Tanzania Court Ban Marrying Girls Under 18 Years

     A Tanzanian court has upheld a law banning the marriage of girls under the age of 18 in a ruling praised by rights activists.

   The High Court in 2016 ruled that laws allowing girls as young as 15 to be married with the permission of their parents, or even 14 with the permission of a court, were unconstitutional and discriminatory. However the state had appealed the ruling. “We reject this appeal as it has no foundation,” the appeals court judges wrote in their ruling on Wednesday.

Governor Obaseki replaces Adams Oshiomhole’s local government chairman in Edo State

   

  Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has sworn-in Imonofi Osumah Inusa as the Chairman of Etsako West Local Government, after Yakubu Musa, the erstwhile chairman was removed.  Musa was removed over his alleged involvement in N46 million fraud in the council.

Bangladesh sentences 16 to death for killing teenager in harassment case

 

  The principal of a religious school in Bangladesh was among 16 people sentenced to death on Thursday for the murder of a teenage girl who refused to withdraw a complaint of sexual harassment against him, the public prosecutor said.

Zamfara girl who set self ablaze over boyfriend's inability to pay dowry dies

  A 17-year-old girl, Aisha Bello of Gusau town, Zamfara State who set herself ablaze for not getting married to her suitor in September has finally died. She died on Wednesday evening at the Federal Medical Center, Gusau where she was being treated for burns.

#S*x-for-grades: Those involved will be prosecuted –President Buhari

 

    President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, said any university staff found culpable in the sex-for-grades scandal would  be prosecuted and if found guilty serve the stiffest punishment under the law.

   Buhari, who warned that his administration would  not harbour any form of indiscipline and misdemeanor, said he had directed appropriate government agencies to take decisive and firm action against any staff reported to have sexually  harassed students in  any of the nation’s educational institutions.