Not less than 100 girls have been scheduled for an arranged wedding in Niger State this month even as the said event has come under fire.
A lawmaker in central Niger had planned to marry off some 100 female orphans whose relatives were killed during attacks by armed bandits later this month.
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Wasiu Alli
Wasiu Alli is a business, economics cum data journalist with strong expertise covering macro trends, capital markets, government policies, corporate earnings and comparative economics analysis. Alli turns raw data into trends that not only tells compelling stories but nudges investors to make valued and informed decisions. He’s an alumnus of Lagos State University and trained at Lagos Business School. He formerly heads the Companies and Markets desk at BusinessDay where he writes and supervises the production of well researched articles on earnings updates, corporate sectoral comparisons, market intelligence as well as interviews with C-suite executives.
