Child bride: Girls are (still) being forced into marriage in the North – CAN

The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN north zone on Monday condemned the withdrawal of girls in the area from schools and forcefully marrying them off at an early age.

The Chairman of CAN in the zone, Rev. Yakubu Pam made the condemnation on Monday during a regional delegates’ conference of the association in Jos.

“Farmers are killed on the fields and this has forced them to abandon the farms; hunger is imminent in the country if nothing is done about this.

“We have also observed that girls in the northern part of the country are being withdrawn from schools and forced into marriage.

“The association is taking a deeper look into that menace and will come out with suggestions on ways to check the trend,” he said.

He further advised youths to embrace farming.

He said, “We must resort to farming to cushion the current economic hardship; doing nothing is very dangerous.”

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