{
  "id": 13996269,
  "title": "Nigeria: Ezekwesili Urges FG, States to Enforce 18-Year Minimum Marriage Age",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/nigeria-ezekwesili-urges-fg-states-to-enforce-18-year-minimum",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-12T15:02:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "AllAfrica",
    "slug": "allafrica",
    "url": "https://allafrica.com/stories/202610120519.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "[Vanguard] Obiageli Ezekwesili, former Minister of Education, has called on the Federal Government and state governments to enforce 18 as the minimum age of marriage across Nigeria, warning that child marriage continues to undermine girls' education and the country's human capital development.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}