A statement from Kemi Adeosun, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development, on Sunday said the decision was to bring students in the schools to meet up for the period when their schools were shut
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The Muslim rights advocacy group was reacting to CAN’s latest statement in which it said Muslim female soldiers were free to wear hijab on military uniform if that would deflect bullets
As much as this sounds very petty, very insignificant and at best diversionary, the instigator, from all intent and purposes, is the government, led by AbdulRahman AbduRazaq, the governor. The question people ask is: what is the motive in this policy from AbdulRazaq as he deliberately pollutes the peace of a people who had worn their religious identities inside their souls, rather than on their lapels, for ages?
He said they should look for hijab-wearing schools their children can attend.
They urged the State Government to return to negotiating table with them.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that a welder was seen cutting the chains and locks of the gates of the noncompliant schools in Ilorin.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that all the schools remained under locked with presence of security men around
The reversal of government’s decision came just as one of the affected founders of the schools, the Cherubim and Seraphim (C&S) Church, ended a seven-day prayer session also on Monday.
The Nigerian Islamic human rights organization told the Kwara State Government to be assertive and to “possess your possession”
The Chairman and Spiritual Father of the church, Most Reverend Samuel Abidoye, made the church’s position known to newsmen in Ilorin on Sunday.
The Islamic rights organisation said this in a statement on Monday by its Director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola.
The approval, which was issued last Thursday, allows Muslim female students to wear hijab in grant-aided schools
This was contained in a statement released by the Secretary to the Kwara State Government, Mamman Jibril.
According to a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Ilorin on Monday, this is to avert any breakdown of law and order, while the government concludes the consultations with relevant stakeholders.
Rukayat Dindi, FCT Coordinator, Hijab Rights Advocacy Initiative and member of the coalition, made the call at a news conference to mark the 2021 Annual World Hijab Day, on Monday in Abuja.
This formed the basis of his judgement on June 4, 2020 in a case filed by Aishat Abdul-Aleem, an 11-year-old Muslim girl who was sent out of school at the Gateway Secondary School, Abeokuta in December 2018.
Alhaji AbdurRahman Balogun, the Chairman of the forum, made this known to newsmen on Friday during a protest held at the Bodija Housing Estate Mosque in Ibadan.
This is coming on the heels of a video clip showing the prevention of female Muslim students of the International School of the University of Ibadan from wearing their hijab into the school premises.
The Oyo State High Court in Ibadan struck out a fundamental human rights suit challenging the refusal of the University of Ibadan International School Ibadan to allow female Muslim students wear hijabs on their school uniform.
An Oyo State High Court in Ibadan on Tuesday fixed June 25 for hearing of preliminary objection in a fundamental human right suit filed by Muslim parents of female students of University of Ibadan International School Ibadan over the school’s refusal to allow their children wear Hijab on their uniform.