AS Nigeria joins rest of the world to commemorate 2021 International Day of the Girl Child, Monday, a Civil Society organization, Save the Children International, disclosed that child marriage kills over 60 girls daily.
According to a report 44 pecent of girls are married off before their 18th birthday and that has resulted to the death of girls, through child birth and others through abortion.
With the highest rate of child marriage in the world, West and central Africa account to nearly half (9,600) of all estimated child marriage related death globally or 26 death daily.
The organization said that, “Rates are not likely to decrease today as Nigerian girls are living in one of the most difficult times. As a result of armed conflict, humanitarian crisis, kidnapping, natural disaster, displacement, COVID-19 pandemic and economic recession, the lives of millions of girls are threatened to be pushed into the basket of deprivation, including reduced access to education, nutrition, lack of protection and lack of access to basic social services, the State of Nigerian Girls Report showed.
With the highest rate of child marriage in the world, West and Central Africa accounts for nearly half (9,600) of all estimated child marriage-related deaths globally, or 26 deaths a day. The regional teenage maternal mortality rate is four times higher than anywhere else in the world.
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