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Kano marries off 100 women in mass wedding

The Kano government has married off 100 widows and divorced women in a mass wedding ceremony held in the Emir’s palace on Tuesday.
The marriage is the first batch in a series of mass weddings planned by religious authorities in Kano, sponsored by the government, to marry off the city’s bulging widowed and divorced community.
A total of 1,000 couples are to wed in the in the ceremonies, planned in ten batches.
The marriages were arranged by the Hisbah board, in a bid to reduce the number of women, widowed or divorced, and left to fend for themselves and their children.


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The Sultan of Sokoto , Alhaji Sa’ ad Abubakar III , has advocated the conduct of marriages between Christians and Muslims to enhance sustainable peace and harmonious co – existence in the country.

The sultan, who made the call at the Peace and Unity Training Workshop organised by the Christian Youth for Peace in collaboration with the Inter -religious Peace Initiative in Abuja at the weekend, said inter- religious marriages would stem the frequent religious clashes in parts of the country.

He said peace had no compromise , adding that Christians and Muslims should seek it at all costs as the two religions were founded on peace . The Sultan , who represented by Dr Idris Umar , the Sarkin Jiwa, urged the workshop participants to be ambassadors of peace, living in harmony with one another, irrespective of religious differences. In his remarks at the workshop, Chief Imam of Apo Legislative Quarters , Nuru Khalid, said it was permissible in the Holy Qur ’ an for a Muslim to marry from other religions , stressing that such ties existed even in the days of the Holy Prophet and would foster mutual understanding and tolerance among different religions in the country .