For 10 months, TOPE OMOGBOLAGUN traced the families of young girls who were abducted, converted to Islam and married without parental consent It has been over a year since the disappearance of 15-year-old Aisha Mani, a Christian, from the Gidan Dandada area of Katsina State. Before her abduction, Aisha, who …
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Bride in court over N90,000 Aso-Ebi wedding debt
A housewife, Kehinde Anifowose, has appeared before an Ikole Customary Court over a debt of N90,400 she incurred during her wedding. A trader, Dele Omotoyinbo, dragged the bride to court, claiming that she supplied Aso-Ebi fabrics valued N90,400 to the defendant during her wedding in Sept 2015 but failed to pay. …
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