Qudah stressed that Sharia courts are the sole authorities authorised to document divorces or rule on marital separations. He said that not every inquiry about divorce leads to its finalisation, as ...

Makinde stated this at the 2025 Iftar programme organised by the Oyo State government, the sixth since he became governor of the state in 2019, held at the ...

House advances bill for Ecclesiastical Courts, sparking debate on religious law and constitutional amendments.

Qudah stressed that Sharia courts are the sole authorities authorised to document divorces or rule on marital separations. He said that not every inquiry about divorce leads to its finalisation ...

Oyo State governor, Mr Seyi Makinde, has made clarification on the application of Sharia law in the state, insisting that his ...

no state in the Southern region of Nigeria has allowed the establishment of a Shariah Court of Appeal, unlike some Northern states with significant Christian populations. Former Federal ...

Last year, judicial commissioner Haldar Abdul Aziz ruled that the civil courts had no power to hear the woman’s case as it fell under the jurisdiction of the shariah court. He said the woman’s ...

A woman was sentenced to five days in jail and fined RM2,000 by the shariah subordinate court in Setiu, Terengganu, for selling food to Muslims who were not fasting during Ramadan last week.

The Federal government has decided to withdraw the appeals filed by State Bank and National Bank of Pakistan in the Supreme Court against a verdict of Federal Shariat Court regarding interest free ...

Makinde also stated that he had no intention of going to court to test the constitutionality of the Sharia court’s operation in Oyo State. According to a statement on Thursday by his media aide ...