Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has appealed to wealthy individuals to marry more than one wife in order to reduce the number of unmarried women in the society.
Ganduje made the plea during the mass wedding of 1,520 widows, divorcees and spinsters at the Kano Central Mosque.
He disclosed on Sunday that the government would henceforth regulate marriages in order to sanitise the institution in the state.
He said that the state government and Islamic scholars would come up with a document which would be presented to the State Assembly.
“We are determined in Kano State to come up with laws that will govern marriage and laws that will govern family lives,’’ he said.
Ganduje said that the mass wedding was aimed at combating rising rates of divorce, births out of wedlock and the number of impoverished widows and…
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