President Muhammadu Buhari, Thursday, in Abuja, declared that the Federal Government will sustain on-going efforts to end child marriage and improve girl-child education in the country....
by Emma Batha LONDON, Oct 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When Ugandan schoolgirl Auma got her first period she asked her mother for sanitary pads. Her...
Lamido Sanusi II, Nigeria’s second highest Islamic authority, is on a mission to end child marriage. As the emir of Kano in northern Nigeria, one of...
The Katsina State Police Command has asked Habiba Isa, the 14-year-old girl who was allegedly converted to Islam and forced into marriage, to return to her...
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on Wednesday advised the Federal and State Governments in Nigeria to pay more attention to implementing laws that protect the...
Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh has told lawmakers to introduce legislation to ban child marriage. Mr Jammeh said anyone marrying a girl aged below 18 would be...
The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II Tuesday voiced his opposition against child marriage saying it’s time to peg marriage age in the Nigeria. Addressing...
By Halima Oji “Right now in society, a woman can’t just do something because she wants to. She is someone’s mother, wife or daughter or girlfriend....
A 14-year-old Nigerian girl accused of murdering her 35-year-old husband by putting rat poison in his food could face the death penalty, Nigerian prosecutors said Thursday,...
A 14-year-old bride, Wasila Umar, who allegedly killed her 35-year-old groom, Umar Sani and three other persons in Yansoro Kademi village of Gaya local government area...
