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A large indoor gathering of couples dressed in colorful traditional attire during a mass wedding ceremony in northern Nigeria.

Mass weddings in Nigeria offer couples relief from rising wedding costs

Mass wedding ceremonies, in which dozens or sometimes hundreds of couples are married together in a single event, have emerged in Nigeria as a way for couples to formalise their unions without bearing the heavy costs of traditional weddings, according to Al Jazeera. Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country with more than 200 million people, is […]

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A group wedding ceremony in a large decorated hall with multiple couples standing together in formal attire.

Nigeria’s mass weddings: easing the cost of marriage, and the challenge of weeding out fraud

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Organisers of a mass wedding scheme in Nigeria are working to help couples overcome the steep financial demands of getting married, while grappling with the awkward task of distinguishing genuine partners from opportunistic fraudsters, according to BBC News. The programme is designed for couples who cannot afford the significant costs traditionally associated with marriage in

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A large communal wedding ceremony in northern Nigeria with rows of couples seated under a tent, the men in embroidered caps and robes, the w

Nigeria: 1,500 couples married in Kano State mass wedding

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A state-sponsored mass wedding ceremony in Kano State, northern Nigeria, has united more than 1,500 couples in a single event aimed at easing the financial burden of marriage for low-income families, according to local officials and as reported by Africanews. The ceremony, organised by the Kano State Government, brought together grooms and brides from across

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