The Islamic police force in northern Nigeria’s main city has arrested 19 Muslims, accusing them of attending the wedding of a same-sex couple.
The force raided the marriage ceremony in Kano after a tip-off, its spokesman Lawal Ibrahim Fagge said.
A statement indicated that the couple, who had not yet taken their vows, managed to flee and police were searching for them.
Kano has a majority Muslim population, where an Islamic legal system operates alongside secular law.
Homosexual acts are illegal under both legal systems in the whole of Nigeria, where those living in the north are mainly Muslim and people in the south are largely Christian. END
