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VALIDITY OF FOREIGN MARRIAGES UNDER THE NIGERIAN MARRIAGE ACT

It is not out of place for Nigerians living abroad to meet the love of their lives while in sojourn in another country. It is easy and almost straight-forward if both parties are citizens of Nigeria and have their domicil as Nigeria. The challenge is usually in situations where one of the parties (especially the husband) is not a Nigerian or where the parties desire to contract the marriage in their country of habitation but under the Nigerian Marriage Act or where parties have contracted the marriage under the laws of the jurisdiction of habitation but desire to file for divorce in Nigerian Courts.   The usual practice among Nigerians living abroad has been to invite their spouses to Nigeria in order to perform the marriage processes in a Marriage Registry in Nigeria. However, with the recent restrictions as a result of the global pandemic, questions are being asked whether there are other ways parties who desire to be married under the Marriage Act of Nigeria but who live in fo...