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A Shari’a court sitting at Rigasa, Kaduna, on Thursday, dissolved a one-year-old marriage over husband’s inability to provide for his wife. The Judge, Salisu Abubakar-Tureta, granted the prayer of Mariya Zhulyadaini for divorce from Jamilu Hassan. Zhulyadaini, in her petition, prayed the court for divorce because her husband did not provide her with three square […]
Author: Jumai Ahmadu, Ph.d, Helpline Foundation for the Needy, Abuja
Reviewer: Salisu Sani Majema
‘Abuja is a city in Nigeria like no other. That it was founded on the need for a place that would represent to us a symbol of our oneness and national unity and indeed, a home to all Nigerians’.
‘A city like Abuja that is founded on a clear set of ideals and being built in compliance with a vision and a Master Plan’.
The above testimony is contained in a Forward by the current FCT Minister, Mallam Muhammad Musa Bello, to the book, ‘ABUJA: The Evolution and Development of a Federal Capital City’ published by Dr. Jumai Ahmadu, Ph.d..
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Mon Mar 08 2021
An Abuja-based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Helpline Foundation for the Needy, has called for a more practical approach to reducing extreme poverty among women.
As Nigeria joins the rest of the world to celebrate this year’s International Women’s Day, Helpline, in collaboration with Make a Difference for The Needy Foundation and the Association of Wives of Traditional Rulers in the FCT, said it was time to move away from the yearly talk shows to empowerment of rural women at a time when countries were battling to recover from the economic difficulties occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic.