Nigeria is one of the most religious countries in the world where Islamic adherents outnumber believers of other faiths. According to a 2018 estimation by CIA World Factbook, the Muslim population in Nigeria is rated at 53.5%. Thus, it is Read more…
Tag: Hijab
Hijab Rights Advocacy Initiative, a Muslim Women based Non-Governmental Organisation that caters for the rights of Muslim women who choose to wear the Hijab in Nigeria has said Covenant University CBT Centre situated at Ota, Ogun State denies candidates wearing Read more…
A circular from the Federal Ministry of Education permits the wearing of the hijab in all Federal Government Unity Schools across the nation. The Federal Unity Schools also known as Federal Government Colleges were established among other things to promote Read more…
Because Miss Hamdallah Abdghaniyy Temitope wore her hijab on Monday in accordance with the Federal Republic of Nigeria’s constitution, she was expelled from the Gbenopo Community Grammar School in Ogun State. Hijab Rights Advocacy Initiative’s Executive Director Mutiat Orolu-Balogun said Read more…
The most recent development about Hijab in Lagos State is the principal of Eletu Odibo Junior High School in Yaba, Mrs. Christiana Sofuye, defying the Supreme Court’s ruling and the HOS directive on the hijab, according to the Hijab Rights Read more…
It is incomprehensibly absurd that Muslims be denied, degraded, and violated in a nation where they make up a large portion of the population, yet religious rights are freely provided in nations where Muslims are a minuscule minority in America, Read more…
The case challenging the International School Ibadan’s ban on female Muslim students wearing the hijab was put on hold on Tuesday due to Justice Moshood Ishola of the Oyo State High Court’s absence. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, Read more…
An incident involving a veiled Muslim woman named Adelani Zaynab and her husband, who were brutally assaulted by two police officers named Edet Egong and Ebierefa Julius on November 18, 2022, at their home in Muswab Abass Street, Adiyan Alagbado, Read more…
Mallam Engr. Abdulkabir Al’Yakeen Amir, who signed the statement on November 7, 2022 for the Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN), Oyo State Area Unit, said: “On the 28th of October, 2022, the leadership of the Muslim Students’ Society of Read more…
