{"id":235638,"date":"2026-06-26T15:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=235638"},"modified":"2026-06-26T15:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:57:19","slug":"pr-shot-mass-weddings-as-welfare-and-the-politics-of-priorities-by-ahmed-balarabe-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=235638","title":{"rendered":"PR SHOT: Mass Weddings as Welfare and the Politics of Priorities, by Ahmed Balarabe Sa\u2019id"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The debate over the Kano mass wedding programme is not really about marriage. It is about governance, development philosophy, and how governments choose to deploy scarce public resources in an era of widespread economic hardship.<br \/>\nThe post PR SHOT: Mass Weddings as Welfare and the Politics of Priorities&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economicconfidential.com\/pr-shot-mass-weddings\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The debate over the Kano mass wedding programme is not really about marriage. It is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":235639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235638-pr-shot-mass-weddings-as-welfare-and-the-politics-of-priorities-by-ahmed-balarabe-said.jpg",758,533,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235638-pr-shot-mass-weddings-as-welfare-and-the-politics-of-priorities-by-ahmed-balarabe-said-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235638-pr-shot-mass-weddings-as-welfare-and-the-politics-of-priorities-by-ahmed-balarabe-said-300x211.jpg",300,211,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235638-pr-shot-mass-weddings-as-welfare-and-the-politics-of-priorities-by-ahmed-balarabe-said.jpg",640,450,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235638-pr-shot-mass-weddings-as-welfare-and-the-politics-of-priorities-by-ahmed-balarabe-said.jpg",640,450,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235638-pr-shot-mass-weddings-as-welfare-and-the-politics-of-priorities-by-ahmed-balarabe-said.jpg",758,533,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235638-pr-shot-mass-weddings-as-welfare-and-the-politics-of-priorities-by-ahmed-balarabe-said.jpg",758,533,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235638-pr-shot-mass-weddings-as-welfare-and-the-politics-of-priorities-by-ahmed-balarabe-said.jpg",758,533,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235638-pr-shot-mass-weddings-as-welfare-and-the-politics-of-priorities-by-ahmed-balarabe-said.jpg",758,533,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235638-pr-shot-mass-weddings-as-welfare-and-the-politics-of-priorities-by-ahmed-balarabe-said-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/235639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}