Allow married women to bear their father’s name, it beats logic for a husband to commandeer a woman’s parental identity by marrying her – MURIC

Allow married women to bear their father’s name, it beats logic for a husband to commandeer a woman’s parental identity by marrying her – MURIC

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has urged the Federal Government to reconsider Nigerian marriage laws to permit women to retain their father’s names after marriage. Prof Ishaq Akintola, MURIC’s executive director, expressed this view in a statement on Monday, labeling the existing practice of women adopting only their husbands’ surnames as gender discriminatory…
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