Nigeria’s Child Rights Act, which Bayelsa State has domesticated, criminalises child marriage.
A Child rights advocacy group in Bayelsa, DO Foundation, on Thursday, kicked against the 26 December traditional marriage between a four-year-old ‘bride’ and a 54-year-old man at Akeddei community in Sagbama Local Government Area of the state.
DO Foundation, in a statement in Yenagoa, described the marriage as illegal, criminal and child marriage which is against the constitution and the Child Rights…
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