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Ese Oruru: ‘I don’t know how I got to Kano. I just followed Yinusa’

In an exclusive interview with Sun News Online, in a private home in Abuja, Ese Oruru, the 14-year-old teenager abducted from Bayelsa State and taken to Kano said it was only after she got to Kano and saw that the people and the environment were strange that she realised she was no longer at home. Excerpts from her Interview after the cut... How did you meet Yinusa? Ese: We sell food in Bayelsa; so they, Yellow and his other people, used to come and buy food from us. What does Yinusa do in Bayelsa? Ese: He came to Bayelsa to look for money. People say Inuwa is your b

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Kano preacher to die by hanging for ‘blaspheming’ Prophet Mohammed

A preacher ,Abdulaziz Dauda, popularly known as Inyass, was on Tuesday,sentenced to death by hanging after he was convicted of blaspheming Prophet Mohammed.  The trial was conducted in camera at the Kano higher sharia court . Inyass was arrested on August 18, 2015 in Abuja and brought to Kano to face trial on a two-count charge of blasphemy and inciting crisis. Hundreds of Muslim youths had burnt the sharia court located at Rijiyar Lemo area of Kano in protest against the “blasphemous comments” allegedy made by Inyass, a leader of the Tijjaniyya sect. He reportedly commit

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Kano to wed 2, 000 widows, divorcées

The Kano State Hisba board yesterday said it had commenced preparations for the mass wedding of another batch of 2,000 widows and divorcees in the state. The director-general of the board, Dr Abba Sufi, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano. Sufi said the preparations followed recent directive by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje to the board to start arrangement for the wedding of another batch of 2,000 couples. (more…)

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