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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.
Bitcoin reached a record high above $90,000 on Wednesday, as the world’s largest cryptocurrency gained from President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to ease regulation on digital assets.
Bitcoin surged to a peak of $91,000 before settling at $90,670.
The volatile asset has soared since Trump’s US presidential election victory last week, repeatedly setting new records.
Trump had pledged during his campaign to make the United States the “Bitcoin and cryptocurrency capital of the world.”
His previous term included corporate tax cuts that boosted market liquidity, encouraging cryptocurrency investment.
In September, Trump announced he and his sons, along with entrepreneurs, would launch a digital currency platform called World Liberty Financial. However, its sales launch earlier this month was lacklustre, with only a fraction of tokens sold.
Cryptocurrencies have drawn global attention, marked by extreme volatility and the collapse of major industry players, including the FTX exchange.
In the lead-up to the election, Trump reportedly became the first former president to use Bitcoin in a transaction, buying burgers at a New York restaurant that hailed it as a “historic transaction.”
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The management of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, on Wednesday, announced the date for the online registration of prospective 2024 batch C stream I corps members.
The management said the exercise will commence on Thursday, 14 November, 2024.
This was made known in a post on the official X handle of the NYSC on Wednesday.
“Online Registration for 2024 Batch ‘C’ SC Stream I commences 14th November 2024,” the statement read.
The orientation course will commence later on a date to be announced by the NYSC management.
Few months after many Nigerian were deported, the Department for Combating Illegal Migration in Libya has deported seven Nigerians, three Bangladeshis, and three Ghanaians detained at the Qanfoudah Immigration Detention Centre.
The deportees were flown out of Libya via Benina International Airport in Benghazi.
in a statement on their X handle on Tuesday, confirmed that these individuals were deported for violating Libyan law.
The statement read, “DCIM deported 13 migrants (3 Bangladeshis, 3 Ghanaians, and 7 Nigerians) from the Qanfoudah Immigration Detention Centre via Benina International Airport in Benghazi. All individuals, ,,,were deported for violating laws in force in the Libyan state.”
At the time of filing this report, total number of deported Nigerians still sketchy.
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