The next destroyer after betting is Loan App.

This is not true. I tried to use for Facebook and Instagram ads and it didn't work. Then after their charges, I wanted to withdraw the cash, no value was given and the dollar had disappeared.

Then I contacted the customer care who never solved the problem

I saw the advert on Nairaland and eent on to download without knowing that there are lot of better apps than them

Fahdiga1:
The adverse effects of Buhari's maladministration

When will you stop thinking with your an s?

Dear All,

On the 17th of May, 2021 the owner of the number 08138003509 named Balogun Emmanuel called my elder Brother who is an automobile seller using political parties meeting to cajole him and sending codes to his phone and asking of the codes with which he used to hacked the whatapp and the Facebook accounts.

This has been reported to police and the service provider already. If anyone has has an idea of who he is and how best to track him down, kindly drop the info here.

He immediately started using the Facebook and the WhatsApp to send scam messages to people so as to defraud them.

Nairalanders, I count on you for the support to help on tips to expose and apprehend this scammer.

Racoon:
Read "WHO IS THIS ALLAH" By G.O.J. Mosheh and learn more.Islam spreads by deception or force of coercion.

Also try to read ALLAH IS THE CREATOR (A beautiful rejoinder) by Yusuf Mobera.

amazing101x:
I'm in my early 30s, I'm a christian, i'm single , never married and never had kid. I would have loved to marry in my early or late 20s but after several years of chasing true love when my heart was still tender, i've come to realize that love is selfish. Ladies i loved back then don't usually love me and now that i'm financially stable, every ladies seems to love me but i no longer have a tender heart, please don't get me wrong, i'm not wicked, i'm a nice person and i respect women alot but i no longer believe in true love or soul mate.

Now that i've come of age to pick a life partner and get married. To think of spending the rest of my life with one woman is very confusing. But recently i've been thinking of marrying more than one woman , maybe atleast 2. I've talked to some ladies about it, some of them showed remorse and some gladly accepted it. I'm considering marrying educated ladies who won't think of harming each other with charm but would see each other as friends so we can build a family together. Each time i think of marrying more than one wife, i feel more convinced about marriage than thinking of marrying just one.

Please i need your advise.

I knew many will advice you against this but please pray and go ahead. You hit your target with polygamy and many who discouraged you will jealous of you in the future if you do.

alBHAGDADI:
Joseph wasn't Jesus Biological father.

Why is Reno Omokri involving Islam in this? Doesn't he know they don't believe in Jesus? Some will say they do.

But do they believe he is the son of God who died on the cross and resurrected? No

He involved Islam because the reality on ground in the land point more to Islam than Christianity.

Ask the Jew if they believe in Jesus and see how they will mock you and the Jesus, then you will appreciate Islam belief.

That chanting can cause hypertension to the corruption agents (The opposition)

Freetech:
Another evidence why you need to consider Jesus Christ today. Tomorrow maybe too late

Look at you. Remember people use to die on their way to or from a church Programme.

PrettyCrystal:
A heavy traffic gridlock was experienced today after some Muslims blocked a Federal Road at Ejule, Kogi State for their Jumma prayers. Peter Agba Kalu, a journalist who was on duty, shared the photo and wrote; They blocked the Federal Road at Ejule, Kogi State for their Friday prayers. This is Sharia Nigeria not One Nigeria.

The road was eventually cleared after they concluded their prayers.

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2017/07/traffic-gridlock-kogi-muslims-block-federal-road-friday-prayers-photos.html

Look at you. This is common in all part of the country as well as across religion. Nonsense.

JackBizzle:


This is a super-religious person's idea of romance.


In reality, this is not romantic.


Imagine my father in-law telling me to memorize bible before I marry his daughter. Traditional marriage dey use bible?



Carry this crap to the islam section.

Bible is not memorizeable because you wont know the fashion to pick.

SpicyJosBabe:
When it comes to ebony glowing beauties, i think we are the capital in Nigeria

I am not seeing any difference from naked girls from our Southern part of the country and these. The beauty of the same core notherners ladies is because they are mostly covered with clothes.

winner01:
9. Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,
10. and they saw the God of Israel; and under His feet there appeared to be a pavement of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself


Two options:

1. The elders had some glimpse of the glory of God, though whatever they saw, it was something of which no image or picture could be made. Nothing is described but what was under his feet.
How do you see someone and the only description you have is the under of his feet.

Timothy was right: No one can see God and live, but one can see or behold the glory or the goodness of God.

Just like God told Moses later:
“I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the Lord, in your presence. . . . But . . . you cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live”.


2. They may also have seen a christophany (a pre-incarnate image of God). Jacob wrestled with such being, and it was said that he wrestled with God. We know its not possible to wrestle with God.

These are my opinions, others can give theirs.



Stephen, You wont see me on such threads cos the aim of such threads are mockery and nothing more. I'm in a lighter mood that why i have decided to oblige you. My sole intent on this section is being reflected in my threads. Thanks.

Controversial book!

On July 21, 20165:38 pmIn News by adekunleComments By Onozure Dania Lagos- The special five man panel of the Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos Thursday set aside the judgment of a Lagos High Court that banned students in public primary and secondary schools in Lagos State from wearing Hijab (Muslims headscarf) with their school uniforms in a unanimous decision. The special panel which was presided over by Justice A B Gumel held that the appeal is meritorious and same should be allowed. In his judgement, Justice Gumel held that the use of hijab is an Islamic injunction and also an Act of worship hence it will constitute a violation of the appellants’ rights to stop them from wearing hijab in public schools. While resolving all the five issues raised in favour of the appellants, the appellate court held that the lower court erred in law when it held that ban of hijab is a policy of the Lagos State Government (respondent). The court also noted that no circular was presented before the lower court to show that it was a policy of Lagos State stating that “he who asserts must prove”. The Judge further held that if there was a policy, such policy would have emanated from the state House of Assembly and not the executive arm of government. However, the court held that the fundamental human rights of female Muslim students as enshrined in section 38 (1) of the 1999 constitution was violated by the Respondent. The court dismissed the argument of Lagos State that it made exception by allowing female Muslim students to wear hijab during prayers. Other Justices in the five-man panel set are Justice M. Fasanmi, Justice A. Jauro, Justice J.S. Ikyegh and Justice I. Jombo Ofor. It would be recalled that Justice Modupe Onyeabor of an Ikeja High Court had on October 17, 2014, dismissed the suit instituted against the Lagos State Government by two 12-year-old girls Asiyat Kareem and Mariam Oyeniyi, who are students of Aturase Junior High School in Surelere under the aegis of the MSSN, Lagos State Area Unit. Dissatisfied with the judgment the appellants urged the appellate court to set aside the judgement and protect their constitutional rights. The government had banned the use of Hijab on the argument that it was not part of the approved school uniform for pupils. Following the ban, the students filed the suit on May 27, 2015, seeking redress and asked the court to declare the ban as a violation of their rights to freedom of thought, religion and education. In her judgment, Onyeabor held that the prohibition of the wearing of Hijab over school uniforms within and outside the premises of public schools was not discriminatory. According to her, the ban does not violate sections 38 and 42 of the 1999 Constitution as claimed by the plaintiffs. The judge said Section 10 of the Constitution made Nigeria a secular state and that government must maintain neutrality at all times. Onyeabor said the government therefore had a duty to preserve the secular nature of the institutions concerned as argued by the then Lagos State Solicitor-General, Mr Lawal Pedro (SAN). She noted that since the public schools were being funded by the government, it was therefore competent to issue dress codes and other guidelines to the students. According to her, the use of uniforms engenders uniformity and encourages students to pursue their mutual academic aspirations without recourse to religious or any other affiliations. The judge observed that the uniformity sought by the government in the issuance of the dress code would be destroyed, should the prayers of the plaintiffs be granted.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/07/appeal-court-lifts-ban-hijab-lagos-public-schools/

On July 21, 20165:38 pmIn News by adekunleComments By Onozure Dania Lagos- The special five man panel of the Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos Thursday set aside the judgment of a Lagos High Court that banned students in public primary and secondary schools in Lagos State from wearing Hijab (Muslims headscarf) with their school uniforms in a unanimous decision. The special panel which was presided over by Justice A B Gumel held that the appeal is meritorious and same should be allowed. In his judgement, Justice Gumel held that the use of hijab is an Islamic injunction and also an Act of worship hence it will constitute a violation of the appellants’ rights to stop them from wearing hijab in public schools. While resolving all the five issues raised in favour of the appellants, the appellate court held that the lower court erred in law when it held that ban of hijab is a policy of the Lagos State Government (respondent). The court also noted that no circular was presented before the lower court to show that it was a policy of Lagos State stating that “he who asserts must prove”. The Judge further held that if there was a policy, such policy would have emanated from the state House of Assembly and not the executive arm of government. However, the court held that the fundamental human rights of female Muslim students as enshrined in section 38 (1) of the 1999 constitution was violated by the Respondent. The court dismissed the argument of Lagos State that it made exception by allowing female Muslim students to wear hijab during prayers. Other Justices in the five-man panel set are Justice M. Fasanmi, Justice A. Jauro, Justice J.S. Ikyegh and Justice I. Jombo Ofor. It would be recalled that Justice Modupe Onyeabor of an Ikeja High Court had on October 17, 2014, dismissed the suit instituted against the Lagos State Government by two 12-year-old girls Asiyat Kareem and Mariam Oyeniyi, who are students of Aturase Junior High School in Surelere under the aegis of the MSSN, Lagos State Area Unit. Dissatisfied with the judgment the appellants urged the appellate court to set aside the judgement and protect their constitutional rights. The government had banned the use of Hijab on the argument that it was not part of the approved school uniform for pupils. Following the ban, the students filed the suit on May 27, 2015, seeking redress and asked the court to declare the ban as a violation of their rights to freedom of thought, religion and education. In her judgment, Onyeabor held that the prohibition of the wearing of Hijab over school uniforms within and outside the premises of public schools was not discriminatory. According to her, the ban does not violate sections 38 and 42 of the 1999 Constitution as claimed by the plaintiffs. The judge said Section 10 of the Constitution made Nigeria a secular state and that government must maintain neutrality at all times. Onyeabor said the government therefore had a duty to preserve the secular nature of the institutions concerned as argued by the then Lagos State Solicitor-General, Mr Lawal Pedro (SAN). She noted that since the public schools were being funded by the government, it was therefore competent to issue dress codes and other guidelines to the students. According to her, the use of uniforms engenders uniformity and encourages students to pursue their mutual academic aspirations without recourse to religious or any other affiliations. The judge observed that the uniformity sought by the government in the issuance of the dress code would be destroyed, should the prayers of the plaintiffs be granted.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/07/appeal-court-lifts-ban-hijab-lagos-public-schools/

http://punchng.com/uncle-raped-four-times-week-years/
A 14-year-old girl, Faith (pseudonym), from Delta State has said that when her uncle brought her to Lagos State three years ago, little did she know she would end up as his sex slave.

Faith said she was excited to follow her mother’s brother, Chigozie Bright, to Lagos in 2013 after she was assured of obtaining quality education in Lagos.

 The victim, whose mother lives in Mali, added that the 27-year-old uncle, had sex with her four times in a week between 2013 and 2016, saying the police saved her randy uncle.



The minor, who claimed her uncle always threatened her to keep the act secret, said she summoned courage and confided in one of her schoolmates.

The friend was said to have advised her to report the case to the police at the Isokoko division which led to Bright’s arrest.

The victim told the police that Bright had initially sent her to work for a woman as a housemaid but later took her to Aguda, Surulere, to live with him.

She said, “My uncle brought me from Delta State in 2013 to live with him in Lagos and promised to give me quality education. He is my mother’s brother. My mother lives in Mali.

“I was 11 years old when he started having sex with me. He initially took me to a woman. He had an issue with the woman and I started living with him. He had sex with me four times in a week.

“He warned me not to tell anyone. But when I could no longer bear it, I told one of my friends in school and she advised me to report him to the police.”

Bright, in his statement to the police, confessed to the crime.

He, however, said he slept with his niece once in a week.

He said, “I was the one who brought her to Lagos. When she arrived in Lagos in September 2013, she stayed with me for a week and I took her to a woman because I was advised not to leave her alone at home.

“She had a misunderstanding with the woman and the woman said she did not want her again. Since then, she had been staying with me and we had sex every Saturday. But I ensured I did not ‘release’ into her private parts.”

The suspect was subsequently brought before an Apapa Magistrates’ Court on one count of rape by a police prosecutor, Francisca Job.

The charge read, “That you, Chigozie Bright, on April 9, 2016, on Akinola Street, Aguda, Surulere, Lagos State, in the Apapa Magisterial District, did defile a 14-year-old girl by inserting your penis in her private parts, thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.”

The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge before the presiding magistrate, Mrs. A.O. Adegbite.

The magistrate adjourned the case till July 11, 2016 (today) for fact and sentence.

SeverusSnape:
All I see is the face of a serial rapist, A pedophilic fiend, and a covert jihadist.

Hmmm, Mr Seer, everyday we read the news of serial rapists, chronic Pedophiles and unrepentant prostitutes among your siblings and church leaders in the South and you didn't see that ooo. Nonsense

Tolexander:
Congrats bro!

The guy go be a religious bigot. See how he put girls with hijab for cabinet, none of his female friends no dey use hijab!

Just because of Hijab you call him a bigot, but you have actually displayed that. The hijab is still better than panties being displaying by your ladies.

Keep allowing your women to keep going naked as the are doing and stop saying what you don’t have an idea about. Liars!

truthman2012:

Girls not allowed to leave hostel without hijab and so were burnt in fire? This hijab wear is more than just a dress it is actually demonic.
My earlier point was: hijab wasn't an islamic wear as Arab women were wearing it before Muhammad's Islam. Even an Idolatress like Amina, Muhammad's mother, was wearing it before Muhammad was born. What is special about it for the muslims?
Like you stated, hijab is more important to a Muslim woman than her life as some girls were allowed to burn instead of escaping death without hijab on their head. What is on a muslim's woman head that is so sacred and has to be covered with hijab all the time? A man, I think it was basilico that said a lady agreed to sex and removed everything on her except the hijab and when asked to also remove the hijab she said it is "haram". You can see the level of islamic hypnotism and deception. What should be more important to her, the hijab or her private part? Islam and hypocrisy. May God deliver the Muslims from saranic deception called islam.

true2god:
You are asking too much, muslims have no idea.
Hijab is not a fashion per say, it is symbolic statements that says: I AM A SLAVE TO THE ARABS. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO ALLAHH AND PROMISE TO BE ALLAHH'S AND MOHAMMED'S SLAVE FOR LIFE.
In Egypt and pakistan, fathers kill their daughters for refusing to wear the hijab. In Iran, if a woman does no wear the hijab, any man that pour acid on the face of the woman will be protected by the law.
In saudi arabia, some girls were burnt to death in their hostel because they were not allowed, the male policemen, to leave their hostel without the hijab when their hostel was on fire.
That is islam for you.

Thinking with You, Niyi Akinnaso niyi.tlc@gmail.com

http://punchng.com/osun-hijab-crisis-statistics/

The word “crisis” in the above title is put within inverted commas, because there really was never a hijab crisis, truly so-called, in Osun schools; and there is none today. At least, that was the main claim in my article last Tuesday on this column, entitled, “The true story about hijab in Osun” (The PUNCH, June 28, 2016).

In the present article, I provide some statistical data to back up that claim, as requested by some of my readers. Some of the readers are residents of Osun State, who confirmed that they were often surprised each time they read about hijab crisis in their state. I offer the following statistics for them and for others interested in the truth.

There are 622,726 students in Osun public schools, distributed across 1,194 Elementary, 323 Middle, and 241 High schools. The number of Middle and High schools looks small because many of the schools were merged into larger mega schools, following the reclassification of schools. Hijab is worn by female Muslim students above the age of puberty in many of the Middle and High schools, regardless of whether they are Muslim or Christian schools, although many more students in the former wear hijab than in the latter.



The hijab is a veil, covering the head and chest. It is worn by some Muslim women beyond the age of puberty in the presence of adult males outside of their immediate family. It is, therefore, a symbol of modesty and privacy or cultural practice, rather than a compulsory religious garb for all Muslim women beyond the age of puberty. Nevertheless, like other forms of cultural practice, wearing hijab tends to be perpetuated by Muslim families whose female members engage in the practice. This explains why some Muslim families want their female offspring to wear hijab, while others, like Aregbesola’s family, do not bother.

Until a reporter instigated the principal of the Christ African Middle School, Osogbo, to allow her female Muslim students to wear hijab, in accordance with a court judgment, the so-called hijab crisis had occurred only in one single school throughout the entire state, namely, the Baptist High School, Iwo. Government officials and Muslim leaders quickly intervened in the Osogbo case, and that was the end of it.

But let’s look closely inside the Baptist High School, in order to understand the true nature of the controversy there. As indicated last week, BHS houses five merged secondary schools, namely, BHS, Baptist Grammar School, United Methodist, St. Mary’s, and St. Anthony’s. The last three of these schools came into the merger with hijab-wearing female Muslim students.

The initial resistance by the Baptist Mission to the merger spilled over to the resistance against hijab wearing. The problem was, however, resolved, after the intervention by the government and Iwo community leaders, and female Muslim students, continued to wear their hijab, until politicians got under the skin of some Christian leaders. This happened as preparations got underway for the 2014 governorship election, leading to the first concocted hijab crisis.

The incident occurred on Tuesday, February 4, 2014, and it involved 353 students out of a total student population of 2,123, over 50 per cent of whom are female. On that day, a total of 261 female Muslim students wore hijab, while a total of 92 Christian students (male and female) wore various robes, including choir outfits, revealing their religious affiliations. The BHS was the only school throughout the entire state, where such an incident occurred. Hijab wearing continued, without any hoopla, in the rest of the state, including the other secondary schools in Iwo town.

Yet, the press was ready to go to town with various stories and provocative headlines, such as “Osun schoolchildren in religious war”. Other headlines drew attention to “hijab crisis”, “uniform crisis”, or the like.

Nevertheless, Governor Rauf Aregbesola did not take things for granted. He quickly visited the school to douse the tension and also set up a panel to investigate the incident and make the appropriate recommendations. The panel concluded that the merger of various schools, which suddenly brought hijab wearing to the BHS provoked some resistance by the Baptist Mission, which was able to draw other Christian missions into the fray. This initial resistance made Christian leaders a soft target for political manipulation against Aregbesola and his school re-classification project. However, after the government’s intervention, the school allowed female Muslim students to continue to wear hijab as was the practice in other schools.

Before Aregbesola came on board, the subsisting regulation regarding hijab was contained in Article 8.2 (v) of a 2004 document, entitled, Guidelines on Administration and Discipline in Osun State Public Schools. It states that the use of hijab by female Muslim students shall be allowed in Muslim public schools with the proviso that it shall not be made compulsory, especially for non-Muslim students in such schools. Although the document recommended against the wearing of hijab in Christian schools, that recommendation was never enforced by any administration, because there were many Christian schools with a majority of Muslim population. That’s why hijab wearing by female Muslim students continued unabated in Muslim and Christian schools throughout the state.

It was the resistance to hijab wearing by the Baptist Mission, supported by some other Christian leaders, that led a Muslim students association to approach the court for arbitration in 2013. The court ruled in favour of hijab wearing in 2016, but suggested that the hijab should be in the approved colour of the school uniform in order to minimise its distinctiveness.

It was this court ruling that led to the second hijab controversy in the same BHS. By the time the second incident occurred on June 3, 2016, the school population at the BHS had increased to 2,500. Yet, only 41 female Muslim students wore hijab on that day, while only five Christian students wore church robes. Investigations revealed (1) that the students were instigated by some Church leaders, some even without the knowledge of the students’ parents and (2) that most, if not all, the Christian leaders behind the controversy have no children in the school.

The resistance by the Baptist Mission to Aregbesola’s school restructuring may not have been reasonable, (1) given the government’s take-over of the mission schools since 1975 and (2) given the Muslim majority in the school as in other Iwo schools, where Muslims account for over 70 per cent of the student population; it is nevertheless real for some parents and a fertile site for contestation for others.

It is most unfortunate that some religious leaders would use schoolchildren to achieve political or religious objectives by inciting them to rebellion, instead of encouraging them to learn tolerance in addition to knowledge and skills.

In writing this article, two events crossed my mind. One is the visit by Pope Francis last November to a mosque in Bangui, Central African Republic, besieged by Christian militias to deliver a message of reconciliation. After removing his shoes and bowing towards the holy Muslim city of Mecca, the pope told the people inside the mosque that “Christians and Muslims are brothers and sisters … Together, we must say no to hatred, to revenge and to violence, particularly that violence which is perpetrated in the name of a religion or of God himself”.

The second was a flashback to Temple University, Philadelphia, where I taught for over 20 years. I recalled the few female Muslim students in my classes over the years, some of whom wore the hijab in a university that started out from the Baptist Temple in 1884. Its founder, Russell Conwell, was a popular Baptist minister during his time. I hope it will not take the Baptist Mission in Nigeria over a century to understand that a child’s education should not be sacrifice

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REACTION TO THE GUARDIAN’S MISGUIDED ARTICLE STYLED “UNVEILING THE HIJAB”
The Muslim Congress (TMC) like other Islamic Organisations in Nigeria is disturbed by the orchestrated attempts by a section of the print and electronic media to subvert the historic court judgement on Hijab in the state of Osun through sponsored write-ups and misguided Newspaper editorials. These venomous editorials have been strategically rolled out in succession, a trend which suggests that there is a grand plan somewhere to stifle the rule of law and court judgment in the peaceful state of Osun. The elements behind this diabolic agenda are also trying to make the state ungovernable through their intolerant actions and inactions.
 
The most recent article designed to malign Islam and the Muslims was the publication in The Guardian Newspaper on July 21, 2016 purportedly written by one Ray Ekpu with the title ‘Unveiling the Hijab’. The title and its content confirmed our presumption that previous editorials in the Punch, the Nation newspapers and several online platforms were pre-planned and launched to misinform, gather support and elicit underserved sympathy for the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Osun state chapter. What Ray Ekpu and his cohorts have failed to tell the reading public is that CAN Osun chapter has taken the laws into its hands by instigating innocent Christian students to defy court ruling by wearing choir robes and other religious garments to schools in order to heat up the polity.  Are these instigators really religious leaders or spoilers? This dance of shame by the leadership of CAN in the State of Osun ought to have been condemned and criticized by Ray Ekpu and other writers. It is rather unfortunate that they attack the court ruling and Hijab despite the fact that the Muslims have sacrificed a lot for peace to reign for the past three years. Are these writers qualified to play the role of interpreting the laws and court pronouncements, a function reserved for the Supreme Court? We say boldly that this defiant behaviour is capable of compromising peace and progress in the state that is presently suffering the pang of economic downturn. The leadership of CAN and the foot soldiers in the media have clearly and shamelessly shown their pathological hatred for Islam, the Muslims and the Hijab.
 
Besides, it is regrettable that a respected body like CAN would descend so low to cause anarchy in reaction to a mere court injunction it considers unfavorable to it, rather than explore the civil approach of appeal at a higher court. This unfortunate resort to impunity becomes more harrowing when it is considered that innocent Christian students are being used as cannon fodders to pursue an unwholesome enterprise of prejudice, Islamophobia and sheer intolerance. This instigation of minors is not only an exploitation of the innocence of the latter, but also constitute a disregard for the law court and a denigration of the essence of the judiciary that is looked upon by every decent and sane person as the arbiter of disputes and the last safeguard against anarchy and disorderliness. Most disturbing is that these minors are being taught from their tender age how to place little or no premium on the institutions of the society, some of which they may come to occupy in the future, and that self-help is a ‘nobler’ path to seek redress. The Osun state chapter of CAN ought to have borrowed a leaf from the Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN) Lagos State Area Unit, which lost a similar case in a court ruling, but took to the legal instrument of appeal rather than resort to anarchy and dance of shame!
 
Moreover, it is worrisome that journalists who are supposed to be the conscience of the nation are being paid to attack court judgement by their religious constituency. In the article mentioned earlier, Ray Ekpu goofed professionally by making sweeping comments without having his facts right on the duration of the court case in the state of Osun. He stated arrogantly that “Recently the Osun State Moslem community filed a case against the state government urging it to allow Moslem female students to use the hijab in public schools. Justice Jide Falola of the Osun State High Court on June 3 this year gave a verdict that Moslem female students should be allowed to wear hijab in all public schools in the state because it is their fundamental human right. The Moslems gave the verdict a storm of applause.”  The fact of the matter is that, the Muslim community filed and endured a legal battle for three good years. Is three years of filing and waiting for a court judgement "recent"? For the avoidance of doubt, Ekpu should be educated that the Hijab case in the state was officially instituted by the Osun Muslim Community and the Muslim Students Society of Nigeria in February 2013. Why should a veteran journalist murder a fact to please his constituency and sponsors?
 
Pathetically, Ray Ekpu has also assumed the status of Islamic jurist and analyst. He wrote on Hijab citing Wikipedia that “the stipulations of the hijab were originally meant only for Prophet Muhammad’s wives and were intended to maintain their inviolability. This was because Muhammad conducted all religious and civic affairs in the mosque adjacent to his home …. that during the Prophet’s life time no other Moslem woman wore the hijab. Aslon says that Moslem women started to wear the hijab simply to emulate Muhammad’s wives who were revered as “Mothers of the Believers” in Islam”. This poorly researched write-up is nothing but garbage and trash!
 
To Islamophobic journalists, we advise that Wikipedia is not a reliable source for academic and intellectual discourse in Islam.  The three scholars mentioned by Ekpu are Orientalists. All write-ups by the orientalists including the one cited by Ray Ekpu are not inspired by the purest spirit of scholarly impartiality, and the sincere intention to educate and inform the public yearning to learn; rather such write-ups are dubiously put together with intention of belittling Islam and its adherents. Learned scholars have warned that “Articles in Wikipedia may be well written and insightful, but they are not embedded in the world of scholarly discourse. Without knowing who wrote the article, it is more difficult to judge whether the author's writing is worthy of consideration, or to critique his or her motivations or qualifications. Without a known author, Wikipedia articles cannot be considered authoritative” (Williams College Libraries, 2016).
 
For the avoidance of doubt, Ekpu and his cohorts should please note that the Hijab is unlike a choir robe worn occasionally in the Church by women and girls.  For the matured Muslim women, the dress code is not complete until the Hijab is worn. This is a divine commandment. The Qurán is the authentic source for understanding Islam. We state with pride that Islam has strongly emphasized the concept of decency and modesty for women through the use of Hijab. The verse of the Qur’an that enjoins the observance of Hijab are many, but the following two are relevant to the present discourse. Allah enjoins:
“And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what must ordinarily appear thereof; that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands’ fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers, or their brothers’ sons or their sisters’ sons, or their women or the servants whom their right hands possess, or male servants free of physical needs, or small children who have no sense of the shame of sex…(Quran 24:31).
 
“O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks close round them (when they go abroad). That will be better, so that they may be recognized and not molested. Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful.” (Quran 33:59)
 
These verses and several others provide theological foundation for the use of Hijab. Even liberal societies such US, Canada and Britain appreciate the seriousness of the Hijab dress code. In these countries, the public and private schools permit the use of Hijab. Whereas, the choir robes are not worn nor are they allowed because they obviously would conceal school uniforms. Apart from this, unlike the Qurán there is no known injunction in Bible compelling the wearing of a particular attire, otherwise, it would have been accommodated in western liberal societies. Therefore inventing a choir robe to counter the hijab at this point is an exercise in bad faith and a lack of consideration for tolerance, respect and peaceful coexistence.
The Congress avers that both EQUALITY and EQUITY are essential to keeping the peace among multi-religious groups in a complex society like Nigeria. For instance, that Nigeria maintains two embassies in Italy (one for state matters and the other for religion) is anchored on the principle of equity – the recognition and granting of the need (s) of each segment of the society without prejudice to the rights of others. It would therefore be untoward for Muslims to agitate for equality in that regard. We therefore frown at a decoy where ‘equality’ is invoked only as a means to prejudice the rights of others as CAN and its sponsored media consultants are currently advocating for Osun state.
 
More importantly, it is our belief that the world has gone global and cultures are intermingling on a daily basis. A look at some of the advanced countries that we emulate as a people shows how hijab-wearing females have provision for them in public institutions in recognition of the need for citizens to balance between civic obligations and religious injunctions and Nigeria cannot be an exception. It is worthy of note that anti-Hijab reactions staged by CAN and the paid journalists/writers in The Guardian, The Punch and The Nation newspapers are borne out of sheer intolerance, Islamophobia, selfishness, ignorance and lack of consideration for the religious rights of fellow men.
It is sheer propaganda to label the Governor of the state, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola as the harbinger of the confusion that is now raging in Osun state. With or without the Governor, those who see the denial of the hijab as a violation of their rights would still have gone to seek redress before the law. And when the law speaks, law abiding citizens ought to sheath their swords. Neither should the school re-classification policy of the state government be held in contempt as its aim is to accelerate the level of development of all public schools in the state. If ‘Opon Imo’ is novel, it came out of the same genuine concern as the re-classification policy.
 
In conclusion, The Congress counsels Islamophobic Nigerians and media organisations that Hijab stands for peace, unity, tranquillity, decency and compliance with the laws of Allah. These facts have been realised and accepted by the developed countries. We urge all stakeholders in the Nigerian project including CAN Osun chapter to see the Hijab as such too, and accommodate the Hijab and its wearers in government schools as important contributors to the Nigerian quest for greatness. For biased writers, we say “what you don’t have, you cannot give’’.
Long live Nigeria, Long live the Muslim Ummah, Long live the State of Osun!! 

SIGNED

Dr. Luqman AbdurRaheem MNIM, FAAE, FCEnt
Amir, The Muslim Congress

These verses and several others provide theological foundation for the use of Hijab. Even liberal societies such US, Canada and Britain appreciate the seriousness of the Hijab dress code. In these countries, the public and private schools permit the use of Hijab. Whereas, the choir robes are not worn nor are they allowed because they obviously would conceal school uniforms. Apart from this, unlike the Qurán there is no known injunction in Bible compelling the wearing of a particular attire, otherwise, it would have been accommodated in western liberal societies. Therefore inventing a choir robe to counter the hijab at this point is an exercise in bad faith and a lack of consideration for tolerance, respect and peaceful coexistence.
The Congress avers that both EQUALITY and EQUITY are essential to keeping the peace among multi-religious groups in a complex society like Nigeria. For instance, that Nigeria maintains two embassies in Italy (one for state matters and the other for religion) is anchored on the principle of equity – the recognition and granting of the need (s) of each segment of the society without prejudice to the rights of others. It would therefore be untoward for Muslims to agitate for equality in that regard. We therefore frown at a decoy where ‘equality’ is invoked only as a means to prejudice the rights of others as CAN and its sponsored media consultants are currently advocating for Osun state.
 
More importantly, it is our belief that the world has gone global and cultures are intermingling on a daily basis. A look at some of the advanced countries that we emulate as a people shows how hijab-wearing females have provision for them in public institutions in recognition of the need for citizens to balance between civic obligations and religious injunctions and Nigeria cannot be an exception. It is worthy of note that anti-Hijab reactions staged by CAN and the paid journalists/writers in The Guardian, The Punch and The Nation newspapers are borne out of sheer intolerance, Islamophobia, selfishness, ignorance and lack of consideration for the religious rights of fellow men.
It is sheer propaganda to label the Governor of the state, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola as the harbinger of the confusion that is now raging in Osun state. With or without the Governor, those who see the denial of the hijab as a violation of their rights would still have gone to seek redress before the law. And when the law speaks, law abiding citizens ought to sheath their swords. Neither should the school re-classification policy of the state government be held in contempt as its aim is to accelerate the level of development of all public schools in the state. If ‘Opon Imo’ is novel, it came out of the same genuine concern as the re-classification policy.
 
In conclusion, The Congress counsels Islamophobic Nigerians and media organisations that Hijab stands for peace, unity, tranquillity, decency and compliance with the laws of Allah. These facts have been realised and accepted by the developed countries. We urge all stakeholders in the Nigerian project including CAN Osun chapter to see the Hijab as such too, and accommodate the Hijab and its wearers in government schools as important contributors to the Nigerian quest for greatness. For biased writers, we say “what you don’t have, you cannot give’’.
Long live Nigeria, Long live the Muslim Ummah, Long live the State of Osun!! 

SIGNED

Dr. Luqman AbdurRaheem MNIM, FAAE, FCEnt
Amir, The Muslim Congress

Moreover, it is worrisome that journalists who are supposed to be the conscience of the nation are being paid to attack court judgement by their religious constituency. In the article mentioned earlier, Ray Ekpu goofed professionally by making sweeping comments without having his facts right on the duration of the court case in the state of Osun. He stated arrogantly that “Recently the Osun State Moslem community filed a case against the state government urging it to allow Moslem female students to use the hijab in public schools. Justice Jide Falola of the Osun State High Court on June 3 this year gave a verdict that Moslem female students should be allowed to wear hijab in all public schools in the state because it is their fundamental human right. The Moslems gave the verdict a storm of applause.”  The fact of the matter is that, the Muslim community filed and endured a legal battle for three good years. Is three years of filing and waiting for a court judgement "recent"? For the avoidance of doubt, Ekpu should be educated that the Hijab case in the state was officially instituted by the Osun Muslim Community and the Muslim Students Society of Nigeria in February 2013. Why should a veteran journalist murder a fact to please his constituency and sponsors?
 
Pathetically, Ray Ekpu has also assumed the status of Islamic jurist and analyst. He wrote on Hijab citing Wikipedia that “the stipulations of the hijab were originally meant only for Prophet Muhammad’s wives and were intended to maintain their inviolability. This was because Muhammad conducted all religious and civic affairs in the mosque adjacent to his home …. that during the Prophet’s life time no other Moslem woman wore the hijab. Aslon says that Moslem women started to wear the hijab simply to emulate Muhammad’s wives who were revered as “Mothers of the Believers” in Islam”. This poorly researched write-up is nothing but garbage and trash!
 
To Islamophobic journalists, we advise that Wikipedia is not a reliable source for academic and intellectual discourse in Islam.  The three scholars mentioned by Ekpu are Orientalists. All write-ups by the orientalists including the one cited by Ray Ekpu are not inspired by the purest spirit of scholarly impartiality, and the sincere intention to educate and inform the public yearning to learn; rather such write-ups are dubiously put together with intention of belittling Islam and its adherents. Learned scholars have warned that “Articles in Wikipedia may be well written and insightful, but they are not embedded in the world of scholarly discourse. Without knowing who wrote the article, it is more difficult to judge whether the author's writing is worthy of consideration, or to critique his or her motivations or qualifications. Without a known author, Wikipedia articles cannot be considered authoritative” (Williams College Libraries, 2016).
 
For the avoidance of doubt, Ekpu and his cohorts should please note that the Hijab is unlike a choir robe worn occasionally in the Church by women and girls.  For the matured Muslim women, the dress code is not complete until the Hijab is worn. This is a divine commandment. The Qurán is the authentic source for understanding Islam. We state with pride that Islam has strongly emphasized the concept of decency and modesty for women through the use of Hijab. The verse of the Qur’an that enjoins the observance of Hijab are many, but the following two are relevant to the present discourse. Allah enjoins:
“And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what must ordinarily appear thereof; that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands’ fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers, or their brothers’ sons or their sisters’ sons, or their women or the servants whom their right hands possess, or male servants free of physical needs, or small children who have no sense of the shame of sex…(Quran 24:31).
 
“O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks close round them (when they go abroad). That will be better, so that they may be recognized and not molested. Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful.” (Quran 33:59)

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21st June, 2016
 
REACTION TO THE GUARDIAN’S MISGUIDED ARTICLE STYLED “UNVEILING THE HIJAB”
The Muslim Congress (TMC) like other Islamic Organisations in Nigeria is disturbed by the orchestrated attempts by a section of the print and electronic media to subvert the historic court judgement on Hijab in the state of Osun through sponsored write-ups and misguided Newspaper editorials. These venomous editorials have been strategically rolled out in succession, a trend which suggests that there is a grand plan somewhere to stifle the rule of law and court judgment in the peaceful state of Osun. The elements behind this diabolic agenda are also trying to make the state ungovernable through their intolerant actions and inactions.
 
The most recent article designed to malign Islam and the Muslims was the publication in The Guardian Newspaper on July 21, 2016 purportedly written by one Ray Ekpu with the title ‘Unveiling the Hijab’. The title and its content confirmed our presumption that previous editorials in the Punch, the Nation newspapers and several online platforms were pre-planned and launched to misinform, gather support and elicit underserved sympathy for the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Osun state chapter. What Ray Ekpu and his cohorts have failed to tell the reading public is that CAN Osun chapter has taken the laws into its hands by instigating innocent Christian students to defy court ruling by wearing choir robes and other religious garments to schools in order to heat up the polity.  Are these instigators really religious leaders or spoilers? This dance of shame by the leadership of CAN in the State of Osun ought to have been condemned and criticized by Ray Ekpu and other writers. It is rather unfortunate that they attack the court ruling and Hijab despite the fact that the Muslims have sacrificed a lot for peace to reign for the past three years. Are these writers qualified to play the role of interpreting the laws and court pronouncements, a function reserved for the Supreme Court? We say boldly that this defiant behaviour is capable of compromising peace and progress in the state that is presently suffering the pang of economic downturn. The leadership of CAN and the foot soldiers in the media have clearly and shamelessly shown their pathological hatred for Islam, the Muslims and the Hijab.
 
Besides, it is regrettable that a respected body like CAN would descend so low to cause anarchy in reaction to a mere court injunction it considers unfavorable to it, rather than explore the civil approach of appeal at a higher court. This unfortunate resort to impunity becomes more harrowing when it is considered that innocent Christian students are being used as cannon fodders to pursue an unwholesome enterprise of prejudice, Islamophobia and sheer intolerance. This instigation of minors is not only an exploitation of the innocence of the latter, but also constitute a disregard for the law court and a denigration of the essence of the judiciary that is looked upon by every decent and sane person as the arbiter of disputes and the last safeguard against anarchy and disorderliness. Most disturbing is that these minors are being taught from their tender age how to place little or no premium on the institutions of the society, some of which they may come to occupy in the future, and that self-help is a ‘nobler’ path to seek redress. The Osun state chapter of CAN ought to have borrowed a leaf from the Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN) Lagos State Area Unit, which lost a similar case in a court ruling, but took to the legal instrument of appeal rather than resort to anarchy and dance of shame!

201320142015ob:
The tyrant can't boast of these

Dead integrity, the associates milked Nigerian economy dry.

Owliver:
these people will continue to give birth out of control and use oil money to feed them. nawao

Senseless comment!

iamauxin:
Jewish...... because they feel it's a rendezvous to give out blessings

English........to appear well-mannered and cultured

Russians.......to to make it appear that they won't launch missiles on you when you mess up.

Nigerians.....Yorubas... For lack of something to say
Hausas....just for stereotyping purposes.
Igbos.....to sell their goods

Here I just want to talk for the Hausa and the Muslims everywhere in the world. What Muslims say is "alhamdulilah " meaning Praise be to Allah. So muslim don't say bless you but alhamdulilah and it is the person that sneeze that will say that while those around will respond by praying for him or her.

Juliana50:




http://www.punchng.com/slept-400-men-five-months-22-year-old-trafficking-victim/

This is made in SS and SE part of the country. Small time, they will start shouting Jeeesus.

mrhansome12:
bla bla bla the largest concentration of Muslims especially non Igbo is in Ebonyi state so having Islamic university is not a big deal because igboland is a liberal society doesn't mean Islam will have a strong hold here. I am nwafu so I know what I am talking about.

Whatever you hear here is fact but you can keep denying. I won't argue with you if Igbo are liberal or not. That is a discussion not meant for me, but I just want you to know that the growth of Islam amongst the Igbo is fantastically impressive.

Anytime I hear Igbo saying no muslim among the Igbo, what I do is just to smile. When will you people stop denying the obvious. To buttress my point, there is an Islamic program on NTA Owerri every Friday.

Are you not tired of the worshipping the small idols that dominated the households in Igboland? Islam is coming to the rescue and you are still angry.

mrhansome12:
Not denying the fact but most of them are not in igboland and the feel who stays in igboland came back from Muslim areas but what are their percentage less than one

Please stop denying what you don't know. A piece I read from your fellow christian evangelist revealed how worried the Igbos are because of the reversion to Islam amongst the Igbo who have not travelled to the Muslim Lands before. I still have a video of Igbo sister who came to Islam but she has not even travelled out of Igboland before.

Now is another big surprise for you. The first ever Islamic University in Nigeria is coming to Ebonyi State soon and there is nothing any man-god worshipper can do about that.

Okudiover:


Let us put your theory to test by my asking you to produce an Igbo moslem to contest elections at any of the three tiers of government by 2019. E no go work.

Another error from you. Its going to be gradual as a LG in Enugu had produced Muslim in the past. And Oshimole of Edo may be the last Christian/Christian Edo will produce.

Adebo007:


Islam is an abomination, sin nd destruction in Igbo land nd can never be welcome there

Is ok, but try and investigate ooo. From Afkipo in Ebonyi, Nnsuka and Enugu in Enugu, Owerri in Imo to even Okija in Anambra, Islam has a large followers there and there is NOTHING anyone can do about it.

There are lots of things you people don't understand about Islam. Indonesia with the largest Muslim population in the world got converted in the hands of the Muslim traders not by war.

The Coptic Christians in Egypt are the fore parents of the Muslims of Egypt.

Just this month a Muslim was voted as a Mayor of London, please was this achieved by war?

So many children of the Christians of the advanced world have lost their faith in Christianity, not because muslims fight but the preaching and doctrine of Christianity no longer makes sense to them. Now Islam is growing among them.

In no distance time, the same is coming to apply to most part of Africa including the Igboland.