Babies in the rubble: Inside Lagos’ growing child abandonment crisis
ON a rainy Tuesday morning in Ikeja, sanitation workers made a grim discovery. Tucked inside a carton by a roadside drain was a newborn, still with the umbilical cord attached and wrapped in a thin cloth.
Lagos@50: TMC warns against celebrating idols
The Muslim Congress (TMC) has commended the Lagos State government on its achievements as it celebrates its golden jubilee. At its special Ramadan lecture on Lagos at 50, TMC appraised Lagos performance in the last five decades.
…brothers, sisters … our country does not take your burdens lightly – Osinbajo
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, today in Maiduguri unveiled a new and more effective distribution plan for delivering relief materials to Internally Displaced Persons in the North-East which departs from the undignified practice of forcing people to queue up for food.
Shun usury, haram business, Sheikh Adelakun urges Muslims
REVERED scholar, Sheikh Daud Adelakun, has said that Muslims are under obligation to shun haram business transaction, quoting from the Quran 2 verse 275 that though Allah allowed trading and business transaction but forbids usury.
Avoid being wasteful
RAMADAN should be a time to avoid being wasteful. Some Muslims are unable to distinguish between their needs and luxuries, hence they engage in wasteful spending. Some, at the end of each fasting day, pile-up varieties of food that they cannot consume thereby spending more on what they do not need. If you have more, remember the have-nots. The act of giving is ibadah, and no act of ibadah can be said to be too much.
The fun in Ramadan
The non-Muslims could not possibly imagine the joy that Muslims feel in Ramadan. The wealthy and the poor, the environment and economy including all strata of the society are inundated in the spirit of Ramadan.
