The elaborate event at the city’s central
mosque included 1,111 previously divorced women and an equal number of men.
“We are gathered here today to solemnise the weddings of 1,111 couples under Kano state’s mass wedding programme,” Deputy Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje said at the ceremony, the fourth of its kind since May 2012.
The state government during the matchmaking process pays the bride price , provide the bride with money to start a business.
The mass wedding programme was launched last year by the state government and sharia police, or Hisbah, who enforce Islamic law.
The whole idea is to curb divorce rate.
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