Nigerians yesterday joined Muslims across the globe to celebrate the successful conclusion of 1442 A.H Ramadan. Reputable Islamic groups, in separate Eid Fitr messages.
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The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) has said the Eid-el Fitr festival will hold tomorrow (Thursday).
It asked Muslims in the country to observe Ramadan fast today (Wednesday).
The NSCIA, which made the clarifications in a statement in Abuja, said the crescent has not been sighted to end Ramadan fast.
The statement was signed by the Deputy Secretary-General, of NSCIA, Prof. Salisu Shehu.
The NSCIA said: “The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) – under the leadership of its President-General and Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Alh. Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, CFR, mni – wishes to inform the Nigerian Muslim Ummah that there was no proven report of the sighting of the crescent of Shawwal, 1442 AH on the 29th of Ramadan, 1442 AH.
The youths who scaled through the screening exercise out of 200 applicants are participating in the first batch of the hands-on-training which has entered its third week.
The free training is a collaborative effort of the Education, Youth and Empowerment Committees whose secretaries are, Dr Rahmat Adisa and Alhaji Saka, and the Mission Board of the society.
The Chief Missioner of NASFAT, Imam Abdul-Azeez Onike, who disclosed this explained that the organisation is committed to ensuring that the youth have access to empowerment opportunities.
He said, “NASFAT as a society is poised to achieve the mission of ensuring that our youths and others have access to economic empowerment opportunities, having achieved relative success in the area of widows’ empowerment as hundreds of widows in NASFAT, especially at the headquarters, have been financially empowered”.
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A foremost Islamic organisation in Nigeria, Nasru-Lahi-l-Fatih Society (NASFAT), yesterday deplored the kidnapping of hundreds of pupils of Government Science Secondary School (GSSS), Kankara, Katsina State.
NASFAT, in a statement, described the abduction as against the tenets of Islam.
Quoting from the Koran, NASFAT Chief Missioner, Imam Abdul-Azeez Onike, said: “Islam abhors aggression in whatever form and forbids banishing people from their homes unjustly. Such acts have punishments prescribed for them under Islamic laws.
“Allah Almighty says, ‘After this it is ye, the same people, who slay among yourselves, and banish a party of you from their homes; assist (their enemies) against them, in guilt and rancour.’”