{"id":87040,"date":"2026-03-28T21:31:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T21:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87040"},"modified":"2026-03-28T21:31:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T21:31:54","slug":"nigerias-debt-brides-battle-for-their-futures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/28\/nigerias-debt-brides-battle-for-their-futures\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\u2019s debt brides battle for their futures"},"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-76058\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Nigeria-map-border-countries-300x249.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Nigeria-map-border-countries-300x249.gif 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Nigeria-map-border-countries-1024x849.gif 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Nigeria-map-border-countries-770x639.gif 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Nigeria-map-border-countries-1536x1274.gif 1536w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Nigeria-map-border-countries-360x299.gif 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In parts of Nigeria\u2019s Cross River State, young girls are still being forced into marriage as a way for families to settle debts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/family-and-relationships\/marriage\/nigeria-s-debt-brides-battle-for-their-futures\/vi-AA1XLefN\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>In parts of Nigeria\u2019s Cross River State, young girls are still being forced into marriage as a way for families to settle&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87040","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\/2023\/01\/wedding.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87040","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=87040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87041,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87040\/revisions\/87041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}