On Saturday, the Kano State governor, Abba Yusuf, and other government officeholders performed a mass marriage ceremony for 1,800 couples.
The wedding was funded and conducted by the state government as N50,000 in marriage settlement was paid on behalf of each groom to their brides.
It was gathered that some of the wedding couples were widows and divorcees.
The wedded couples received beds, bedding, food, and clothes from the state government.
Also present at the event was Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, former presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP).





