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CLEDA-Africa (NGO) States: "Child marriage hinders girl child development"
- SitiTalkBlog
- Oct 16, 2016
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Daily Post Nigeria reports:
The Centre for Learning and Educational Development Advocacy Africa (CLEDA-Africa), an NGO, has said that child marriage is one of the major hindrances to girl child development in the country.
Mr Daniels Akpan, its Executive Director, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna on Tuesday that globally, one in seven adolescent girls aged 15 to 19 are currently married.
“This is even worst in developing countries where one in three girls are married off before they turn 18 and more than 20,000 girls under the age of 18 give birth daily. “This increases the world population by seven million annually,’’ he said.
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