Court bars man from marrying 16-year-old girl in Nigeria
A family court sitting in Akure, the Ondo State capital, has stopped an Islamic cleric, Yusuf Lateef, from forcefully marrying a 16-year-old girl (names withheld). Reports say that the defendant approached the girl’s parents to marry their daughter in 2019 when the girl was 15 but the girl refused. The parents had allegedly forced her […]
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