Women's Rights rally condemened in northern Nigeria

Islamic authorities from the northern Nigerian city of Kano have blocked a protest organized bya women's rights group for divorced women. The group has agreed to reschedule their rally for January 29. Many women's rights activists complain that divorced women are often left homeless and without custody of their children, and as a result, these women often slip into poverty. The head of the Sharia police called the planned protest an "embarrassment", and reffered to it as "un-Islamic".The northern Nigerian city of Kano is one of twelve northern Muslim-majority states governed by Sharia law. The Hisbah are in charge of maintaining the morals of the Islamic religion and making sure they are "Sharia-compliant" One of the Hisbah's main duties is to reconcile spouses that are divorce-prone, but divorce is very common in the polygamous northern Nigeria.
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This article reveals the tensions between womem's rights groups and the Muslim-majority states governed by Sharia law. It also reveals the limitted rights of women and women's rights groups in Nigeria. It also shows how a their religiously dominated government affects their society.

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