FG, AU Countries to End Child Marriage
The federal government says it is working with leaders of other African countries to end child marriage. Minister of Women Affairs, Dame Pauline Tallen said the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is determined to end child marriage in view of the serious threat it poses to the development of the girl child in the country.
Tallen said the government is working to find a common front to ensure the child right act is domesticated across the 36 states of the federation.
She said this yesterday in Abuja, at a one-day meeting with the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and CSOs coalition working on Ending Child Marriage in Nigeria supported by the Ford Foundation and the development Research and Projects Centre, and the coalition of CSOs Technical Working Group in Nigeria. She sai...