Here's how it happened. The Nigerian senate on Tuesday July
16th pegged the official marriage age in Nigeria as 18 years when they amended
the constitution. Then Former Zamfara Governor, now Senator, Sani Yerima, who
married a 13 year old Egyptian girl in 2010, opposed the age restrictions
saying it was anti-islam. For some reason the Senate agreed with him and made
an about turn.
The Senate has now deleted the age specification from the new constitution,
leaving marriage age for women open. They stated that 'a woman is deemed to
be “full of age” once she is married irrespective of the age she did so.'
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