EFFECT OF EARLY MARRIAGE AND ITS IMPLICATION ON GIRL CHILD EDUCATION IN BADE EMIRATE. YOBE STATE, NIGERIA

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The Effect of Early Marriage and its Implications on Girl Child Education has been studied in Bade Emirate council which includes Bade and Jakusko Local Government Areas. An opinion survey research design was used in which a total of one hundred (100) respondents were randomly sampled (50 from each LGA). These consist of married and unmarried males and females aged between 14-25 years. A validated questionnaire was used as an instrument of data collection. The questionnaire is divided into two sections A and B, section A is for personal information while section B is for the four (4) figure scale (S.A = strongly agree, A = agree, S.D = strongly disagree, D = disagree). The result indicates that there are lots of negative social, educational and health implications on Girl Child that marry only in Bade Emirate Council as shown in Tables 1,2,3and 4.

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