An Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan, yesterday sentenced one Idris Rasheed, 23, to 12 years imprisonment for raping a ...

Asked about the purdali (screen or curtain) concealing his women, a Maharaja who forbade mention of his name said: “The purdah is a mark of gentility. A purdah woman would be discarded at once ...

She refused to be in purdah - a practice followed by Muslim, and some Hindu women, of wearing clothes that conceal them and ...

An Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan, yesterday sentenced one Idris Rasheed, 23, to 12 years imprisonment for molesting a woman in purdah.

In Islamic cultures, purdah, which literally means "curtain," is a practice that involves the seclusion of women from public ...

She refused to be in purdah - a practice followed by Muslim, and some Hindu women, of wearing clothes that conceal them and secluding themselves from men - and became heir to the throne at the age ...