AAGM: Amina Lawal: Women Affairs Adviser Urges Government to Intervene.

(From This Day (Nigeria): AAGM)

Byline: Toba Suleiman

As Nigeria prepares to host the 2002 edition of the Miss World Beauty pageant in November, fear is being expressed that the country would lose financially if the Federal Government failed to the implementation of the Sharia Appeal Court decision upholding the sentencing the 30-year-old mother of a baby girl, Amina Lawal, to death by stoning in Katsina State.

Addressing a gathering of women in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, Special Adviser to the President on Women Affairs, Chief (Mrs) Titilayo Ajanaku, said "already a number of participating countries had expressed resentment over the Islamic …