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Court sentences Man to life imprisonment for defiling his Wife
By Kayode Sanni-Arewa
A court in Pakistan’s conservative Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has sentenced a man(namewithheld) to life imprisonment for raping and kidnapping his underage wife, the victim’s lawyer said on Monday.
“This is the first decision of its kind in the province,” the lawyer, Mian Safeer, said
The decision was announced by a court that deals with cases of gender-based violence in the north-western region of the country
The lawyer added that the court’s decision was an important step towards strengthening women’s rights in the country.
The victim was still living in her parents’ house, as the marriage ceremony had only been performed spiritually at the time of the offence, but not as a civil ceremony
According to the lawyer, the man had kidnapped the underage young girl and kept her in his house for several days after the abduction and raped her.
The lawyer said the man was sentenced to life imprisonment for both rape and abduction and was additionally fined.
Violence against women is a recurring problem in Pakistan.
It is a society often characterised by patriarchal norms and has a population of more than 240 million.
Marital rape has been an official criminal offence in the South Asian country since 2021.
The first conviction of marital rape was reported in January when a court sentenced a man to three years in prison.
An underage marriage often arranged by guardians and rooted in long-standing cultural and societal traditions, is common in Pakistan.
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Obasanjo narrates how he escaped becoming drug addict
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has revealed how he almost became a drug addict.
He spoke in Abeokuta over the weekend at the second edition of ‘Fly Above The High’ anti-drug campaign conference organised by the Recovery Advocacy Network.
Obasanjo stated that smoking during his youthful age led to chronic coughing and almost became an addiction.
The former President, while lamenting the increase in drug abuse among Nigerians and other West Africans, urged Nigerian students and young people to refrain from abusing psychoactive drugs, saying that they ruin life rather than enhance it.
“If I had persisted, I could have become addicted. Once you get involved, it is difficult to get out.
“There’s nothing drug can do for you except destruction.
“We found out that West Africa has equally been a centre for drug consumption in a very bad way. That was more than 10 years ago, so the situation has since gone worse. And whatever applies to West Africa applies to all other parts of Africa,” Obasanjo said.
He cautioned against stigmatization and urged individuals who are already addicted to psychoactive drugs to get help.
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Wale Edun, minister of finance and coordinating minister of the economy, says Nigeria has saved $20 billion from petrol subsidy removal and market-based pricing of the foreign exchange rate.
Edun spoke at a ceremony recently held to mark the first 100 days in office of Esther Walso-Jack, head of civil service of the federation, in Abuja.
“An amount of five per cent of GDP is what those two subsidies were costing when there was a subsidy on PMS; when there was petroleum product generally for a long time and when there was a subsidy of foreign exchange. Between them, they were costing five percent of GDP,” he said.
“If you say GDP was on average, let’s say $400 billion. We all know what five percent of that is – $20 billion of funds that could be going into infrastructure, health, social services, education.”
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