Editing Child marriage (section)

====Nigeria====
As of 2006, 15–20% of school dropouts in Nigeria were the result of child marriage.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nguyen, Minh Cong and Quentin Wodon. 2012. "Child Marriage and Education: A Major Challenge". |url=http://www.ungei.org/files/Child_Marriage_Edu_Note.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190818222110/http://www.ungei.org/files/Child_Marriage_Edu_Note.pdf |archive-date=18 August 2019 |access-date=8 May 2015}}</ref> In 2013, Nigeria attempted to change Section 29, Subsection 4 of its laws and thereby prohibit child marriages. Christianity and Islam are each practiced by roughly half of its population, and the country continues with personal laws from its [[Colonial Nigeria|British colonial-era]] laws, in which child marriages are forbidden for its Christians and allowed for its Muslims.<ref>{{cite news |title=Nigeria: Senate Denies Child Marriage Wrongdoing, Says Law May Be Revisited |url=http://allafrica.com/stories/201307240287.html |work=[[AllAfrica]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=More on child brides: After a political fight, Nigeria will continue allowing them |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/07/24/more-on-child-brides-after-a-political-fight-nigeria-will-continue-allowing-them/}}</ref> In Nigeria, child marriage is a divisive topic and widely practiced. In northern states, which are predominantly Muslim, over 50% of the girls marry before the age of 15.<ref>{{cite news |date=4 September 2013 |title=Nigeria – Child Not Bride |work=[[AllAfrica]] |url=http://allafrica.com/stories/201309040944.html}}</ref>