A Benue barber reportedly arrested in Kano for blasphemy for a customer’s haircuts that allegedly ‘insult Islam’

A young barber from Benue State identified as Elijah Ode has been reportedly arrested in Kano for blasphemy.  According to a Benue activist, Smith Akoko, the young man, who is also a student, was arrested last Wednesday, after two of his customers were caught with hairstyles deemed blasphemous to the Islamic religion. His cousin, Sunday Ukenya, who confirmed…

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