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.

Kaduna State Govt begins feeding of 1.5m primary school pupils

The Kaduna State Government, on Monday commenced the feeding of 1.5 million children in over 4000 pubic primary schools in the state.
　
Gov. Nasiru El-Rufai flagged off the School Feeding Programme at Aliyu Makama LEA Primary School in Barnawa, Kaduna.
　
He said that the intervention was necessary to boost nutrition and health of the children, as well as encourage school attendance.