{"id":2155,"date":"2021-07-18T03:33:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T07:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africaglobalnews.com\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2021-07-18T03:33:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T07:33:46","slug":"young-nigerian-girls-fighting-to-change-the-constitution-on-early-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africaglobalnews.com\/website_b1ce9d46\/young-nigerian-girls-fighting-to-change-the-constitution-on-early-marriages\/","title":{"rendered":"The story of three young Nigerian girls set to change the constitution on early marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Samuel Abuya <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicef.org\/wca\/media\/2596\/file\">2018 UNICEF report<\/a> indicated that Nigeria is one of the countries in Africa with the highest number of child brides with more than a third of young girls ending up in early marriages and more than 22 million girls married or married off before they celebrate their 18<sup>th<\/sup> birthday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is against this backdrop that three young girls in Nigeria have set out to challenge and change the narrative of in a country where there is no constitutionally set age limit on what can be regarded as child marriage, and one in which one of its top politicians have previously been accused of marrying minors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5506089157017573\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"1517254432\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Temitayo Asuni, 15, Kudirat Abiola, 15 and Susan Ubogu, 16, are Nigerian schools girls who have set their eyes on changing the country\u2019s constitution and save young girls as far as marriage is concerned. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The young girls started an online petition that they have been pushing much as they fully understand that it is, and will be, a tall order for them to achieve their purpose especially in getting lawmakers on board to seal the legal loopholes that many men in Nigeria have been using when marrying young girls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Abiola, a girl determined to become a children\u2019s rights activist in future, early marriage is an emotional issue. &#8220;How do you give a young girl such a responsibility and have her education, friends, and family taken away from her?&#8221; she poses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/190524181015-04-cnn-as-equals-nigeria-consent-super-169.jpg?w=696&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Kudirat Abiola\"\/><figcaption> Kudirat Abiola <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/05\/25\/africa\/nigerian-girls-child-marriage-campaign-intl\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>, Abiola confirmed that she is inspired by her civil rights activist aunt, <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2012\/12\/27\/world\/africa\/hafsat-abiola-activist-nigeria\/index.html\">Hafsat Abiola<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, Ubogu, who learned coding at the tender age of ten years, has a software company already with two games available on Google Play Store at her age. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/190524180916-03-cnn-as-equals-nigeria-consent-super-169.jpg?w=696&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Susan Ubogu\"\/><figcaption> Susan Ubogu <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ubogu says and strongly believe there shouldn\u2019t be any girl who is denied her right to education. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asuni,who is one of the three young girls, says she has been following and reading newspaper articles about young girls married off to old men, enough to be their fathers, since her elementary school days. She says she always felt sort of helpless until she met her two friends, Abiola and Ubogu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/190524180736-02-cnn-as-equals-nigeria-consent-super-169.jpg?w=696&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Temitayo Asuni\"\/><figcaption> Temitayo Asuni <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The girls have tailored their \u201cNever Your Fault\u201d campaign around a clause in Section 29 of the Nigerian constitution that, according to them, \u2018backs underage marriage\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Nigeria&#8217;s 2003\nChild Rights Act puts it clear that children under the age of 18 cannot get\nmarried, a sub-section of the country&#8217;s constitution tackling citizenship says\n&#8220;any woman who is married shall be deemed to be of full age.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An attempt to scrap off that section, which is typically a loophole in the Nigerian constitution in terms of underage marriages, was met with a lot of opposition at the country\u2019s Senate in 2013. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;If you are 11 and you are married, you are deemed to be a woman. 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Plan International, a\nglobal child rights group, gave the girls support on their cause. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahmad Sani Yerima, a former Governor and now Senator, was accused in 2010 of marrying an underage saying the marriage was in line with Islamic Sharia laws. Yerima was, however, denied the bride who was 13 years old. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Africa Global News Publication <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Abuya A 2018 UNICEF report indicated that Nigeria is one of the countries in Africa with the highest number of child brides with more than a third of young girls ending up in early marriages and more than 22 million girls married or married off before they celebrate their 18th birthday. 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