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9 Feb 2021 Police arrested a barber in Nigeria’s majority-Muslim Kano state for allegedly cutting his clients’ hair in styles deemed offensive to the Islamic faith, Nigeria’s Punch newspaper reported Monday. Local senator Abba Moro demanded the barber’s release from police detention on Sunday, explaining that he was arrested on January 15 and again on January 27 “by a group of Muslims over claims that the hairstyle he designed on two of his customers was insulting to Islam and the Holy [Islamic] Prophet Mohammed.” The barber, named Elijah Ode, is “currently being tried in Gya...

He was arrested by the Kano State Hisbah Corps. Elijah, was picked up after two of his customers were seen with hairstyles deemed blasphemous to the Islamic religion He was arraigned in court on Tuesday, February 2, and later remanded. He had taken to Twitter late last month to reveal details of his arrest. His tweets read; “My name is Elijah, I’m a barber based in kano. I was being arrested by Matro Area command police authority bank road kano on 15th January 2021. “Reasons for the arrest goes thus : According to the police officers that showed up in my shop that day in response to ...

  My name is Elijah, I'm a barber based in kano. I was being arrested by Matro Area command police authority bank road kano on 15th January 2021. "Reasons for the arrest goes thus: According to the police officers that showed up in my shop that day, in response to the allegation made against me by some members of the Islamic group in Kano, they said that they received a report that I gave two of my clients a haircut style with a design of an image which was said to have some similarities with something in Islamic religious group.  "However, they eventually arrested me, took some of my barbi...