Ode to Ode: To merry or to marry
Marriage can be too early such that it distorts a child’s process of full self-discovery and set them on a course of intergenerational poverty and integral pain.
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INVESTIGATION: How corrupt officials make millions daily at Nigeria’s prominent marriage registry
While the federal government reduced the fees for registering marriages in Nigeria, corrupt officials of marriage registries have continued to extort prospective couples by charging above the official rate – diverting millions of naira into their personal bank accounts, and shortchanging the federal government. This investigation looks at the corrupt practices and loopholes through which a system frustrates its own online registration portal and forces citizens into mandatory bribes. TAIWO ADEBULU went undercover to expose the fraud in the marriage registration process.
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WORRIES AS 36% OF MARRIED NIGERIAN WOMEN HAVE EXPERIENCED SPOUSAL VIOLENCE AT ONE POINT