Nigerian church has banned the wedding of jobless couples.
This online news platform a Facebook user, Chioma Ifeanyi-Eze, took to Facebook to reveal that a church she knows of has made a new rule to ban getting jobless couples married in its church premises.
Taking to her Facebook page, Ifeanyi-Eze, noted that the church maintained that couples who wish to get married will provide personal bank statement and a confirmation letter from their employers (if employed).
Secondly, the Facebook user each couple will have to pay a fee for professional investigators to run background checks on them. After all these are done and the couples aren’t jobless, the wedding date will be fixed.
The Facebook user wrote: “I recently heard of a church that would not wed a couple if both parties are not earning income.
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“Each party even has to submit personal bank statement and a confirmation letter from your employer (if employed).
“Each party pays a fee for professional investigators to run background checks on them.”