The Senate of Federal republic of Nigeria has approved the marriage of
under-aged children irrespective of their age in the country. This new
law will proscribe the 18 year-old rule for any Nigerian child to
qualify to engaged into a conscious agreement of marriage.
The
Senates claimed that a woman is deemed to be full of age once she is
married irrespective of her age.The Proponents or supporters of the
under-age marriage rule includes Senator Yerima Ahmad Sani, Zamfara
West, who claimed that the provision which stipulates a certain age for
women before getting married, was at variance with Islamic law.
After
a moment of controversy, Senate President David Mark asked his
colleagues to vote afresh on the provision, a situation that eventually
went in favour of Sani, who, thereafter, thanked the Senate president
and his colleagues for supporting his cause.
It is worthy of
note that Senator Yerima Ahmad Sani had two years ago married a
13-year-old Egyptian in violation of the constitutional provision.
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