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  • Husband gets five strokes of cane for divorcing wife

    A Sharia Court sitting at Magajin Gari in Kaduna on Monday ordered that one Idris Sai’du be given five strokes of cane for violation of the Islamic Law on divorce.

    The judge, Mallam Dahiru Lawal also ordered the man to pay N5,000 to Hauwa Abdullah, his wife for abandoning her and wasting her time for so long.

    The judge, who was irked at the respondent’s pronouncement of “I divorce my wife three times,” said it was not in line with Islamic practice.

    He therefore ordered the respondent to be given five strokes of cane.

    The complainant, Hauwa, had earlier told the court that her husband chased her out of her matrimonial home since last year and had never checked on her ever since.

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    “He asked me to leave his house since last year Ramadan, saying I should pack all my belongings and leave. It is almost a year now and he had never checked on me,” the complainant said.

    Hauwa, who stated that they were not blessed with a child, added that she was in court to seek for divorce as she couldn’t be married to a man that didn’t care for her.

    “I want this honourable court to compel my husband to divorce me as he is no longer interested in me,’’ she said.

    In his response to the allegations, Sai’du said he ordered Hauwa to return home because “she has been communicating with her ex-husband which I am not comfortable with.

    “I therefore divorce my wife three times.”

    NAN

  • Kaduna: Court jails man one month for breaking traffic rule

    Kaduna: Court jails man one month for breaking traffic rule

    A Sharia Court in Kaduna on Wednesday sentenced 34-year-old Godwin Abu to one month in prison for wrong parking of vehicle and driving without license.

    Abu, who resides at Unguwan Gimbiya, Sabo Area, was convicted after he pleaded guilty to the charge bordering on breaking road traffic rule.

    The convict pleaded for leniency.

    The Judge, Mallam Saad, however, gave the convict an option of N2,000 fine and warned him to always obey traffic rules.

    Earlier, the Prosecutor, Ibrahim Yunusa, had told the court that the police on patrol arrested Abu on Feb. 20 along Sabon-Gari Road where he parked a vehicle wrongly.

    “When the policemen stopped the driver for disobeying traffic rules, they asked for his driver’s licence which he couldn’t produce,’’ he said.

    Yunusa said the offence contravened Section 10 (1) of the Road Traffic Act.

    NAN

  • Fraud: Sharia Court remands Marabout in prison

    The Kaduna Sharia Court II, Magajin Gari on Friday revoked the bail granted a Marabout, Hambali Ahmad, 66 in a case of criminal breach of trust, conspiracy and cheating.

    Ahmad and Nafiu Iliyasu, 33, were in court for misappropriating N1.56 million worth of telephone recharge cards belonging to one Ahmed Abdullahi of Ibrahim Taiwo road in Tudun Wada, Kaduna.

    When the case was mentioned on December 10, Ahmad had agreed to have collected N300, 000 cash and another N380, 000 worth of recharge card from Iliyasu, the principal suspect.

    The Marabout, who hailed from Duba village in Batsari Local Government, Katsina State, however changed his plea on Friday, claiming that the amount was payment for his professional services.

    Ahmad claimed that he colected N680, 000 as payment for the “spiritual work’’ done for Iliyasu to enable him get married in 2008.

    The prosecutor, Cpl. Bitrus Kwaji however faulted the claim, reminding the court that the offence was committed in 2012.

    He noted that the court had fixed this Friday for judgment and urged it to discountenance the submission of the accused person.

    The judge, Malam Ibrahim Inuwa revoked bail granted to Ahmad on December 10 “in view of the fact that you have now changed your plea.”

    The judge set a new bail condition for the Marabout, who was ordered to produce a surety residing in Kaduna with verifiable fixed asset.

    The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Inuwa adjourned the case to January, 17, 2013.