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A recent report from Save the Children International showed that 48% of girls in northern Nigeria get married before the age of 15.
The report titled ‘State of the Nigerian Girl: An incisive diagnosis of child marriage in Nigeria’ also revealed that 78 per cent of girls in northern Nigeria were married by age 18.
It read, “An estimated 44% of girls in Nigeria are married before their 18th birthday and the country also records the 11th highest rate of child marriage globally (UNICEF, 2013).
“Northern Nigeria (North East and North West) had 48 percent…
