'Marriage is not empowerment': Uproar over mass wedding of Nigerian girls, some feared to be underage
Nigeria 's women's minister, who is leading the campaign to shelve Friday's wedding, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that she had filed a court injunction to stop it.
Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye said the wedding violates Nigeria's Child Rights Acts and Violence Against Persons Prohibition Act that criminalises forced marriages for women and girls.South Africans need to be in the know if we want to create a prosperous future. News24 has kept the country informed for 25 years, and we're about to enter a new chapter of fearless journalism. Join our free subscription trial to unlock this story and a world of news aimed to inform, empower, and inspire.
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