Low global oil prices have hurt Nigeria’s economy, taking it to the brink of recession. But the resulting cash crunch has also had a more unexpected effect – on mass weddings.

More than 10, 000 women have registered for the state-sponsored programme in Kano, said Abba Sufi, director-general of the northern city’s “morality police”, the Hisbah.

“At the moment we have over 10,000 women who have registered for the mass wedding programme and are waiting to be introduced to prospective suitors when the project resumes,” he told AFP.

“The women include divorcees and girls of marriage age registered in person and via social media platforms we operate.”

The matchmaking programme began in 2012 to help divorcees remarry in Kano state, which has the highest divorce rate in Nigeria.....
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good 4 them

newsrepublique:
Low global oil prices have hurt Nigeria’s economy, taking it to the brink of recession. But the resulting cash crunch has also had a more unexpected effect – on mass weddings.

More than 10, 000 women have registered for the state-sponsored programme in Kano, said Abba Sufi, director-general of the northern city’s “morality police”, the Hisbah.

“At the moment we have over 10,000 women who have registered for the mass wedding programme and are waiting to be introduced to prospective suitors when the project resumes,” he told AFP.

“The women include divorcees and girls of marriage age registered in person and via social media platforms we operate.”

The matchmaking programme began in 2012 to help divorcees remarry in Kano state, which has the highest divorce rate in Nigeria.....
Read more on:http://www.newsrepublique.com/economic-downturn-affects-northern-nigeria-mass-weddings/

werw is waku and co that ask me to drink my oil..oya start paying your dowary with groundnut and yams..hahaha you see the reason why productivity is low in d north,they wait for oil money to share wives for lazy youths,ha! lord lugard you no go die better.

Make dem carry dere cross.

Northerners just want everything to be free including their dowry should be taken care of by the government

so na nigerdelta money dem take dey marry for north.... lazy illiterates.

So abok1s too dey divorce?

What's the usefulness if this hausa/fulani's to nigeria,they have ruled nigeria than any other region still they are backward