Browsing: Sultan of Sokoto

In a letter addressed to the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, dated March 6, 2014 and signed by NSCIA’s Secretary General, Ishaq Oloyede, the body headed by the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar, “felicitated on behalf of the entire Muslim community in Nigeria, with our Christian brothers and sisters on the commencement of the Lenten period”

A statement issued in Sokoto by Prof. Sambo Wali, the Chairman of the Sokoto Sultanate Advisory Committee on Religious Affairs, said this followed the sighting of the crescent from across the country on Saturday

The attacks on the College of Agriculture, Gujba, Yobe State, which resulted in the death of scores of innocent students and injury of many others were sadistic, anachronistic and unIslamic. There is no justification for such murder in any religion, especially Islam, the religion of peace for which it is the fastest growing faith in America and Europe

In a congratulatory letter to the Sultan on the occasion of his 57th birthday on Saturday, President Jonathan prayed that God Almighty will grant the monarch, who is also the President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, many more years of worthy service to the nation

Among the eminent Nigerians that visited the governor in his office on Monday were the representatives of the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Abubakar Sa’ad; Senators Oluremi Tinubu; Gbenga Obadara; former Governors of Kwara State, Senator Bukola Saraki and Alhaji Shaaba Lafiaji; the wife of the Osun State Governor, Alhaja Serifat Aregbesola; and immediate past President of the Nigeria Guild of Editors and Managing Director, Vanguard newspapers, Gbenga Adefaye