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The Senate Committee on ICT has put the Ministry of Education to task over a policy and strategy unit study that revealed that at least 160,000 school girls got married when schools closed between June 2020 and February 2021.
The study titled "Impact of Covid-19 on Adolescent" further revealed that an additional 100,000 girls became mothers in the same period.
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