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The year 2020 being the year of the full blown shift in lifestyle dimensions resulting from the coronavirus also registered a complete alteration in almost all known human forms of interactions; education, work, business and everything. Whereas in the years leading up to these covid19 years, the facts remain that we already had our lives gradually slipping off our control. With modern gadgets, smart electronic devices, reality TV etc., and of course the lockdown, social distancing and other advanced/protective living conditions, a sedentary lifestyle now commonly trends among not just the high and mighty or the professional career people but the average low income earners too. With the internet, social media, work-from-home conditions, virtual learning and video conferencing/meetings our typical everyday patterns of living now commonly involves little or no physical activity. We are almost all now living a sedentary lifestyle because we now often remain on a spo...

  DIVORCE (TALAAQ) AND THE RIGHTS OF DIVORCED WOMEN UNDER ISLAMIC LAW BY Hon. Amina Salihu Ingawa * 1.Introduction D ivorce in Islam though legally allowed, is the permissible thing most detested by Allah (The Most High). Despite its distaste in Islam, divorce is allowed because it may be the only solution to some marital problems. It is also conceivable because Islam, being a religion of peace that strives to make life easier and not difficult for Muslims, would not insist that a man and a woman remain together in perpetual bondage or hardship in order to sustain a marriage. Therefore, divorce is provided for to the extent that a whole chapter of the Quran is named after it. Several other verses of the Quran also address the issue of divorce exclusively. In that regard a lot of regulations have been stipulated in order to govern the manner in which divorce should be handled. Sadly, a lot of times divorce occurs without recourse to these laid down procedures; and this disre...