The 10th Year Of Sultan Reign- Celebrating a RoyalWednesday, November 16, 2016
The Sultan of Sokoto and President of the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, His Eminence Muhammadu Sa rsquo;ad Abubakar III has just celebrated the 10th year anniversary of his ascendance to the revered 200-year-old throne of his ancestor, Usman Dan Fodio. Amidst prai ...
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Hijab Crisis In NYSC CampsFriday, November 27, 2015
(Lagos, 2015)The Benue State NYSC Camp Commandant, Captain Abalaba, evidently in a state of Islamophobic delirium, went on a public display of aggression against a serving female Muslim corps member on 13th November, 2015 simply because of her hijab. This grossly irresponsible and unprovok ... |
Boko Haram: From Despair to HopeSaturday, October 17, 2015
In an extraordinary address to the United Nations General Assembly on September 29th, 2015 during the quot;Leadership Summit on Countering ISIL and Violent Extremism quot;, Shaykh Abdallah Bin Bayyah, President of the prestigious Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies, Abu Dhabi, UAE carried ... |
Election of President-Elect Mohammadu Buhari Could Be a Turning PointWednesday, April 1, 2015
Say: O Allah Lord of Power (And Rule), Thou givest power to whom Thou pleasest, and Thou strippest off power from whom Thou pleasest: Thou enduest with honour whom Thou pleasest, and Thou bringest low whom Thou pleasest: In Thy hand is all good. Verily, over all things Thou hast power. Surah Al-Im ... |
2015 Elections: Disfiguring the Public Face of ReligionsSaturday, February 21, 2015
Numerous media reports have surfaced indicating that the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) got N7 billion to enlist pastors to endorse President Jonathan and campaign against the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress party, Alhaji Muhammadu Buhari, in the coming presidential e ... |
Radical Ignorance Is the Threat to PeaceThursday, November 27, 2014
Dr Patrick Dele Cole wrote a serialised piece in the Guardian newspaper of 19thof November 2014 under the title: Islam, radicalism and threat to peace . The relentless shrill and coarse broad-brush denunciations of Islam that filled the entire article only provided another proof that Islamophobia i ... |
Re: Don’t Inflame Passion With HijabFriday, November 7, 2014
I am writing to address at least one of the many misconceptions that Dr. Pius Oyeniran Abioje, the current acting head of Department of Religions at the University of Ilorin, Kwara State presented as facts in the Guardian newspaper of 31st of October, 2014 under the title Don t inflame passion w ... |
CAN and Cash For Arms: A Total DisgraceFriday, September 26, 2014
A nightmarish scene played out in far away South Africa a couple of weeks ago when, on September 5, 2014, a jet owned by Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), was caught in South Africa stashed with $9.3 million undeclared cash and invoices from two com ... |
Homosexuality Campaign: A New Form of Western ImperialismSunday, March 2, 2014
In a recent article in the UK s The Guardian newspaper (published on Tuesday 25 February 2014), Martin Plaut, the senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, branded President Yoweri Museveni an international pariah for recently signing a bill into law that imposes harsh penal ... |
The Lessons Of The World Hijab DayMonday, January 20, 2014
Thousands of people across the world who would either be non-Muslims or Muslims who ordinarily do not don the hijab will wear it on the 1st of February, 2014 in solidarity with the hijabis everywhere. This annual solidarity event tagged the World Hijab Day (WHD) seeks to create better u ... |
CINEMU Makes Its DebutWednesday, July 31, 2013
Anywhere you go in the world today it is quite easy to notice the sea of satellite dishes dominating the horizon. Much more so in so many predominantly Muslim countries around the world. There are more than 850 million Muslim youth in the world today, representing about 11% of the total global p ... |
CAN and the Alleged Islamisation of Osun StateWednesday, March 20, 2013
In its usual tactic of scare-mongering and spreading false alarms, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has raised the bar of its Islamophobia by directly accusing the Governor of the State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola of attempting to Islamise Osun State. Although a tired and alarmist li ... |
Hijab: Unveiling the Female MuslimsFriday, March 8, 2013
In the same week that Aisha Alabi, a young student of Kadara Junior Grammar School, and a number of students of St Paul's Grammar School, Ilobu, Osun State were mercilessly flogged and humiliated before the rest of the students for wearing hijab, another student of Mafoluku Senior Grammar School, Ba ... |
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