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  • Abiodun warns against illegal attempts to establish Sharia Court in Ogun

    Abiodun warns against illegal attempts to establish Sharia Court in Ogun

    The Ogun Government has warned against illegal attempts to establish a Sharia Court in the state.

    Gov. Dapo Abiodun, in a statement issued in Abeokuta on Tuesday, said Sharia Courts could not be legally constituted by individuals or groups without legal backing.

    According to him, the government was reacting to a notice announcing the launch of a Sharia Court in the state.

    Abiodun explained that the government only recognised courts established through the legal framework of the Nigerian Constitution.

    He adds that a Sharia Court does not form part of the legal framework operating in the state.

    “The Ogun State Government has noted the circulation of a digital notice announcing the launch of a Sharia Court in Ogun State.

    “No Sharia Court is authorised to operate within Ogun State.

    “The courts that are legally empowered to adjudicate disputes arising within Ogun State are those established by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria or by State Laws.

    “These are: Magistrates’ Courts, High Court, Customary Courts, Customary Court of Appeal, Federal High Court, National Industrial Court, Court of Appeal, and Supreme Court.

    “No law operating in Ogun State has established a Sharia Court, and Sharia law does not form part of the legal framework by which the Ogun State Government administers and governs society,” he said.

    Abiodun, however, said the government would uphold and protect the rights of individuals to practice the religion of their choice, or to subscribe to no religion.

    According to him, the government recognises the freedom of individuals to apply their faith in their personal and private matters.

    “The Ogun State Government hereby directs that all persons involved in the creation or operation of this unauthorised court must immediately cease all related activities and disband the illegal entity and all its apparatus.

    “The government also advises members of the public to disregard any summons, documents, or persons associated with the illegal Sharia Court.

    “The Ogun State Government will uphold the rule of law, ensure respect for the legal and judicial framework within the state, and prevent a breakdown of law and order,” he said.

  • Enforce Sharia laws in states practicing it, insecurity will naturally fade off – HRM, AVM, Ararile+Photos

    Enforce Sharia laws in states practicing it, insecurity will naturally fade off – HRM, AVM, Ararile+Photos

    …says as at today those states have the highest insecurity rate in Nigeria

    The Ovie of Umiaghwa-Abraka Kingdom, HRM, AVM Lucky Ochuko Ararile (Rtd), has said if Sharia is enforced in the northern states practicing it, insecurity in the north will naturally fade off.

    The retired Air Vice Marshall and pioneer Managing Director of NAF Foundation made this disclosure in a chat with TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) at the weekend.

    He said what the then Governor of Zamfara Sani Yerima championed(Sharia) in 1999 and has blossomed in other states of the north is the weapon required to tackle insecurity.

    According to him, if Sharia is fully implemented nobody will ever go into bloodletting as its weight is heavy.

    “Look if you remember in 1999 when Yerima felt his mandate is to introduce Sharia and our president then, Obasanjo waved it saying it was political Sharia, it’s that same Sharia they need now to combat insecurity in the north.

    “Also, don’t forget that a man was caught in Zamfara for stealing a goat and the Sharia he got was amputation if his hands.

    “Once this is done, insecurity in the north will fizzle out as those who violate the Sharia will get amputated and other punitive measures.

    “If you take a closer look at the Northern states that insecurity is in full gear, they’re the Sharia states, from Zamfara to Borno.

    “So if you have Sharia use it to achieve the purpose of securing lives of your people as it will go a long way in curbing crimes.

    TNG recalls that in 1999/2000 Sharia was instituted as a main body of civil and criminal law in twelve Muslim-majority states when then-Zamfara State governor Ahmad Sani Yerima began the push for the institution of Sharia at the state level of government. A “declaration of full Sharia law” was made in the twelve states in that year, and the states created Islamic legal institutions such as a Sharia Commission, and Zakat Commission, and a hisbah, i.e. “a group expected to promote Islamic tenents.

  • Kano court sentences two brothers to prison for throwing passes at a married woman

    Kano court sentences two brothers to prison for throwing passes at a married woman

    A sharia court sitting in Kano has ordered that two brothers namely, Saifullahi Hamisu, Mujahid Hamisu and one Hassana Surajo, be remanded in prison custody for allegedly making amorous advances to a married woman in the state.

    The three of them were sent to prison on Wednesday, fourth of January.

    The defendants, who are residents of a community,  Bachirawa Quarters Kano, are facing a three-count charge of aiding, abetting, and throwing passes at  a married woman.

    The Prosecutor, Mr Aliyu Abideen, told the court that one Abubakar Ahmad of Fagge Quarters Kano reported the matter at SCID Bompai Kano on Dec.22, 2022.

    Abideen alleged that on the same date at about 4:00pm the defendant criminally conspired and trespassed into the house of the complainant situated at Dorayi Quarters, Kano.

    “The defendants pretended to be relatives of the complainant’s wife (Fatima Alhassan).

    “As a result, the complainant discovered that the first defendant Saifullahi was enticing his wife and were chatting on WhatsApp.

    “The said Saifullahi was the ex-boyfriend of the complaint’s wife.”

    Saifullahi pleaded not guilty while the second and third defendants pleaded guilty to the charge.

    He said that the offence contravened the Kano State Shari’a Law.

  • Housewife runs back to parents’ home over bedroom duties after one year in marriage

    Housewife runs back to parents’ home over bedroom duties after one year in marriage

    A housewife, Zainab Yunusa has ran back to her parent’s home just after one year of marriage over what she has described as unusual s3x demands from her husband, Alhaji Ali Garba.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that Yunusa has also approached a Sharia Court in Magajin Gari, Kaduna State to dissolve the marriage to Alhaji Garba, over the matter.

    The plaintiff told the court on Wednesday that Garba demands sex even while she is menstruating, adding that he even demanded s3x during the Ramadan fast.

    Yunusa said they lived together only for a year as a couple, adding that she has since moved back to her parent’s house over the matter.

    The plaintiff explained that during their stay together, Garba usually come home in the afternoon when she was on her menstrual cycle to demand s3x, which she said is against Islamic doctrine.

    “During Ramadan fasting, he usually comes back home in the afternoon and demands for s3x, and whenever I refuse, he gets angry and always gets offended.

    “And when I ask him for food, he usually replies that I should go and meet my boyfriend to feed me. He never trusted me to the extent that he never allowed anybody including my male or female relatives to visit me,” she told the court.

    The woman said she run away from her matrimonial home, as she could not satisfy her husband’s appetite for sex. She, therefore, prayed the court to dissolve the marriage, as she was not ready to succumb to her husband’s unusual sex demands in disobedience to God.

    The husband, however, denied the claims, saying that Yunusa had filed many allegations against him in different courts. Garba, told the court through his counsel, Mr M.A Sambo, that his wife’s mother went to his house in his absence, packed and sold his properties, before leaving with her daughter.

    He said that the mother had promised to return all that they took from his house during a settlement meeting. He listed items removed to include a set of chairs worth N100,000, television set, two refrigerators, N35,000 worth of plates and other kitchen utensils, 20 yards of leather carpet and mattress worth N15,000.

    Garba prayed the court to consider his request for the return of his properties as a precondition for his acceptance of the divorce request. The Judge, Murtala Nasir, after listening to both parties, ordered the plaintiff to come to court with her mother on the next hearing date. He adjourned the case to Sept. 27, for continuation of hearing.

  • Court dissolves 23-year-old marriage after eight children between man, his grand niece

    Court dissolves 23-year-old marriage after eight children between man, his grand niece

    A High Shari’a Court in Zamafara State has dissolved a 23-year-old marriage between Musa Tsafe and his grand niece, Wasila, despite having had eight children in the union.

    The development took place in Tsafe, Tsafe Local Government Area of the State on Tuesday.

    Delivering a ruling, the Presiding Judge, Malam Bashir Mahe, dissolved the marriage after a hearing from both the prosecution and defence counsels.

    Mahe held that the marriage between Tsafe and Wasila was contrary to the teachings of Islam.

    The judge said marriage between the couple contradict Qur’an chapter 3 verse 23, page 79 and page 77 of a book on Islamic teachings, Ihkamil Ihkami.

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    He explained that the verdict came after the inability of the defence counsel to prove otherwise.

    The Hisbah Commission filed the suit seeking a dissolution of the 23-year-old union.

    The commission told the court that the marriage between Tsafe and Wasila was against Sharia laws and Islamic jurisprudence.

    The commission said it was compelled to file a case against the couple after efforts by the Islamic Advisory Council(Shura) and the Tsafe Emirate since 2020 yielded no fruit.

    Counsel to the commission, Malam Sani Muhammed, told the court that investigations by various Islamic bodies and the emirate showed that the couple who got married some time in 1999 are directly related and so marriage is forbidden between them.

    Muhammed said the act contravenes the teachings of Islam as indicated in the Holy Qur’an chapter three verse 23 and prayed the court to immediately terminate the marriage.

  • Judge orders man to hug wife in court

    Judge orders man to hug wife in court

    A Sharia Court sitting in Magajin Gari, Kaduna State, on Tuesday ordered a man, Yusuf Maiwada, to hug his wife, Nafisa Jibril in court.

    The Judge, Nuhu Falalu said:”lack of affection from Maiwada prompted his wife to seek divorce”.

    The Judge also ordered him to give his wife money in the court.

    ”The court orders you to bring her and their three children back to his house and pay for their feeding in arrears,” he said.

    He adjourned the case until Sept. 9, for report of settlement and compliance of his orders by the defendant.

    Earlier, the complainant, Jibril in her petition sought divorce because he has failed to provide for the family.

    Jibril also alleged that Maiwada beat her and ordered her out of his house and to take her children along.

  • Gunmen abduct Shari’a Court judge inside court in Katsina

    Gunmen abduct Shari’a Court judge inside court in Katsina

    Gunmen have abducted a judge at a Shari’a Court located between Baure Zaka villages in Safana Local Government Area of Katsina State.

    The judge, simply identified as Alhaji Husaini Sama’ila was, according to a resident (name withheld), kidnapped at about 3:00 pm today while on a personal visit to the court which was relocated to Safana for security purposes.

    He said the judge was recently moved to Safana town to continue to deliver justice because of the worsening insecurity challenges bedeviling the two villages where the court was established earlier.

    Meanwhile, the police authorities in the state are yet to confirm the incident.

  • Inheritance sharing: Late Niger governor’s son drags mother to Sharia Court

    Inheritance sharing: Late Niger governor’s son drags mother to Sharia Court

    Umar Kure, one of the sons of the late ex-Niger governor Abdulkadir Kure, has taken his mother Senator Zainab Kure to the Sharia Court of Appeal, Niger State.

    Kure is challenging the distribution of his father’s estate by an Upper Sharia Court/Administrator.

    He listed the widow, three other children of the deceased and the estate of his late father as respondents in a motion on notice filed as No SCA/NS/CV/O4/2020 against the decision of the court/administrator in Suit No USC/MK/CV/139.

    The applicant is seeking an order of the Sharia Court of Appeal for extension of time to seek leave to appeal, another order for leave of the court to appeal and an order for extension of time within which to file the notice of appeal.

    In a 16-paragraph affidavit in support of the motion, a person named Blessing Abraham deposed that “the appellant is dissatisfied with the decision of the trial court/administrator in the distribution of the estate in question.”

    She noted that the appellant and his counsel were not present on the date the purported distribution was made and that he was not aware of the sharing of the estate on December 11, 2019 until he was served the decision on January 27, 2020, thereby elapsing the 30 days within which he could appeal.

    Umar is also challenging the distribution of his father’s estate without payment of all debts of the deceased, adding that he was not given fair hearing in the distribution of the estate.

  • Blasphemy: We have no objection to death sentence of Kano singer, Aminu – CAN

    Blasphemy: We have no objection to death sentence of Kano singer, Aminu – CAN

    The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has reacted to the death sentence passed on a Kano singer, Yahaya Aminu Sharif who was convicted of blasphemy by a Shari’a Court.

    Adeolu Samuel Adeyemo, the Kano state chairman of CAN said the religious body does not object to the ruling because it is according to the position of Islam.

    His words: “For us in CAN, the judgment of the Shari’a court is according to Islamic law and so we don’t have objection to it because it is according to the position of Islam.”

    Adeyemo added that religious tolerance should be upheld for a harmonious atmosphere to reign in the society.

    He pointed out that blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is a grievous sin that can not be forgiven.

    “So, our interference is not relevant. Now, if you want to know the position of Christianity about blasphemy, I will say there is what you can blaspheme about and what you cannot. And the Lord Jesus said blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is a grievous sin that has no forgiveness. That is the position of Christianity,” he said.

  • Musician bags death sentence in Kano for blasphemous song

    Musician bags death sentence in Kano for blasphemous song

    A Sharia Court in Kano State has sentenced to death a 22-year-old musician known as Yahaya Sharif Aminu for making a song that allegedly blaspheme against Prophet Muhammad.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports the presiding judge at the court, Khadi Aliyu Muhammad Kani found Aminu guilty and sentenced him to death by hanging on Monday.

    Aminu, who is said to be a member of the Islamic Tijjaniya sect and Faidha group, was arrested after a protest by Muslim youths in the State.

    The musician, who resides in Sharifai in Kano metropolis was accused of committing blasphemy against the Prophet in a song he circulated via WhatsApp in March 2020.

    The Muslim youths had threatened to take laws into their hands. They had earlier set ablaze the family house of the musician in Kano municipality.

    The court had also sentenced one Umar Farouq of Sharada area of Kano metropolis to 10 years imprisonment for making derogatory statements concerning the Almighty Allah in a public argument.