The wedding which took place on Sunday, February 26th, was the first under Governor Umar Ganduje's administration.

At least 3,000 couples were screened before 1,520 were selected as first batch of the exercise, said the governor.


Wedding will be sponsored for the remaining couples in future, he added.

"We decided to make it in batches so that we will do everything diligently," he assured.

Kano government paid N20,000 in dowry for each bride and donated to each couple room furniture set and other items.

Emir of Kano, Mallam Muhammadu Sanusi commended Kano state government for sponsoring the mass wedding, saying the gesture would help less privileged.

Sanusi assured that the emirate council would continue to support any government's programme that would better up the lives of people of Kano.

Commander General of the Kano State Hisbah Board, Sheikh Aminu Ibrahim Daurawa, said according to the agreement entered between government and the grooms, nobody would divorce his wife without permission of Hisbah board.

The state Commissioner for Local Government, Murtala Sule Garo, said about N200m was spent for the mass wedding programme, with couples from each of the Kano’s 44 local government areas, unlike in previous mass weddings.

Garo explained that, government decentralized the programme with a view to empowering local carpenters who were contracted to make the funiture for the brides.

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http://www.newseveryhour.com/2017/02/photos-kano-state-govt-spends-n200.html

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200m is too small mah

If that is the wish of the people, cute, if not ............. trouble dey

And they budgeted for that with no adequate budget for education. The distance between habokis and common senz ehn

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"Kano government paid N20,000 in dowry for each bride and donated to each couple room furniture set and other items."
How much does registration per couple cost?

-What about condoms?
- Foam companies don hammer
- When is the next batch?

Nigeria is so backward

na wao


Lord Luggard you no try

look at what you joined us with, people who cant even feed themselves being pushed to marry and give birth to battalions of potential Boko Haram units

the North is still in the stone age
spits

Waste of priority!

In this recession?

N200m÷1520=N131,578.947 per couple.
Business capital.

Some could be 4th wives
Come Lagos to learn
No reasonable projects
Either they build mosque or more stupid stuff

I hope they're provided with jobs too. HML.

No wonder boko haram no dey gree finish..

Certificate of procreation Almajiris..
I will rather provide them jobs and allow them marry when they are sure they can take care of their family..

waste of money.

Such a huge amount could have empowered thousands of youths in Kano state economically instead of wasting it on wedding for people who might not be able to feed themselves afterwards

Contact us for all your roofing jobs and roof maintenance etc

Lord Lugard sef! am tired of sharing a country with this animal!

D North is Nigeria's major problem

May Allah bless their unions.

Spend this money on education..Is education a taboo to this northerners?

200million for wedding, dis is serious am sure when d women but to birth govt will spend 400million

Haba!!!
This people too like fuc cck.And many here are divorced. Shebi na three times them dey talk am before their women go carry their load go.

200million to born 1billion almajiris. What a good return for investment. Yeye people.

Misplaced priority

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1520 * an average of 4 children = more almajiris



hope that marriage comes with child limit

Keep marrying them and keep exploding the population I the North

Misplaced priority.

Am I the only one seeing 90% of the brides are teenagers??


Hope d government will be providing food, cloths and shelter for their children?

Or their will wait for another mass wedding to get married too

Smh


Not only wedding, mass naming ceremony should be done too

Northern states can never move forward with this mentality...

Imagine the ridiculousness

N200mil works out to roughly 130k per person. What exactly was this spent on? Is this not another corruption?

Na wa for these Northern governors Of all the problems in the North, this is their priority, what a shame!!