Sharia

Gender roles, Sharia in South West, Demolition respectability | Top non-binary tweets we saw from Nigeria last week

The task of documenting the trajectory of conversation on non-binary issues – sexuality, gender, mental and emotional health, faith and spirituality and disability – is both a labour of love and duty for us at YNaija. We collated tweets we saw from last week that fit the non-binary blog themes. Some of these tweets add... Read More

Non-binary Blog

Gender Roles, islam, patriarchy, Sharia, Violence against women

February 6, 2021

Religious persecution, Male privilege | Top Non-binary tweets we saw from Nigeria this week

More often than not, the delight of Twitter conversations is in the comebacks original tweets attract. We collated some very interesting tweets from Naija Twitter on conversations that matter in the non-binary space. And of course, some of the fire comebacks they attracted. Enjoy! There is a reason mansplaining remains an enduring problem. The tweet... Read More

Non-binary Blog

feminism, islam, Male Privilege, nigeria, Religious violence, Sharia

February 5, 2021

Shari’ah: A mistake that should never have been allowed

When former Executive Secretary of Nigeria’s Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Professor Usman Yusuf revealed while speaking on Arise News’ The Morning Show that his Somali friends who are currently resident in the United States (US) have been calling him worried. “We are worried about Nigeria, this is how Somalia started,” they said, he was referring... Read More

Non-binary Blog

Hisbah, islam, nigeria, Sharia, terrorism

Hisbah

January 9, 2020

Another day, another arrest of suspected homosexuals by Kano’s hisbah corps

As part of its ‘enforcement’ of Shari’a laws, the Kano state’s para-law enforcement agency, the Hisbah Corps has been instrumental in implementing some of the state’s most confusing directives. It was the jurisdiction of the Hisbah corps to implement the recent ban in the state that forbade people of different sexes from riding in the... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

Abdullahi Ganduje, Sharia, Shehu Tasi'u Is'haq, the Hisbah Corps

October 8, 2017

Sukuk bonds are from sharia…it must be reversed | CAN insists

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has said the Federal Government violated the constitution by issuing Sukuk bonds. The General-Secretary of CAN, Rev. Musa Asake said this in a recent interview with Punch. Background: CAN had alleged that the Federal Government was gradually trying to islamise Nigeria by issuing Sukuk bonds. The Supreme Islamic Council... Read More

CAN, Islamise, nigeria, reversed, Sharia, sukuk bonds

[The Legislative Blog]: This Yobe Senator caught with two women should be flogged in public

“We have enough issues on our hands to begin to discuss a Senator with illicit affairs“, Lagos-based lawyer, Liborous Oshoma said to Premium Times in an interview on the scandalous video of Senator Bukar Ibrahim that emerged on Sunday. The man is right! A Nigerian senator (grown man by the way) trying to satisfy his... Read More

The Legislative Blog

Bukar Ibrahim, scandal, senator, Sharia, yobe

January 15, 2017

Opinion: Every theological law was purposely designed to be broken

by Nimi Princewill Error-free compliance to the law was certainly never intended for humans! Even in Heaven (the Christians’ famous land of perfection) Lucifer jilted the law and got himself thrown out! The first humans, Adam & Eve also had their fair share of nasty behaviour when they transgressed at Eden. As a matter of... Read More

bible, Christianity, opinion, Sharia, THEOLOGY

November 3, 2016

We are yet to pass Sharia bill – House of Reps

The House of Representatives on Thursday says it has not passed a Bill for the implementation of Sharia law in the country. The Deputy Minority Leader of the House, Chukwuka Onyeama said the bill was still before the House ad hoc committee on the review of the constitution. “When a bill for constitutional amendment is brought... Read More

Ad hoc committee, Constitution Review, House of Reps, Leo Ogor, Sharia

Yakubu Dogara

Opinion: Dogara and his terrorists are coming with Sharia Law

By Bayo Oluwasanmi If the Senators or House Reps were not sponsoring the world’s most bizarre bills, they’ll be stirring up the hornet’s net to further divide and polarized the already balkanized nation. The Sharia bill introduced in the House of Representatives will increase the powers and jurisdiction of Sharia law in Nigeria. The bill... Read More

House of Reps, Sharia, sharia Bill, Sharia law, Sokoto State, Yakubu Dogara

Morning Devotion: What to know about the Sharia Bill, Child Protection Agency & other legislative issues

Joachim MacEbong talks about Legislative issues on Morning Devotion today as well as the #ShariaBill and the establishment of a Child Protection Agency. Take a listen below. https://soundcloud.com/ynaijaonline/morning-devotion-episode-13

Featured, The News Blog

Child Protection Agency, joachim macebong, morning devotion, nigeria, senate, Sharia, sharia Bill, ynaija

This series of tweets helps you understand the troublesome #ShariaBill

Author, lawyer and human rights activist, Ayo Sugunro, in this series of tweets explains the implication of the Sharia bill pending before the House of Representative. The Bill, which has scaled through second reading and is currently before the House Committee on constitutional amendment, has far reaching consequences for Nigeria’s legal architecture. Ayo Sugunro, tweeting... Read More

Ayo Sogunro, Constitution, criminal law, House of Rep, law, Sharia, tweets

December 28, 2014

Buhari doesn’t care about you – PDP chieftain tells Christians

by James Sambo Hon. Ehiozuwa Johnson Agbonayinma, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, has advised Christian communities across Nigeria, to avoid being carried away by General Muhammadu Buhari’s recent romance with the faith. According to him, Buhari’s desperation to get elected as president is behind his “overture to the... Read More

All Progressives Congress, Christians, General Muhammadu Buhari, Hon. Ehiozuwa Johnson Agbonayinma, nigeria, Peoples Democratic Party, Sharia

December 26, 2014

Toks Ero: Buhari vs Jonathan – Now that our choices have been narrowed

by Toks Ero I saw a Buhari that seemed to have no more than a pedestrian grasp of the issues that a presidential candidate should be able to debate and argue intelligently. Who will win next year’s Presidential election and assume the position of President come May 29, 2015 is no doubt the most important... Read More

2015, APC, boko haram, channels tv, Goodluck Jonathan, Muhammadu Buhari, PDP, Politics, Sharia

Akin Osuntokun-YNaija

December 19, 2014

Akin Osuntokun: Buhari is an Islamic Fundamentalist!

by Akin Osuntokun Calls for ‘Total’ Sharia in Nigeria 2001-08-27 21:32 Lagos – A former military ruler of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, has called for the introduction of ‘total’ Islamic law across the country, reports said on Monday. Buhari, who ruled Nigeria from a coup in December 1983 to his ouster in 1985, told a seminar... Read More

Akin Osuntokun, demagogue, fundamentalist, Muhammadu Buhari, opinion, Sharia, ynaija

December 14, 2014

Femi Fani-Kayode: Buhari or Jonathan – It’s time to decide

by Femi Fani-Kayode Does he regard Christians as being human beings? Does he accept the fact that Boko Haram are nothing but beasts? Does he recognise the fact that no-one has the right to take the life of another human being in the name of religion? Major General Muhammadu Buhari has emerged as the APC... Read More

boko haram, Femi Fani-Kayode, Goodluck Jonathan, Muhammadu Buhari, Niger Delta, nigeria, Politics, Sharia

October 28, 2014

@MrAyeDee: Why Buhari is not a religious bigot

Aye Dee One of the most popular misconceptions against Muhammadu Buhari is that he is an Islamic fundamentalist. In fact, one of the most popular memes against him is that he had asked muslims to only vote for muslim candidates, and that he is a supporter of islamizing Nigeria (Source): As the year 2003 elections... Read More

Aye Dee, bigot, Muhammadu Buhari, opinion, Religious, Sharia, Sokoto, ynaija

September 24, 2013

Akin Adesokan: Is Boko Haram now an excuse to murder innocent Nigerians?

by Akin Adesokan Knowing the Nigeria state and its way with nebulous categories and phrases, might the now-standard phrase “suspected Boko Haram members” used by the JTF and parroted by the media just be the rhetoric of a negligent system at lazy ease with the brutal killing of defenseless citizens? [NOTE: This column was written... Read More

Akin Adesokan, Alshabab, ayatollah, boko haram, Kenya, nigerian state, north, Sharia

Opinion: The cradle snatching debate – What are we really fighting for?

by Deoye Falade Senator Yerima simply pointed out that in Islam, once a woman is married, she is automatically of age to make all adult decisions, including the right to divorce and renunciation of citizenship, this is as obtains in Nigeria’s constitution. So we’ve done the right thing in the fight against child marriage; protested... Read More

#ChildNotBride, child, Constitution, Customary Law, defective constitution, Deoye Falade, Egyptian, immoral, law, lawyer, Marriage, Media, newspapers, nigeria, petition, Senator Yerima, senators, Sharia

Maryam Uwais takes on Sani Yerima: The Senator and constitutional review

by Maryam Uwais It is interesting that Senator Yerima would rather link the weighty and dispassionate subject of citizenship with his understanding of gender vis a vis his perception of the age of marriage, rather than with other matters of social interaction,…. Once again, Senator Yerima is in the news, claiming Islam as the basis... Read More

constitutional review, Islamic jurists, Maryam Uwais, omojuwa, Senator Yerima, Sharia, Zamfara State

Femi Fani-Kayode: A nation of depraved perverts and paedophiles

by Femi Fani-Kayode …Every single member of the Nigerian Senate that voted with Yerima on that day and that supported his filthy agenda should bow their heads in utter shame and they should be compelled to offer their own infant and under age daughters to strangers for marriage. The Nigerian Senate includes some of the brightest minds in... Read More

#ChildNotBride, Abuja, child marriage, children, Femi Fani-Kayode, law, nigeria, Pakistan, perverts, Religion, Sani Ahmed Yerima, saudi arabia, senate, Sharia

“Free women”: Feminist activists bare breasts in protest at Swedish mosque

Three feminist activists from the radical protest group Femen staged a topless protest inside a Stockholm mosque on Saturday before they were led away by police. The women burst into the mosque and tore off their black robes to bare their breasts, which were emblazoned with slogans such as “No sharia in Egypt and the world” and “My body... Read More

egypt, Femen, islam, oppresion, Sharia, Stockholm, Sweden, topless, Tunisia, ukraine

December 4, 2012

Another bomb blast injures 3 Shari’a guards in Kano

by Akan Ido A bomb explosion in Kano yesterday injured three paramilitary personnel. The Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was said to have been planted by unknown persons by the wall of the Juma’at Praying ground at Kofar Mata, where the paramilitary personnel usually take shelter. The injured officers are from Hisbah Guards, Federal Road Safety... Read More

boko haram, Bomb, frsc, Hisbah, IED, kano, Magaji Majiya, Sharia, terrorism

November 26, 2012

Serious Matter: Housewife sues husband for 10-years of denied bedroom activity

by Isi Esene A housewife today dragged her husband, Isa Mainika, before a Kaduna Sharia Court two in Magajin Gari for allegedly denying her sex for 10 years. The woman, Saratu Haruna, told the court to separate them both saying she does not see any future in the relationship anymore. According to the woman: “We... Read More

court, Isa Mainika, Kaduna State, Magajin Gari, Mallam Ibrahim Inuwa, Saratu Haruna, Sharia

October 26, 2012

TICKER: Virgin birth? Doctor tells court teen mom standing trial is still a virgin

She was 29 weeks pregnant and still a virgin. That diagnosis from a doctor in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, was presented at the trial of a 15-year-old girl who was accused of violating the country’s harsh Sharia laws against sex outside of marriage. The girl, identified only by the initials MM, was examined Aug. 8 and... Read More

dubai, pregnant, Sharia, UAE, virgin

September 2, 2012

Give me my wife: Husband drags mother-in-law to court for “withholding” his wife

by Isi Esene There was drama in a Kaduna Sharia Court yesterday when Malam Mohammed Abdullahi dragged his mother-in-law, Habiba Mohammed, to court for not allowing his wife return to him after the delivery of their baby. Abdullahi’s wife, Sa’ade , was said to have travelled to Kaduna to receive motherly care after delivering her first... Read More

Habiba Mohammed, Ibrahim Inuwa, kaduna, Kogi State, law, Lokoja, Mohammed Abdullahi, Sa'ade Abdullahi, Sharia

August 13, 2012

Freedom: Saudi women get their own city away from men

by Isi Esene Saudi women may soon get an exclusively female city with no form of male interference. This is the crux of a new initiative introduced by the government of Saudi Arabia which seeks to build a city where women will be able live and work in a segregated environment. The industrial city, to... Read More

industry, Jobs, law, men, saudi arabia, Sharia, women

Married couple stoned to death for committing adultery

by Isi Esene A married couple accused of adultery has been stoned to death in the remote Northern Mali city of Aguelhok. They were executed by radical Islamists in northern Mali under the strict Sharia law according to the spokesman for the radical Ansar Dine group. Sanda Ould Bounama, who spoke on behalf of the... Read More

Adultery, Aguelhok, al-Qaida, Ansar Dine, mali, rebels, Sharia

Stock Exchange launches Sharia Equity Index today

by Stanley Azuakola The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has concluded plans to introduce an Islamic Equity Index on the floor of the exchange. The “NSE Lotus Islamic Index” (with the code NSE LII) will début today (Monday) as part of the strategies of the NSE to boost the breadth of the market in Nigeria. It will consist... Read More

Ayo Oritsejafor, Islamic Equity Index, Nigeria stock exchange, NSE LII, Sharia

Boko Haram: Kano policemen ‘arrange’ marriages for widows and divorcées to help build stronger family ties

by Chi Ibe In a bid to restore sanity and peace to the north, Nigerian policemen in Kano have embarked on a match-making scheme. According to AFP reports, the programme run by the Islamic Sharia police in Kano, aims to match widows and divorcees with available men. This they hope will in part help limit... Read More

boko haram, kano, police matchmakers, Sharia

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