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…
A Shari’a Court sitting in Kano on Thursday ordered that two men be remanded in a correction centre for allegedly threatening to deal with a politician. The police charged Salisu Ibrahim, and Izzadin Ahmed, who reside in Gwammaja Quarters in…
A businessman, Isma’il Alfa, on Wednesday demanded N250,000 from his estranged wife Maryam Adamu, who filed a suit seeking for divorce in a Sharia Court in Magajin Gari, Kaduna. Alfa, who was represented by his counsel A.A. Liman said he…
Gov. Simon Lalong of Plateau state, on Monday swore in four new judges of the Plateau State High Court and a Khadi of the Sharia Court of Appeal in Jos. The new judges are Justices Elizabeth Angai-Ibrahim, Ladi Madaki, J.…
