Hajia Aisha Buhari, the wife of Nigeria's President-elect, is seeking the legislation against child marriage in Nigeria.
Mrs Buhari disclosed this while speaking at the Global Women Conference held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, shortly after her presentation on the dangers women and girl child face every day.
According to reports by Channels TV, Mrs Buhari pressed for a legislation that would protect women and the girl child as discussions at the conference bordered around women empowerment and social inclusion.
According to her, the key to solving most of the problems women face is global legislation. She further put a call to government and international organisations to upsurge the participation of women in the decision making process.
Other Nigerian delegates at the event were Hannatu Ngilari, Hajo Sani and Mariyya Zayyan.
It should be noted that northern Nigeria has one of the highest rates of early marriage in the world. The Child Rights Act, passed in 2003, raised the minimum age of marriage to 18 for girls which is yet to implemented in all 36 states of Nigeria.
According to UNFPA, in Nigeria, ’20 percent of girls were married by age 15, and 40 percent were married by age 18.22 Child marriage is extremely prevalent in some regions; in the Northwest region, 48 percent of girls were married by age 15, and 78 percent were married by age 18.23.
Very well said Mrs Buhari
ReplyDeleteShe should know since she was married at 18 herself.
ReplyDelete18 is adulthood in any country of the world sir!
DeleteNice one ma'am,no better person to know how it feels than you....
ReplyDeleteYeah. Right action at the right direction. Bravo ma.
ReplyDeleteWow, sounds good.
ReplyDeleteGood bless you mam, fine woman see her smile
ReplyDeleteThere will be no office of the first lady Abi? Yet this one hasn't entered but is running her mouth up and down.. I laff in Urhorbo..
Delete@OROBO,Is that not hypocrisy in the highest order? She married Buhari at the age of 14.
Delete@Indigo, ur ignorance amazes me. The fac that she decided not to run the office of d first lady does not mean she will still not be known as the wife of the president. If anynody can be called the first lady, why have you not been called by that title? As the wife of the president, she can still fight for a cause. Use ur senses abeg.
Delete@Money making whatever, she got married at d age of 19 not 14. Get ur facts right and stop spreading falsehood.
I hope dis decision will stand. #childnotbride# I just wish!
ReplyDeleteBest news
ReplyDeleteThat is a good one.
ReplyDeleteI want to hear it from her husband.
ReplyDeleteWhy have she changed it from the Internationally recognized age of 18?
Anything worth doing is worth doing well .
Enough of child molestation in the name of marriage.
Very good!
ReplyDeleteBut she was barely 14 when her hubby married na.
ReplyDeleteSo what is she saying?
The northerners are obsessed with child marriage and you can't just take that away from them.
They are too blind and backward in their thinking to see that the world have lived past child marriage
Madam,try doing something else cos even your hubby won't concur to this.
Olodo she was 18. People like u r what's wrong with this country
DeleteEwu,leave hate and educate your self. She was 18year+10 months when she met her hubby.
Delete@"Chi exotic, no mind d woman. She dey find cheap popularity in abuja.
DeleteMake she go to katsina go talk am, make her people stone her to death
Chi exotic,u disappoint no one cos no one expects any better from u.It's only on dis blog u'll ever get any sort of attention in ur whole lifetime...u'll 4eva remain an unknown qty in d real world.
DeleteSdk,surprised u didn't add ur 2cents as u often do considering how important dis is in prootection of d girl-child.
Chi-ebola I was going 2 ask God 2 punish u 4 dese lies but wen I clicked on ur pic 2 c ur face,I realised He must already be punishing u
DeleteNice one but will the northerners agree to this?
ReplyDeleteEncouraging
ReplyDeleteI just hope those Islamic extremists in the north will change their way and stop child marriage.
Their religion will not allow the change bcos even the founder of their religion married a 9 years old child called Aisha and started "doing it" with her when she became 11 years old
Encouraging
ReplyDeleteI just hope those Islamic extremists in the north will change their way and stop child marriage.
Their religion will not allow the change bcos even the founder of their religion married a 9 years old child called Aisha and started "doing it" with her when she became 11 years old
No married her as six years slept with her at 9
DeleteHmmmmmmmmm
ReplyDeleteNa now she dey wake up from sleep ?
Was she a First Lady before? idiot
DeleteUseless he goat!
DeleteGo suck dick jare!
Kisses
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ReplyDeleteIts a good move but why am I feeling shez doing it too early or is it because after may 29th there won't be office of the firstlady, if that's the case she should carry on
Lol. MummyO. Your religion does not recognize your existence except as a xes Machine.
ReplyDeleteNice step Taken tho.
I just hope that this is not a political statement
ReplyDeleteI just hope she is not speaking from both sides of her mouth.
Ohhh we hear!!!
ReplyDeleteBut you and your HIV patient husband looks like pretenders to me ....
Anyway, whatever!!!
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and your pauper ebola infested husband is worth mentioning i guess? stupid idiots dat cum on here to lay out their frustration..ekuke.hippopotamus feeling like a peacock.i hope you have finished feeding your kids cowbell milk this morning as you don collect chair for blog.anumanu.uncouth bitch.befor you say i am anon,mind you that you are also an anon.pseudo name with no pix.i am sure you look like a whale.
Delete@Okija wife, lolz . Am with you on this
DeleteOkijawife,d only way u can talk about someone else's father dis way's if ur own father was a total n extreme failure...assuming u know who ur father really is.
DeleteAnon 9:04 she doesn't look like a whale...she is a whale!
H I p 4 d hip
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And T a m u s 4 d hippopotamus
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Okija wife...your comment is never complete without curses and insults. If this is the way you are in real life, then ur up bringing was a terrible one. I pity ur kids cos you would have destroyed their God-given destinies with ur curses. I pray God delivers them quickly.
DeleteSDK release my thunderstorm comments on all these oloriburukus jooor.....
DeleteAwon oloshi gbogbo!!! Ko de ni dafun e Lai Lai.....amin Ashe!
Y'all pls stop giving her any relevance. She's actually a frustrated house wife trapped in a loveless marriage. So the only time she gets any sorta excitement in her life is when she comes here to rant and deliberately get you upset over her comments. So rather than get mad at her (cos she'll continue doing it since it's fun to her), just read her comments and move on. At most, just tell her sorry, give her some e-hugs ronalda style, and move on to some sensible comments. Trust me it'll work.
DeleteGood one!
ReplyDeleteI have high hopes for This in-coming administration....
May God help our Sai and all those that he wil help him to steer our country to d greatest heights.....
M soo Rooting for u Sir.n praying for u.
Off to school.just Wanna come back home n sleeeep..... zzzzzzz
Motherhood is one very tough job!
#SleepandVacayIsAllINeed#
That's a good one. I wonder if our legislators will listen though.
ReplyDeleteGreat move.....
ReplyDeleteCan someone explain why these two, her husband and herself wont just wait to be sworn into office before choking us with their words and presence. Why make orders like you are the one in power? All the rubbish my President condones.
ReplyDelete@Gov Amaechi's, Abeg Amaechi don marry. Stop Ashawo work, e no good.
DeleteDid u read this @all or is it just d heading that u read?
DeleteGood job woman!!!
ReplyDeleteabegy na today we begin hear this one
ReplyDelete#GODWIN™
Mire grease 2 ur elbow Mam
ReplyDelete*more
DeleteCorrection of d errors of d past..experience is d best teacher
ReplyDeleteVery good initiative but I still beleive the ripe age for a girl to marry should start from 23
ReplyDeleteI guess she's speaking from experience.
ReplyDeleteWay 2 go beautiful hajia... N dey call ur hubby a sharia man n an xtremist#smh---MRS AAY
ReplyDeleteExperience talking but madam when your back hold a summit here and speak same ti the locals.
ReplyDelete@G_pharm.u hit d nail on the head
ReplyDeleteMake your MARK ma...You will be remembered for IT
ReplyDeleteMore grease to your elbow
Good work
ReplyDeleteWhat is the wife of the president of Nigeria talking for?. Under what office? I thought u said you didn't have a say so what are u blabbing about. Oshisco.
ReplyDeleteChai! Dem say make una learn Comprehension well for Pry school, una no gree. She said she doesn't want to be addressed as the FLON, but as the wife of the president. Does it mean she will be deaf and dumb?
DeleteSo many types of peeps on this blog. I marvel at some folks level of intelligence.
Hmmmm. Why the hurry to speak. She has 4yrs to be in office yet they can just wait to start their administration. Few days to go and you will be in power. Hope you will implement all these when the time comes.
ReplyDeleteI HOPE YOU WILL NOT INCUR THE WRATH OF YOUR MUSLIM BRETHERN FOR SPEAKING THEIR MOST CHERISHED RELIGIOUS BELIEF.
ReplyDeleteOkija wife, whatever evil you speak over this woman and her husband...I pray on you and yours. Evil woman
ReplyDeleteWelcome anonymous AKA Aisha Buhari's slave....com'on getaway here!!!
DeleteGo and nourish ur AIDS PATIENT HUBBY!!!
Smtcheeeeerwwww!!
Chi exotic, you can't speak any better because you do not have either any kind of exposure or aim in life. All you do is bash women with goals while you strive to have a man finance your life. Your hate for this woman is born from your lack of ambition in life. I can't join others to insult you because I understand how threatening it must be that who you expect to be nothing, can make more impact than you. All of you evil men obsessed girls on this blog who like to bash women with vision...continue. It will not change the fact that you have no direction in life, it will make you feel better but the truth is, you will look in the mirror and tell yourself the truth.
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