The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has called on the Federal Government to review the Nigerian marriage laws with the aim of allowing women to bear their father’s names after marriage. MURIC’s executive director, Prof Ishaq Akintola, made the call in a statement he issued on Monday. Akintola is of the opinion that the current practice that permits women to bear only their husbands’ surnames is wrong, describing it as gender discriminatory, archaic, and oppressive. He argued that it is unfair for a man who did not take part in the upbringing of a woman to suddenly surface and change her surname….