FINDING HARMONY IN THE DISCORDANT LEGAL REGIMES IN NIGERIA ON MINIMUM AGE OF MARRIAGE FOR THE GIRL CHILD

Résumé

Ahmed Sani Yerima, a senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria representing Zamfara West Senatorial seat in the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was in the news in March 2010.  He was alleged to have married a 13 year old Egyptian girl at the National Mosque Abuja sometime in March 2010.  The incident, as expected, generated massive objection from women’s rights activists with calls that the Senator be prosecuted for breaching provisions of a Nigerian law.