It added that views contained in a recent press statement purportedly authored on behalf of the Muslim Community of Oyo State did not represent the position of the Muslim Ummah in the state.
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This is contained in a statement by Professor Sambo Junaidu, Chairman, Advisory Committee on Religious Affairs, Sultanate Council, Sokoto on Sunday.
The council said though industrial actions are lawful means of seeking rights from the government, the current strike in Kaduna State is unfortunate, inauspicious and capable of compounding the already precarious situations prevailing in the state, and the country in general.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the president made his feelings known in a Sallah message issued by his spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Wednesday.
The Sultan gave the order in a statement issued by the NSCIA Deputy Secretary-General, Prof. Salisu Shehu.
Aregbesola, who made this known at the 2021 National Stakeholders’ Conference on the Administration of Statutory Marriage, on Friday, in Abuja, said this had become imperative due to the prevailing challenges associated with marriages in the country.
In a statement signed by its acting Director of Administration, Haruna Zuberu Usman-Ugwu, the NSCIA accused CAN of harbouring morbid hatred for Islam and Muslims, and has a predilection for heating up the polity anytime a Muslim is at the helm of affairs in the country.
Both bodies, which spoke through their spokesmen on Wednesday, said it was not enough for the Secret Police to raise the alarm, but to go after perpetrators of crimes, as not all those who committed atrocities in the past have been brought to justice.
The Executive Secretary of the agency, Dr. Faisal Shuaib, made the assertion at a national sensitisation programme on COVID-19 vaccines for Muslim scholars and Imams in Nigeria in Wednesday in Abuja.
The group stated this in a communique signed by the chapter’s President, Alhaji Yaqubu Sanni, after a stakeholders meeting.
The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs has urged Muslim faithful in the country to look out for the new Islamic moon of Shawwal from Friday.
The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs has ordered the suspension of annual Tafsir sessions and congregational Tarawih prayers during the upcoming Ramadan in various mosques to contain the spread of the Coronavirus Disease.
The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs has advised all Islamic worship centres across the country to take precautionary measures against the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19).
In a statement issued in Abuja by the Head of Media of the council, Ibrahim Aselemi, the body appealed to the youths not to allow their emotions becloud their judgment to ensure peace at all times.
Osinbajo gave this commendation on Friday while declaring open a three-day General Assembly/National Executive Meeting meeting of NSCIA at the Central Mosque, Abuja.
The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs has said the Christian Association of Nigeria has turned itself into a political party with its recent conduct.
The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs has commended the Lagos state Government for approving the use of Hijab in public schools in the state.
The President of CAN, Rev. Samson Ayokunle, commiserated with them in a statement signed by Pastor Adebayo Oladeji, the Special Assistant, Media and Communications to the CAN president on Tuesday in Abuja.
The Sultan made this known in a statement issued to the press and signed by the Deputy Secretary-General, Prof.Salisu Shehu, who lamented that it is pitiable that the Jos was once known as “a haven of peace and a pride of the nation” has become a place of “bloodbath”, anomie and violence.
He made the call at Public Lecture and Special Jumma’at Prayer to mark Nigeria’s 58th Independence Day Celebration at the National Mosque in Abuja.