Tag: Mass Wedding
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Kebbi govt holds mass wedding for 300 couples
The Kebbi State Government has commenced preparations to sponsor a mass wedding for 300 couples in the state scheduled for Feb. 27.
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Kano Mass Wedding: Don’t check your husband’s phones – Kwankwaso tells couples
Sen. Rabi’u Kwankwaso, the NNPP National leader, has advised the 1,800 couples under the mass wedding scheme against checking their spouses’ phones. This is to avoid anything that could lead to the marriage break up, he counselled.
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8,000 screened for mass wedding in Kano
The Kano State Hisbah Board has screened 8,000 prospective couples to participate in the state-sponsored mass wedding of divorcees, widows and spinsters. The Kano State Government had on Dec. 12, 2018 set up a 23-member committee on state-sponsored wedding of 3,000 widows, divorcees and spinsters in the state. The board’s Public Relations Officer, Alhaji Adamu…
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Kebbi Govt marries off 100 widows, divorcees in mass wedding
The Kebbi Government on Saturday married off 100 widows and divorcees in a mass wedding held in the palace Emir of Argungu, Alhaji Samila Mera. The marriages were arranged by the state and Argungu Local Governments to reduce the number of women, widowed or divorced, left to fend for themselves and their children. Governor Abubakar…
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Kano marries off 1,520 couples in mass wedding
Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano state, on Sunday urged the 1,520 couples who benefitted from the state government’s mass wedding to live in peace with one another for the union to last long. The governor made the call at a reception organised for the couples after the wedding which held in four Juma’at Mosques in…
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Mass wedding: Sokoto Govt. to spend N32m for 100 couples in 2017
The Sokoto State Government says it has received approval from the state government to spend N32 million on mass wedding for 100 couples this year. The Commissioner for Religious Affairs, Alhaji Mani Maishinku, disclosed this in Sokoto on Friday while defending the ministry’s budget proposals for 2017 before the state House of Assembly’s Committee on…
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Sokoto Govt. to spend N32m for mass wedding
Sokoto State Government on Friday said it had earmarked N32 million for the mass wedding of 100 couples in the state. The State commissioner for Religious Affairs, Alhaji Mani katami, disclosed this at the inauguration of the committee on Islamic Marriage Mediation in Sokoto. He said beneficiaries would be drawn from the 23 local government…