{"id":59449,"date":"2024-05-17T15:34:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T15:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=59449"},"modified":"2024-05-17T15:34:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T15:34:41","slug":"nigerian-mass-wedding-for-orphaned-girls-provokes-outcry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/05\/17\/nigerian-mass-wedding-for-orphaned-girls-provokes-outcry\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian mass wedding for orphaned girls provokes outcry"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59450\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Mass-wedding-in-Nigeria-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Mass-wedding-in-Nigeria-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Mass-wedding-in-Nigeria-360x225.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Mass-wedding-in-Nigeria.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">A <\/span><a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/marriage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">mass wedding<\/a>\u00a0for 100 girls orphaned by\u00a0<a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2023\/12\/26\/nigeria-massacres-at-least-160-people-killed-tens-villages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">attacks in Nigeria<\/a> has prompted outcry amid criticism that some of the brides may be underage, or being forced to get married for money.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/nigerian-mass-wedding-for-orphaned-girls-provokes-outcry\/ar-BB1mzDPg?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=d231a2eb8f654bb7c50cb68ee4374651&amp;ei=19\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A mass wedding\u00a0for 100 girls orphaned by\u00a0attacks in Nigeria has prompted outcry amid criticism that some of the brides may be underage,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-59449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Mass-wedding-in-Nigeria.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59451,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59449\/revisions\/59451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}