LAGOS (Reuters) - A Nigerian rights group has launched a petition to stop plans by religious leaders and a state lawmaker to push 100 girls and young women into marriage in a mass ceremony next week, ...

In a surprise turn of events, the proposed mass wedding for 100 orphans in Mariga Local Government Area of Niger State which was held on Friday but in the homes of individual brides. The wedding was ...

After her initial confrontation with the Speaker of the Niger House of Assembly, Abdulmalik Sarkindaji, and traditional institutions in the state over the plan to marry out 100 orphaned girls, the ...