A NIGERIAN teenager has burnt herself to death in protest at a marriage imposed on her by her father. Binta Gambo, 18, set herself on fire on Monday in despair at the marriage forced on her two months ago. Kano Radio Corporation said. Gambo, from Mararrabar Musawa in Katsina State, northern Nigeria had apparently told her father, Gambo Denkanen Tela that she wanted a divorce from the husband she had never accepted, the radio said. The husband had also told the father the marriage would not work and asked him to approve a separation, but he refused, it added. Neighbours heard Gambo’s screams after she set herself alight, but they failed to save her. She died in hospital on Monday. Forced marriages occur often in Nigeria where young women are regularly ordered to accept their parents’ choice of husband.