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Minister Of Women Affairs- Uju Kenendy-Ohanenye   The Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, on Thursday, announced scholarships and gave various gift items to 100 orphaned girls in Niger State, ahead of their mass wedding today (Friday). The mass wedding is being sponsored by the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Abdulmalik Sarkindaji. The minister had kicked against the mass wedding of the young girls, saying it was a violation of the Child Rights Act. Kennedy-Ohanenye, who addressed a press conference in Abuja, noted that she had petitioned the Inspector General of Police to stop the wedding, adding that she also filed a lawsuit, seeking an injunction to restrain the Speaker from going ahead with the mass wedding. In response, the Speaker lambasted the minister for dabbling into a religious and cultural issue she did not understand. He said the minister acted without first making any effort to understand the circumstances that confronted the girls, which made it ...

  Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs. Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, on Monday, warned the Speaker, of Niger State House of Assembly, Hon. Abdulmalik Sarkindaji, to rescind his planned decision to marry out 100 girls in Bangi, Headquarters of Mariga Local Government in the state. The marriage which is slated for 24 of this month, according to Sarkindaji, as disclosed in several media outlets this weekend, is coming as part of the lawmaker’s constituency project to marry out the girls who have become orphaned as a result of insecurity which claimed the lives of their parents. Addressing the media at the Headquarters of the Ministry of Women Affairs in Abuja, while also reacting to the avalanche of newspapers and trending social media reports, the Minister urged the lawmaker to jettison the idea, urging him to channel his constituency funds into empowering the 100 girls with education and skills development that will guarantee a better future for the girls. While acknowledging that the Inspector ...