Around 1,000 people are killed in Pakistan by close relatives on the pretext of saving family honour every year, according to the country’s human rights body.
The National Human Rights Commission said it had attended to 610 of the 1,053 cases, while 443 remain pending.
They were ordered to collectively pay the accused N1 million as damages and N500,000 for breach of her fundamental human rights.
A 45-year-old man, Lukman Adekoya, was on Tuesday arraigned before the Ikeja Magistrates Court for impregnating a woman and abandoning her after she gave birth to a son.
Thulani Maseko, a pro-democracy activist, was shot dead in his home in Mbabane on Saturday.
The committee said one of the suspect confessed to committing the act with a seven-year-old child, and the second abused an almajiri child.
The appeal was brought before the court by a gubernatorial aspirant, Terhemba Shija, who accused the APC of failing to hold a valid election in the LGAs.
PDP was seeking his disqualification on the grounds that submission of his INEC Forms EC9 and EC13 did not follow INEC guidelines.
The NNPC counsels were protesting the refusal of Justice Inyang Ekwo to hear only their application for a stay of proceedings in the suit.
NAHCO says the strike has put some airlines in a difficult situation but promised that the action would be resolved speedily.
