A plan to marry off 100 girls, orphaned by the surge of banditry in a local government in Niger State, has ignited public outrage and concern over its legality from human rights advocates. There is no iota of verifiable evidence that they have reached the country’s statutory age of marriage. Therefore, critics demand, and rightly so, that the ceremony should be stopped. The girls, who have been traumatised by life’s cruel circumstances, should not be further subjected to…
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