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Iyabo Ojo is getting joined by more friend from Nigeria for the second part of her daughter’s wedding ceremony; The actress has been in Tanzania for over a week now, following Priscy's Muslim ...
Legit.ng takes a look at popular Nigerian celebrities who have bravely switched religions for love; There is a popular axiom that says love knows no bounds, ... 2025, in a Muslim wedding. ...
The Jama'atu Nastril Islam, JNI, led by the Sultan of Sokoto, Mohammed Sa'ad Abubakar III, has expressed angst over the high rate of abductions, killings, ethnic violence and resurgence of Boko Haram ...
A Nigerian rights group has launched a petition to stop plans by religious leaders and a state lawmaker to push 100 girls and young women into marriage in a mass ceremony next week, which have ...
The Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), led by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has expressed deep concern ...
A plan to marry off 100 Nigerian girls and young women in a state-sponsored mass wedding has sparked heated debate about child marriage and female education, with last-ditch efforts under way to ...
The number of people killed after a mob stormed a bus carrying Muslim wedding guests in central Nigeria's volatile Plateau ...
In August, police in Nigeria’s Delta State raided a hotel where they said a gay wedding was taking place, arresting hundreds of people and detaining 67 after initial investigations.
Nigeria’s Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act, which was signed into law by former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2014, makes same-sex relationships punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
So, 16 years after their first wedding, the Rochester couple wedded again, this time in Lagos, Nigeria. It was not an anniversary celebration or a renewal of vows but a completion of what they had ...
Islamic sharia police in the northern Nigerian city of Kano have arrested 19 young people for organising a gay wedding, a spokesperson said on Tuesday. Kano is among around a dozen predominantly ...