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  • Muslim group holds awards

    The annual Muslim Clerics and Community Leaders awards of Morikaz Hudalahi Al-Isiammy will hold on April 28 at 10am. Venue is Eagles Estate, Orunkole Phase II/ Keneth Street, off Bello Street, Thuraya Bus-Stop, Obafemi/Owode Local Government Area, Ogun State.

    Host, who is also the leader of the group, Sheik Salmonu Abdul Rafiu Akorede said the award is to recognise members of the group for their contribution and support to community development.

    Notable among the awardees is Alfa Rafiu Alubarika who will be decorated as Balogun Adini of Morikaz and seven others.

  • Muslim group expresses love for education

    THE President of an Islamic organization, the Jama’at Ta’awunnil Muslimeen, Sheikh Daood Imran Molaasan has expressed the love of the organization for education. Speaking at ongoing 18th national conference of the association in Iwo Osun State, with the focus on knowledge acquisition as a catalyst for sustainable development, Molaasan explained that the organization considers justice, equity and education pursuit as social normative that fell within the ambit of the tenet of Islam and that the conference would dwell on them extensively.

    He said the organisation had demonstrated its love education by establishing 36 Islamic schools to bridge the illiteracy gap among Muslims in Osun State and other parts of the country that its 55 branches have spread to.

    He said the weeklong conference which would end on the 29th of December was designed to awaken Muslims to be alive to their responsibility as agents of positive change for the betterment of the society. Molaasan noted that the recent wrangling among some members of the organization had been resolved and commended the security agencies in the state for nipping the crisis in the bud.

  • Muslim group advises Fed Govt on job creation

    •Members rally in Lagos, donate to orphanage homes

    Muslim Association of Nigeria (MAN), Lagos State Branch, has urged the Federal Government to create more jobs for the unemployed.
    Its Vice Chairperson, Women Assalatu Group and 2016 Maolud Nabbiy Celebration Committee, Alhaja Kudirat Grilo-Adeniji, said this yesterday during the association’s rally in Lagos to celebrate the birth of Prophet Muhammad.
    She said: “Graduates with Masters and PhDs do not have jobs and many do not have food to eat. The Federal Government and other tiers must help and be of benefit to the young people.
    “Government can help by establishing industries that will accommodate many jobless people. Where there are jobs, robbery will be prevented and there will be peace.”
    She noted that during the yearly celebration, the association’s members visit the less-privileged homes among other places to give them essential provisions, food and clothes.
    Mrs. Grilo-Adeniji said, during such visits, the members counsel the less-privileged to make them happy in accordance with the teaching of Prophet Muhammad.
    She urged Muslims to imbibe the culture of praying to God always.
    Yesterday, the association visited Bab Sallam Motherless Babies Home, Ikeja and Modupe Cole Orphanage Home, Akoka, Yaba, Lagos, where bags of rice, beans, garri, packs of spaghetti, noodles, clothes and others were donated.
    The association’s 2016 Maolud Nabbiy Celebration Committee Chairman Alhaji Tajudeen Hassan said the rally and donations were aimed at creating awareness on what the association was doing as well as to celebrate the birth of Muhammad.
    He said the association gives scholarships to students, who have financial challenges.
    The Imam, Alhaji Mohammad Alayaki, in his message, said the day was designed to remind Muslims on the life of Prophet Mohammad.
    He urged Muslims to follow the exemplary life of the Prophet and abide by his teachings.

  • Muslim group laments ‘infiltration of Boko Haram’ to S’ West

    Muslim youths under the aegis of Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Organisation, Oyo State has lamented the infiltration of the violent Boko Haram sect into the South-Western part of the country.

    The Islamic group through its National President, Bro. Abdul Quadir Abdul Rafi said this in Ibadan at a briefing with journalist.

    The press briefing herald the commencement of activities marking the group’s 41st annual convention entitled: “The Challenge of Youth Restiveness in a Multi-Cultural and Multi-Religious Society.”

    While reacting to the discovery of the sect hideout in Lagos last week, the group said it would not support any form of violence from any part of the country against people who do not share the group’s religious belief.

    Abdul Rafi also displayed rare religious tolerance by condoling with the families of the founder of the World Soul winning Evangelical Mission, Prophet Timothy Obadare and the literary giant, Prof. Chinua Achebe.

    On the comment by the Sultan of Kano, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, asking the government to grant the sect amnesty, he said in as much as he would not want to say anything against the comments, the government should give amnesty to some members of the sect who deserve it and make others who carried out heinous crime face the course of justice.

    “We believe that the Sultan had his reason for saying so and being a father in faith. The government should find a way of looking into the suggestion. If there is a group that should be given amnesty, the government should do so and if there is anyone among them that committed heinous crime, they should be made to face the course of justice.

    “The loss of Prof. Chinua Achebe and Prophet Timothy Obadare is a loss to the generality of Nigerians as they have contributed tremendously to various facets of our national development,” he said.