FILE Grooms dressed in white robes and red caps walk on the street of Kano to attend a wedding reception at the Kano state governor’s office after taking part in a mass wedding at the central mosque in Kano city, Kano State, Nigeria, on October 14, 2023. – The mass wedding is sponsored by the Kano State government in Nigeria to help widows and divorcees get remarried. (Photo by Kola Sulaimon / AFP)
The Kebbi Government, in collaboration with the Nafisa Nasir Charity Development Foundation (NANAS), has concluded arrangements to conduct a mass wedding for 300 couples on July 27.
The News Agency of Nigeria NAN reports that the event tagged “Inclusive Mass Wedding” comprised both Muslim and Christian couples who fulfilled the criteria set by the committee.
The Chairman of the Organising Committee and National Organising Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Suleiman Argungu, disclosed this while briefing journalists in Birnin Kebbi on Tuesday.
Argungu, a former Deputy Governor of the state, said the beneficiaries, comprising 600 prospective Muslim and Christian spouses, were drawn from the 21 Local Government Areas of the state.
