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Most Marriages Conducted In Religious Houses Are Illegal, Only 314 Worship Centres Have Licence – FG

Tobias Sylvester
By Tobias Sylvester
Published: July 25, 2019
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Most Marriages Conducted In Religious Houses Are Illegal, Only 314 Worship Centres Have Licence - FG 1

Most marriages done in religious houses in Nigeria could be considered illegal as the Federal Government has revealed that most worship centres administering marriages in the country lack the license to do so under the statutory Marriage Act.

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Interior, Barr. Georgina E. Ehuriah declared this Wednesday in Abuja while addressing at a one-day stakeholders’ conference on the conduct of statutory marriages in accordance with the Marriage Act cap, M6, LFN 2004 as amended.

“At present, only about 4, 689 licensed places of worship in Nigeria have updated their records with the Ministry of Interior, of which only 314 have renewed their licenses.

“The implication of this is that marriages conducted in unlicensed places of worship are not in line with the Marriage Act and cannot serve legal purposes when the need arises, and such unlicensed places of worship are operating contrary to Section 6(1) of the Marriage Act,” she said.

According to her, the decision to organize the stakeholders’ conference was necessitated by the ministry’s experience in the discharge of its duties “which pointed to the fact that there are extant issues in the administration of the conduct of statutory marriages which require the joint attention of key stakeholders.”

She noted that while the also developed a database of all places of worship licensed for celebration of marriages, urging stakeholders to take advantage of the Conference to discuss the major challenges they face in complying with the provisions of the Act.

The Permanent Secretary said she had already put in place machinery to kick start the process for the amendment of the Act to adequately meet the needs of citizens in the 21st century.

“Also, arrangements are on-going to give couples whose certificates were not issued in line with the Act the opportunity to bring them to conformity”.

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