A 22-year-old Kano musician, Yahaya Shariff-Aminu, who was sentenced to death for blaspheming Prophet Mohammed, has filed a notice of appeal before a Kano State High Court, describing the practice of Sharia law in the state as unconstitutional and undemocratic, DALY TIMES gathered. Shariff-Aminu was sentenced to death by an Upper Sharia Court on 10th […]
Bello Shagari, one of the grandsons of former Nigerian President Shehu Shagari, has urged all religious sects to focus on their beliefs and not interfere with others. Shagari said this following the death sentence of a musician, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, given in an Upper Sharia Court in Kano State for blaspheming Prophet Muhammad. READ ALSO: 22 […]
Yesterday, Daily Times reported that a court in Kano State had sentenced a musician to death by hanging for blasphemy against Prophet Muhammad. The 22-year-old Yahaya Sharif was sentenced in line with Section 382 (b) of Kano penal code of 2000. Sharia Law, a brainchild of the Nigerian Legal System, was first enshrined by the extremist […]
Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has asked Biafrans to ask Northerners Who in Nigeria today voted for Sharia Law to be practised in Nigerian Northern and how did they get Sharia to be in the constitution of Nigeria and practised in their states. The IPOB leader in a live […]
Motolani Oseni The National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) has granted approval in principle (AIP) to Cornerstone Takaful Insurance Company Ltd and Salam Takaful Insurance Company Ltd. This was contained in a statement issued by the Head, Corporate Affairs of the Commission, Rasaaq Salami, stating that the companies will operate as composite Takaful operators to transact both […]
In the past four years, Nigeria has been under siege from the Boko Haram, a rag tag group of fundamentalists with a mission to convert the country to an Islamic theocracy. Before now, there was the tendency to dismiss the threat as nothing but a manageable irritation. But as the Boko Haram insurgency assumed a […]