{"id":60683,"date":"2013-12-21T21:48:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T17:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=60683"},"modified":"2013-12-21T21:48:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T17:48:01","slug":"here-come-the-brides-mass-wedding-in-nigeria-sees-1000-muslim-couples-tie-the-knot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=60683","title":{"rendered":"Here come the brides: Mass wedding in Nigeria sees 1,000 Muslim couples tie the knot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/nigeria-Mass-wedding.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-60680\" alt=\"\u0546\u056b\u0563\u0565\u0580\u056b\u0561,\u057a\u057d\u0561\u056f\u0561\u0564\u0580\u0578\u0582\u0569\u0575\u0578\u0582\u0576, \u0574\u0561\u0570\u0574\u0565\u0564\u0561\u056f\u0561\u0576 \u0566\u0578\u0582\u0575\u0563\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/nigeria-Mass-wedding.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/nigeria-Mass-wedding.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/nigeria-Mass-wedding-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/nigeria-Mass-wedding-482x300.jpg 482w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,000 Muslim couples tied the knot at a mass wedding Thursday in Nigeria&#8217;s second city of Kano, part of a government programme aimed at promoting stable families.<\/p>\n<p>The elaborate event at the city&#8217;s central mosque included 1,111 previously divorced women and an equal number of men, many of whom had also been married before.<\/p>\n<p>The mass wedding programme was launched last year by the state government and sharia police, or Hisbah, who enforce Islamic law, in response to what officials have described as a divorce epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>Hisbah chief Aminu Daurawa said the programme has arranged 4,461 marriages over the last 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>Under the match-making programme, the state government pays the traditional bride price, provides brides with furniture and seed money to start a small business.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; More than 1,000 Muslim couples tied the knot at a mass wedding Thursday in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":60680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[5131,5132,2434],"class_list":["post-60683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-mass-wedding","tag-muslim-couple","tag-nigeria","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}