Northwest Airlines bombing suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old son of a wealthy Nigerian banker, became so politically extreme his own father reported him to U.S. authorities. http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/abdulmuttallab-bankers-son-turned-muslim-radical/story?id=9426890
Nigeria has been periodically racked with Jihadist violence and the stated goal of Jihadist terrorists there is the imposition of Shariah law. Now, it appears that one of the chief proponents of Shariah in Nigeria, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, the former governor of the Nigerian state of Sokoto, has been accused of stealing a large sum […]
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has said that Islamic and non- interest banks must adhere to effective risk management if they must operate in the country as alternative financial institutions. The Governor, who acknowledged that the non-interest financial industry is beginning to take root in Nigeria said the […]
Linked below is an article from Nigeria, a west African nation racked by violence associated with Jihadists attempting to impose Shariah. While their violent efforts to impose Shariah have been unsuccessful and have been met with equal violence, the Jihadists have been more successful in using Shariah-Compliant Finance as a Trojan horse. In the particular […]
Over the past few months, the government of Nigeria has battled Jihadist insurgents of the Darul Islam sect who sought to impose Shariah in the areas on western Nigeria in which they operated. Even though the government has successfully battled Darul Islam, other Islamist elements in Nigeria are allowing a Trojan Horse to enter Nigeria’s […]
Shariah-Compliant Finance has been described as a Trojan Horse for for broader Shariah infiltration around the world. This is certainly true of Africa, where Shariah is on the march through armed Jihad in Somalia and parts of Nigeria. The just as dangerous, but harder to detect dawah method of Shariah-Compliant Finance, on the other hand, […]
In northern Nigeria there are “Shariah Police” tasked with making sure that everyone and everything is “Shariah-Compliant.” These are their words, not ours. This is the same doctrine that the Jihadists are attempting to infiltrate into our society and culture through our financial back door–using the same terminology (Shariah-Compliant). The report from the BBC: Shariah […]
Removing Obstacles to Shariah Implementation Daily Trust (Abuja) OPINION 16 October 2008 Posted to the web 17 October 2008 By Sani Adamu The Islamic legal system, Shariah, was reintroduced in the country when former Governor Ahmed Yarima adopted it in Zamfara State in 1999. Subsequently, 10 other states in the North embraced the system in […]
By Inter Press Service Friday, October 17, 2008 Listen to the Article Amina Koki Gizo Inter Press Service KANO: “I don’t sell cocaine,” says the video vendor in Kano’s Rimi market when I ask for Adam Zango’s music video CD Bahaushiya. He is not referring to the white powder, but […]
Homosexuals must die – Muslim cleric By Paul Omo Obadan Sunday, October 5, 2008 Furious over what seems a bourgeoning community of homosexuals in Nigeria, a Muslim cleric, Professor Is-haq Akintola, has suggested capital punishment for the practice, with recourse to the Holy Qu’ran, which he says prescribes death penalty. “Homosexuality is a […]
Fighting Shariah, One woman at a time! Hauwa Yahaya-Sani, after attending a sensitisation workshop on the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women contends that domestic rape, pegging marriageable age at 17, religion and socio-cultural practices are the major impediments to its full domestication […]
Man with 86 wives:Fatwa pronounced on him unconstitutional — Lawyers Written by ISE OLUWA IGE Sunday, 21 September 2008 Ask AGF Andoakaa, Niger governor toe speak up FEW days ago, the highest Islamic body in Northern Nigeria, Jama’tu Nasril Islam (JNI) pronounced a Fatwa on one of its own, Alhaji Bello Abubakar Masaba, […]
Man with 86 wives appeals death sentence Written by Ise-Oluwa Ige Friday, 19 September 2008 Alhaji Bello Masaba, the man who says he has 86 wives, has invoked the original jurisdiction of the Federal high court sitting in Abuja seeking its order nullifying the death sentence (Fatwa) passed on him by the highest Islamic […]
Mon 15 Sep 2008, 23:27 GMT nigeriaworld.com/…/muslim-women-300.jpg ABUJA, Sept 15 (Reuters Life!) – A Nigerian Muslim court on Monday detained an 84-yeaR old Islamic preacher with 86 wives after he failed to heed a call by local leaders to divorce all but four of them. The authorities in central Niger state charged Mohammed Bello […]
‘It is high time we reviewed our marriage laws in Nigeria’ updated: Monday 25-08-2008 Samaranda OlarindeSamaranda Olarinde is Romanian by birth but Nigerian by marriage. The legal authority on family law speaks with Bukola Olajide on the concept of marriage, divorce and related issues under the Nigerian Family Law. Excerpts: Going by the provision of […]
Eighteen men have been remanded in prison following their arrest for alleged sodomy in northern Nigeria, the state-owned news agency, Nan, reports.The men were arrested in a hotel in north-eastern Bauchi State, which is governed by the Islamic Sharia law. The Sharia punishment for sodomy is death by stoning. The men, reportedly wearing women’s clothes, […]
Islamic authorities in the Nigerian city of Bauchi have reportedly launched a crackdown on sex workers identified by the Red Cross in a census. The BBC’s Shehu Saulawa in Bauchi says that the local Sharia commission has begun rounding the women up. But a commissioner said no arrests had been made and authorities were merely […]
Nigerian Man With 86 Wives Sentenced to Death by Sharia Court Unless he Drops 82 of Them in 3 Days…… Nigeria’s Islamic authority has told the man who has 86 wives to choose only four and repent within three days or else he will be sentenced to death. The Jamatu Nasril Islam (JNI) […]
NIGERIA: Underground sex in the conservative north Photo: Obi Anyadike/IRIN Idris the pimp KANO, 15 August 2008 (PlusNews) – Idris is a pimp and makes no bones about it. Because of the way the sex industry works in Nigeria’s northern city of Kano, he and the women he pimps have a co-dependant relationship – they […]
Capital Punishment Deter Crime? By Lawrence Amaku www.sheikyermani.com Some armed robbers executed by firing squadCapital punishment, otherwise known as death penalty, is the execution of a person by the state as punishment for a crime. In this vein, crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The […]
Nigeria gasoline drivers strike over fuel prices 11 Jul 2008 13:28:05 GMT <!– 11 Jul 2008 13:28:05 GMT ## for search indexer, do not remove –> Source: Reuters By Randy Fabi http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L1131014.htm ABUJA, July 11 (Reuters) – Nigeria’s gasoline tanker drivers went on an indefinite nationwide strike on Friday in protest over high […]
July 1, 2008 http://www.netnewspublisher.com/nigerian-sharia-court-jails-female-singer-for-staging-musical-concert/ A lower Shari’ah court in Shira local government area of Bauchi State in northern Nigeria, on Tuesday sentenced a 34-year-old female singer, Talatu Mai-Gurmi, to two months imprisonment or pay a fine of N5,000 (about US $45) for staging a traditional musical concert. The convicted woman was arrested by […]
http://tinyurl.com/44fwej NIGERIA: RESCUE OF GIRLS IGNITES ISLAMIC RAMPAGE Six churches gutted after recovery of Christians teenagers from Muslim kidnappers. (Compass Direct News) – Islamists under the auspices of a paramilitary force last week destroyed six churches to protest a police rescue of two teenage Christian girls kidnapped by Muslims in this Bauchi state town. Joseph […]
NIGERIA: ‘BLASPHEMY’ ISSUE SURFACES IN LEGAL TENSIONS Upheld death penalty for Islamist, constitutional revision feed volatile debate. http://www.compassdirect.org/en/display.php?page=news&lang=en&length=long&idelement=5352 (Compass Direct News) – Musa Yaro lifted his sonorous voice and read out a passage from Risalla, an Islamic publication, and then handed down his judgment: “Whoever insults our prophet, Muhammad, must die. You, Abdullahi Umaru, […]
BBC NEWS Oil firms in Nigeria cut output Industrial action and attacks from militants have forced the two biggest oil companies in Nigeria to cut their production. Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell are both reducing output, which is helping to keep oil prices near record highs. Militant groups in the Niger Delta have […]
FCT – Row Over Ban On Alcohol Sale http://allafrica.com/stories/200803030334.html Daily Trust (Abuja) NEWS 2 March 2008 Posted to the web 3 March 2008 By Musa Simon Reef The authorities of the Federal Capital Territory recently announced a ban on sale of alcohol in all parks of the capital city. The directive, announced by the […]
Nigeria A dressing down Oct 11th 2007 | ABUJA From The Economist print edition www.economist.com The perils of wearing supposedly indecent clothes IT DOESN’T always pay to dress up for a party in Nigeria: it may earn you a hefty fine or even a stint in jail. In the northern city of Bauchi, capital of […]
The Social and Economic Implications of Sharia Law by Sam A. Aluko Professor of Economics Contribution to the Seminar Organised by the Chapel of Annunciation, Archbishop Vining College of Theology, Akure, Ondo State, on Sunday, 28th November, 1999 Introduction 1. The Governor of Zamfara State, Alhaji Ahmed Sani Yerima, proclaimed […]
Sharia Nigeria Ready To Stone 6, Hack Up 46 “Criminals” February 15th, 2008 Posted By The Bashman. LAGOS – Six people convicted by Islamic sharia courts in a northern Nigerian state are awaiting death by stoning, while 46 others are waiting for amputation, the official News Agency of Nigeria reported on Friday. The men on […]
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