Wife of Nigeria's president-elect, Mrs Aisha Buhari says no girl should be married before age 17. According to her, girls who are of 18 to 20 years old are better matured to give birth to a child than those who are 17 and below. Mrs Buhari said this while speaking to Channels TV at the side-line of the Global Women Conference held in Buenos Aires, Argentina shortly after her presentation on the danger women and girl child contend with daily. She pushed for legislation against early marriage..
"We have heard so much from the Ministers of Women affairs from different countries. We are trying to tally it with what is happening in Nigeria, to find out how we are lacking and in which aspect of women affairs that we are lacking and the ones that we have gone ahead. I think so far its quite encouraging. We just need to put everything in practice than being in theory.
If the government can stand up and say every girl child must attend basic primary and secondary school education before getting married. I think nobody, no girl should be married before the age of 17 because if you really attend secondary school, you will have to be like 16 and 17 and I think by the time you are 18- 20, its quite a moderate time of having a child"she said Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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Please 21...encourage them to get tertiary education... Let's get global with our psychology
ReplyDeleteAnother hypocrisy....like you people will accept it??
ReplyDelete"no girl should be married before age 17"
ReplyDeleteIf implemented, this will be a very big step forward for progress in Nigeria. If government provide free primary and secondary education, parents will have no reason to send their daughters for early marriage.
GOOD POINT. ur husband dem and una religion go agree? my people said "before u look for medicine for mad man, first ask him whether he go drink" Ask ur ppl first, that is the home of infant marriage.
ReplyDeleteA GAZELLE AS AGAINST THE HIPPOPOTAMUS WE HAD. NICE CHANGE.
ReplyDeleteTell Ur cattle reading brothers first, then Ur fellow blood suckers in Islam. E.g madman Sanni Iyerima of Zamfara before telling us from the south. Rubbish talk.
ReplyDeleteif you dont have any message to pass to the public look for something ex doing
ReplyDeleteMadam Buhari at what age did u marry ur husband?
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