The government describes the program as a way to support low-income families and promote social stability. Among those married were people who lost family members in violent attacks.
Some 1,500 couples got married at a mass wedding organized by Abba Kabir Yusuf, the governor of Kano state, in northern Nigeria.
The regional government described the two-day event as a way to support low-income families and promote social stability.
"The whole idea for the marriage is to help our families and we husbands who are not financially stable to marry; that's why the government is helping us get married," groom Abubakar Aliyu Musa told the Associated Press.
This is the second time Yusuf's administration has organized a mass wedding.
