News24 | 'Marriage is not empowerment': Uproar over mass wedding of Nigerian girls, some feared to be underage
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A plan to marry off 100 Nigerian girls and young women in a state-sponsored mass wedding has sparked a heated debate about child marriage and female education, with last-ditch efforts under way to ban the ceremony.