Islamic human rights organisation, Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), on Thursday, warned the Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, to drop her lawsuit and petition challenging the planned mass weddings of 100 girls in Niger State. The mass weddings, being sponsored by the Speaker of the Niger State House of Assembly, Abdulmalik Sarkindaji, are scheduled for 24 May. …

The Kano State Agency for the Control of Aids has commenced a pre-marital health screening of an additional 147 prospective couples. In a statement on Tuesday, the agency’s Information Officer, Usman Datti, the Director-General of the agency, Dr. Usman Bashir, had during an inspection of the screening, explained that the exercise was aimed at “providing medical evaluations and consultations, if …

The Kano State Police Command on Monday announced the arrest of  30 hoodlums for attempting to disrupt the state-sponsored mass wedding conducted on Friday for indigent residents. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Kano State government had organised a wedding Fatiha for about 3,600 young girls and boys, widows and divorcees on Friday. The Commissioner of Police in the state, …

The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) and former Kano State governor, Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, has advised about 3,000 beneficiaries of a mass wedding scheme in the State against checking their spouses’ phones in order to avoid anything that could lead to the break-up of their marriages. Kwankwaso gave the advice while making a remark during …

The Kano State Hisbah Board will, on Friday (today), commence the medical screening of 1,800 prospective couples selected for the first batch of mass wedding programme by the state government. The Public Relations Officer of the board, Lawan Fagge, who disclosed this in an interview with The PUNCH on Thursday, said the 1,800 were among the over 4,000 persons who …

Kano Hisbah (Sharia police), on Wednesday, confirmed that it has procured a set of furniture, food items, as well as clothing materials for N1,800 intending couples under its mass wedding scheme. Commander-General of Kano State Hisbah Board, Sheikh Aminu Daurawa, who made the disclosure, while inspecting procured items for the mass wedding, said the state government has earmarked the sum …