Adedeji Doherty is a chairmanship aspirant for the Lagos State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, and organising Secretary for the South-West.

THE kidnap of the wife of Deputy Leader, Ebonyi State House of Assembly, Mrs. Winifred Ogbu last Friday evening along Gracecourt Hotel, Abakaliki, by a six-member gang which operated with motorcycles had led to the enactment of a new policy on kidnapping by the Ebonyi State government. The policy states that any building where kidnapped victims are kept with the knowledge of the owner, the structure will be demolished; and that if the owner of a building finds out that his residence was being used to keep kidnap victims and fails to report it to security agents, the building will also be demolished.

At every emergent need of Muslims, there is invariably something to offer as far as Islamic Movement for Africa, IMA, is concerned. The current of such is the need for Muslims especially in the immediate vicinity to have a quality based hospital that would render to them effective and affordable medical and health service delivery.

Sahuur is early morning meal taken by a fasting Muslim before fajr. And Iftar is meal taken to break the fast at sunset. Both the Sahuur and Iftar must be in conformity with the rule guiding table manner in Islam in order to achieve the full reward.

Asaba—DELTA State, which is one of the coastal states in the country might be totally submerged by water, if the current global projections that the sea level is expected to rise to 15 centimeter in year 2099 is anything to go by.

It is clear that some women have the permission to leave out fasting during Ramadan due to issues such as pregnancy, menstrual cycles, and breast feeding. In providing an insight into the matter, the permission on pregnant and nursing women is slightly different from that of the terminally sick persons or the aged.

Former judge of International Court of Justice (ICJ) and founder Islamic Mission for Africa (IMA) HE Judge Bola Ajibola has appealed to the government and the citizenry to see the new month of Ramadan 1434 A.H as a period of sober reflection to shun evil vices in the society.

LAGOS — The Yaba Magistrate’s Court, Thursday, sentenced a man to two hours of community service after he pleaded guilty to stealing.

Muslim parents have been urged to imbibe the culture of decent dressing in their children right from childhood to guide against immorality in the society.

By ‘Those Verdicts,’ I mean the verdicts that have at different times caused public umbrage and outrage thus giving the impression that a Judge’s verdict (or the Jurors’ as the case may be) was at variance with what the public thought would be the case. By coincidence, the verdict in a Florida Court came almost at the same time with the Court of Appeal’s acquittal of Al Mustapha, General Abacha’s ex Chief Security Officer who was incarcerated for several years for allegedly masterminding the execution in public of late Kudirat Abiola by Police Officers.