In September 2013, hundreds of single women led by Suwaiba Isa stormed the streets of Gusau, the capital of Zamfara State, protesting the scarcity of husbands for more than 8,000 of them. A similar protest earlier planned by Hajiya Altine Abdullahi for widows and unmarried Kano women in August 2009 was averted by Kano State Government which quickly arranged a mass wedding for 1,000 women in the state. At 35, Godiya Adamu is yet to find a husband; a situation she blamed on her inability to find a man who...