Patience Akpan-Obong: Hauwa (Abubakar) eventually died as a - TopicsExpress



          

Patience Akpan-Obong: Hauwa (Abubakar) eventually died as a consequence of the double amputations. But her ordeals were not in vain. Her state, Bauchi, took the lead and banned marriages of girls under 18 years. The other nine northern states followed suit. All ten northern states offered universal education to girls until the age of 18. They enacted stiff penalties for fathers who withdrew their daughters from school for marriage.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 23:31:18 +0000

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