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8 year old weds 14 year old in Zaria

While advanced societies are trying to wage a war to stop child marriage, in Zaria parents joined their eight year old daughter and fourteen years old SS1 boy in matrimony.

They are of the Baba Ahmed family in Zaria and this is reportedly not the first of such marriages they have conducted.