Tag: Niger Speaker halts mass wedding for female orphans

  The Speaker of the Niger State House of Assembly Abdulmalik Sarkindaji, on Tuesday, announced the withdrawal of his involvement in the mass wedding of 100 orphaned girls in his Mariga Local Government Area constituency. Sarkindaji said he was pulling out of the arrangement following the opposition by the Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye,…