Tag: Islamic cleric

Katsina: “Defend yourselves against bandits” – Cleric tells communities 

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A Katsina-based cleric, Sheikh Musa Ibrahim Faskari, has advised communities ravaged by banditry to take up arms and defend themselves. In a Friday sermon that went viral on social media, the Islamic scholar said Islam encouraged people who were being attacked and killed to take arms and defend themselves. According to him, communities were allowed to take up arms in order to defend five things: religion, lives, wealth, dignity and family. He further said, “We have seen how our towns and villages are full with security agents; but we are…

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Murdered Islamic Cleric: NSCIA calls for calm among Muslims

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The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, (NSCIA), has called for calm across Muslim communities in Yobe State and beyond, over the recent murder of an Islamic Cleric, Sheikh Goni Aisami Gashua. Recall that Sheikh Aisami was murdered last Friday by two suspected soldiers, Lance-Corporals John Gabriel and Adamu Gideon, of the 241 Recce Battalion, Nguru, Yobe State. According to reports, the Sheikh was on his way to Gashua from Nguru, when he offered to give a ride to a soldier he met at the military check-point to Jaji-Maji, situated…

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Criticising Buhari: Mosque finally sacks suspended Sheikh Khalid

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…As cleric gets new appointment, says “I paid for identifying with voiceless Nigerians” The National Assembly Mosque Zone-E, Apo Legislators’ Quarters, Gudu District, Abuja has terminated the appointment of its Chief Imam, Sheikh Nuru Khalid. Recall that Sheikh Nuru Khalid had on Friday last week, during a sermon in Abuja, criticised the government over its failure to tame the escalating insecurity and killings in the country. No sooner had he made the scathing assessment of the present administration than the mosque committee suspended him for anti-government preaching. Following this, the…

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“Suspension can’t shut my mouth from speaking the truth” – Sheikh Khalid

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The Chief Imam of Apo Legislative Quarters Mosque, Abuja, Shiekh Nuru Khalid, has broken his silence on his suspension. Recall that the renowned cleric was suspended by the mosque committee after he delivered a sermon on insecurity on Friday. In the sermon, the Sheikh flayed the Buhari administration over its failure to tame the escalating insecurity and killings in the country, and hinted at some measures that the electorate should devise should the authorities fail to protect lives. Defending the action, the Chairman of the committee, Senator Sa’idu Muhammed Dansadau,…

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Islamic cleric, Imam Nura Khalid, suspended for criticising Buhari over Kaduna train bombing

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The Chief Imam of Apo Juma’at Mosque in Abuja, Sheikh Nuru Khalid, has been suspended by the mosque’s steering committee for criticising President Muhammadu Buhari over the recent Kaduna train bombing. The Chief Imam, in his Friday sermon, had criticized the president for failure to visit Kaduna over last Monday night’s daring terrorist attack on an Abuja-Kaduna train, saying condemnation wasn’t enough. He argued that the president was in Kaduna for a campaign but refused to visit the state after the bomb attack. The Sheikh said it was odd that…

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Apo legislative mosque suspends its Chief Imam, Sheikh Nuru Khalid for criticising FG

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The Apo Legislative Quarters Juma’at mosque in Abuja has suspended its Chief Imam, Sheikh Nura Khalid, for criticising the government over the deteriorating security situation in Nigeria in his Friday sermon. The renowned cleric, during his sermon, criticised the Buhari administration for failing to address the security crisis and the high number of killings in Nigeria. In the sermon, Sheikh Khalid outlined the steps the masses should take if the government allows them to continue being killed, by refusing to go to the polls. According to him, “The position of…

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Buhari mourns, as renowned Islamic scholar, Dr. Ahmad BUK dies

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President Muhammadu Buhari has mourned the passing of Muslim Scholar and Imam, Bayero University, Kano (BUK), Dr. Ahmad Muhammad Ibrahim. The Islamic Scholar died after a brief protracted illness yesterday, at the Malam Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, in Kano. His son, Ahmad Muhammad Ahmad, who announced the passage of his father on his verified Facebook page on Friday, said the funeral prayer for the deceased would hold at Darul Hadith Mosque, Tudun-Yola, in Kano metropolis. Late Dr. Ahmad was a lecturer at the Department of Arabic in BUK before he…

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Kano: Cleric resigns committee appointment to protest sale of mosque’s land

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A Kano-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Tijjani Bala Kalarawi has resigned his appointment as member committee of trustees of Abdullahi Bayero Juma’at Mosque, Fagge, to protest the sales of praying ground by the Kano State Government. Kalarawi disclosed this on Monday, on a local radio programme in Kano. The cleric, who described the act as a sheer disregard for the sanctity of God’s worshipping domain, said that it became pertinent for him to resign his membership of the trustee committee because of the indiscriminate buildings and land allocation within the mosque…

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Insecurity: “Buhari met Nigeria as one, but allows bandits to rule some parts” — Sheikh Khalid

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The Chief Imam of Apo Legislative Quarters mosque, Sheikh Nuru Khalid, has lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari for his failure to tackle banditry in the country.  Addressing worshippers during his Friday sermon, the Imam said President Buhari met a united Nigeria but allowed bandits to rule part of the country. “Go and tell the president that under his government some group of people are issuing threats to local communities, demanding that they be paid some amounts of money or face attack”, Khalid said. “And they would gather the money and announce…

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“Evictions, break-off agitations satanic” – Sheikh Jingir

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The National Chairman Council of Ulama, Jama’atu Izalatil Bid’ah Wa’Ikamatis Sunnah (JIBWIS), Sheikh Sani Yahaya Jingir, has said that any attempt at evicting Nigerians from any section or any agitation for its break-off, is satanic. Sheikh Jingir stated this while briefing newsmen at his residence in Jos. He opined that in a country of about two hundred million, only few of not more than five hundred thousand are bad, and are either power-seekers at all cost or are sponsored by Nigeria’s enemies to cause harm in the country. He urged leaders at…

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