Nigeria, Feb. 11 -- "Did you hear the latest trending news from Kano? The state government is planning to spend N2.5 billion for the quarterly mass wedding exercise across the 44 local government areas of the state in 2025. This is happening in a state that has the highest number of out-of-school children (UNICEF estimates about one million) in the country. Do our political leaders ever get their priorities right?"

"You're asking me? I first thought somebody had got his calendar mixed up. But it was too early to play April Fool. The obsession with sponsoring marriages shows a clear lack of imagination. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that it is wrong to assist indigent people who want to get married. What I'm saying is that it is the ...