A 29 year-old man, Mustapha Alasan, was on Tuesday docked in a Sharia court in Kano State for allegedly assaulting his neighbour. The police charged Alasan, who lives in Darmanawa Quarters in Kano with assault and causing bodily harm. The…
…Sharia Law is a constitutional right for Muslims — MULAN Chairman …Sharia incompatible with S’West culture, can’t work in Yorubaland – Anikulapo-Kuti …National discourse on Sharia Law must be based on facts, clarity – Ibiyemi By Ismail Azeez and Austine…
The Ogun State Government has released a warning against any attempt to establish a Sharia Court in the state. The state government, in a statement personally signed by the Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, noted that Sharia Courts cannot be legally…
A middle-aged man, Abdullahi Sani from Unguwar Makara Huta, has been sentenced to death by stoning by a Sharia Court in Ningi, the headquarters of Ningi Local Government Area of Bauchi State, for alleged homosexuality. The judgment was delivered by…
A businessman, Sani Hassan, on Wednesday dragged one Maimuna Ishaq to a Shari’a court sitting at Magajin Gari, Kaduna State, for allegedly calling him an adulterer. The complainant told the court that he heard Ishaq telling people that he…
A 27-year-old labourer, Aminu Shuaibu, was on Thursday docked in a Sharia Court sitting in Kano for allegedly stealing nine packs of rubber toys worth N54,000. The defendant, who lives in Kofar waika Quarters, Kano, is charged with theft. The…
A Kano Shari’a Court on Tuesday sentenced a 20-year-old man, Murtala Halliru, to six months in a correctional centre and ordered that he should be given 30 strokes of the cane for stealing 13 ceiling fans. It was gathered that…
A 20-year-old man, Abdulaziz Shehu, was on Monday ordered to be remanded at the Goron-Dutse correctional centre in Kano until Feb. 6 when he would be arraigned for a summary trial. Shehu was arraigned in a Kano Sharia Court for…
A 48 year-old woman, Aisha Muhammad on Thursday dragged Maryam Yahya her business partner to a Sharia court sitting at Rigasa, Kaduna over N250,00 failed business deal. The complainant told the court that she gave Yahya the sum of N250,000…
A businesswoman, Fatima Ismail, on Wednesday prayed to a Sharia court sitting at Rigasa, Kaduna, to order her former boyfriend, Abubakar Shuaibu, to pay the N180,000 he borrowed from her. Ismail told the court that she loaned Shuaibu N230,000 to…
