CUSTOMARY LAW OF MARRIAGE - CHILD MARRIAGE

Marriage has a prestigious and foremost place in the Nigeria culture like in other Africa cultures, customarily, so much importance is attached to the institution of marriage and it is normal condition for   both men   and women. Marriage is a longing in the heart of many girls, as an indispensable function to be fulfilled with as little delay as possible after the age of puberty. So important was this institution that  an  married  man or woman was considered as  incomplete and  a few satirical songs were  composed for such group of people  in  the  Hausa a culture, there is an adage that say  a man without a wife is like a big  tree  without fruit  Ibrahim 1998.

 
It is common to see marring being contracted both under statutory law an customary law. The reason is that, even in modern time marriage in Nigeria is seen as a purely family matter to which family consent is needed prior to the marriage in Nigerian is seen as a purely family matters to which family consent  is needed prior to the  marriage.  This has resulted in the existence of a plural law of succession   of property. In modern homes, family domination during the existence of the marriage is less as, couples, due to urbanization and migration prefer their extended family.
The  notion that  marriage is subconsciously or consciously regarded as a union between two different families and not only  the  couple is displayed during  the traditional  marriage ceremony even  when the parties  to the marriage  are matured adults.
Male cutters in Nigeria patriarchal, therefore emphasizing male dominance. A country especially the Igbo cultural is Abia state are matrilineal. The patriarchal cultural is greatly portrayed during traditional marriage ceremonies   at least to the exclusion of the mother of the bride  and the birder

CHILD MARRIAGE: was a common form of marriage under the three cultures, which   unfortunately, is still practiced in some   rural communities especially in the Hausa culture in the northern state of Nigeria.   
Under the practices a girl from  birth was  bethroed to a man  to whom she  will be formally married to between the ages of eight and ten.  According  to sabbatou  (1998) in  answer to a question on the practice of child  marriage  set  father  answered this, this  practice existed before I was born and there is no use complaining about   it my daughter listen to me, I  married your mother  at the same  age.
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