Nigeria has 23m child brides, second in the world – UNICEF

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said 23million Nigerian children are married off as child brides, and as a result, they drop out of school. The agency said Nigeria is the second largest in the world.

Rauf Oyewole, Bauchi

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