The House Committee on Muslim Affairs has approved, subject to style, a substitute bill that seeks to establish Muslim cemeteries in cities and municipalities with a significant Muslim population.
The House plenary (PPAB)
This took place Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 24, during a hearing of
MANILA - A House of Representatives panel on Tuesday approved a measure providing Muslim Filipinos better access to Shari'a courts in their absence. The House Committee on Muslim Affairs, chaired by Lanao del Norte Representative Mohamad Khalid Dimaporo, approved House Bill 5045 which would amend Republic Act 9997, or the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF) Act of 2009. Dimaporo, author of the bill, said the measure is intended to give the NCMF the mandate to help Muslim Filipinos outside of Mindanao in getting access to Shari'a courts. "Access to Shari'a courts has been a recurring plight of many Muslim Filipinos," Dimaporo said. "This legislative measure thus seeks to rectify this present predicament by allowing and empowering the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos to act as a service provider for and on behalf of Muslim Filipinos to file and receive routine documents to the Shari'a Courts." Dimaporo noted that recent migrations, in
A Kano Chief Magistrate Court, Gyadi- Gyadi division on Wednesday ordered the remand of three Sharia Court Judges, and 12 other judicial workers at the Correctional Centre over alleged theft of about N500 million. The 15 accused persons are standing trial before Chief Magistrate Mustapha Sa’ad Datti on four-count charge include criminal conspiracy, joint Act, […]
Two State Shari’a Court judges, a cashier and 16 other financial registrars were on Thursday remanded in prison by a Kano State Chief Magistrates’ Court over alleged N580.2 million theft. The police had charged suspects with five counts of criminal conspiracy, joint act, criminal breach of trust by a public servant, theft and forgery. The suspects include Bashir Kurawa, Saadatu Umar, Tijjani Abdullahi, Maryam Jibrin-Garba, Shamsu Sani and Hussaina Imam, Sani Ali Muhammad, Sani Buba-Aliyu and Bashir Baffa.
A Kano Chief Magistrates’ Court has ordered that two State Shari’a Court judges, 16 other financial registrars and a cashier be remanded in a correction