A Sharia court in Nigeria has forced the 16-year-old daughter of a Christian church leader to convert to Islam and marry her Muslim boss.

Janet Habila, who has been working as an apprentice to a tailor identified only as Nasiru, was forced to marry her Muslim boss without her parents’ consent.

Habila was enrolled by her father in Nasiru’s tailoring school in the Erena district of the Shiroro Local Government Area after she refused to further her education beyond primary school.

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