Mrs Buhari To End Child Marriage In Nigeria; No Girl Should Be Married Before The Age of 17, Calls For Legislation Against Early Marriage

The change coming to Nigeria may be enormous and more huge than we all expect from the incoming president GMB and his wife Aisha. According reports Mrs Buhari has made up her mind to come up a national bill of rights to ensure that no girl is married off before the age of 17.In her preview, ''girls who are of 18 to 20 years old are better matured to give birth to a child than those who are 17 and below.'' She was report to have made her wish known while speaking to Channels TV at the side-line of the Global WOMEN Conference held in Buenos Aires, Argentina shortly after her presentation on the danger women and girl child faces on daily bases. She did call for legislation against early marriage. 

In her words..............;

"We have heard so much from the Ministers ofWOMEN affairs from different countries. We are trying to tally it with what is happening in Nigeria, to find out how we are lacking and in which aspect of women affairs that we are lacking and the ones that we have gone ahead. I think so far its quite encouraging. We just need to put everything in practice than being in theory. If the government can stand up and say every girl child must attend basic primary and secondary schoolEDUCATION before getting married. I think nobody, no girl should be married before the age of 17 because if you really attend secondary school, you will have to be like 16 and 17 and I think by the time you are 18- 20, its quite a moderate time of having a child," Nigerian incoming first Lady said.