{"id":32518,"date":"2024-05-24T16:41:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T16:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=32518"},"modified":"2024-05-24T16:41:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T16:41:39","slug":"minister-of-women-affairs-supports-niger-mass-wedding-of-100-orphans-with-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/05\/24\/minister-of-women-affairs-supports-niger-mass-wedding-of-100-orphans-with-donations\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister of Women Affairs Supports Niger Mass Wedding of 100 Orphans with Donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, has reversed her earlier stance and now supports the mass wedding of 100 female orphans in Niger State. This change comes after her initial opposition to the event, citing concerns about potential violations of the Child Rights Act. The wedding, sponsored by Abdulmalik Sarkindaji, the Speaker of the Niger House of Assembly, took place on May 23.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a statement by her aide, Adaji Usman, Kennedy-Ohanenye expressed her support by offering scholarships and various gift items to the brides. She clarified that her previous opposition was misunderstood and that she aimed to ensure the girls were of marriageable age and were not being forced into marriage. She also commended Sarkindaji&#8217;s initiative and promised that the girls would be closely monitored to ensure the empowerment scheme&#8217;s objectives are met.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy-Ohanenye&#8217;s contributions included scholarships, wrappers, foodstuffs, and the opening of bank accounts for the brides, with a stipend deposited for use over the next six months. The gifts were distributed at the palace of the Emir of Kontagora, Mohammed Muazu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, has reversed her earlier stance and now supports the mass wedding of 100 female orphans in Niger State. This change comes after her initial opposition to the event, citing concerns about potential violations of the Child Rights Act. The wedding, sponsored by Abdulmalik Sarkindaji, the Speaker of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":32519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32520,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32518\/revisions\/32520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}