, Says Bankole
Vanguard, 19 May 2010
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole Wednesday assured a gathering of Nigerian children that the House would follow through to the end about eight petitions… Read more »
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Nigeria: Yerima Quizzed Over Child Marriage - Granted Bail
Independent (Lagos), 18 May 2010
Senator Sani Ahmed, commonly known as Yerima, was on Tuesday quizzed by the National Agency for Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and Other Related Matters (NAPTIP) over his… Read more »
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Nigeria: The Teen Wives of Senator Yerima
Independent (Lagos), 16 May 2010
Senator Ahmed Sani (Yerima Bakura), 50, typifies the kind of folks we have in the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He has no respect for the law and he does not hide the… Read more »
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Nigeria: Investigate Yerima's Marriage, Group Tells Egypt, FG
Vanguard, 14 May 2010
Following the marriage of a minor by Senator Ahmed Yerima, Alliances for Africa has called on the governments of Nigeria and Egypt to immediately carry out an investigation into… Read more »
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Nigeria: As Promised, Not About Islam
Vanguard, 13 May 2010
Ahmed Yerima, currently a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and a former Governor of Zamfara State, has been widely reported in several media to have recently married a 13… Read more »
