SCI Media and Communications Manager, Mr Kunle Olawoyi, make the disclosure this in a statement he signed and made available to newsmen in Dutse on Thursday.
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Ehanire, represented by Dr Salma Anas, Director, Family Health, gave the commendation at the Reaching and Empowering Adolescents to make Informed Choices for Their Health in Nigeria (REACH) close out event organised by SCI in Abuja.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the girl fled her home in Plateau State to Ekiti State on September 17 to stay with her brother to avoid the forceful marriage.
Awogbemi, Consultancy/Capacity Development Director, First Future Leadership, spoke as a keynote speaker at a programme on “Ending Child Marriage in Lagos State: Stakeholders’ Call to Action’’.
The movie, which features other big guns in the Yoruba Nollywood such as Yinka Quadri, Ayo Mogaji, Toyin Adegbola, Kunle Afod, Yetunde Wunmi and many more, focuses on issues and challenges facing the girl child in Africa in the area of early marriage.
Alhassan said: “There are always high maternal mortality and morbidity, illiteracy, lack of skills, unemployment, low income and widespread misery among victims of child marriage, especially female victims
She said the leaders also resolved to take practical steps in addressing the issues of child marriage and other harmful traditional practices
The National Assembly was also tasked to immediately expunge the nebulous and controversial anti-child provision in the ongoing amendments of the 1999 Constitution on citizenship, which appear to support early child marriage as passed by the Senate
In her broadcast, Dikeh described senators advocating for such idea in Nigeria as morally imbalanced and clueless
“They were simply blackmailed and on that day if they didn’t do what they did, nobody knows what the outcome would be or how the consequences will be today because the people outside can say this man, you are a Muslim and didn’t vote for something that is of Islamic interest, because if we don’t hit the nail squarely on the head, we may never get it right
In an interview with NAN, Odumakin urged Nigerians to reject the resolution as it would be an opportunity for “social perverts to further mess up the lives of our young girls
A copy of the report of the Senate committee in my possession does not have any clause on marriage. The fact that there was no clause on marriage, puts a lie on the report that Senate passed an age-limit marriage