The National Council of Muslim Youth Organizations (NACOMYO) has commended Nigerians over the perseverance and understanding showed during the hardship caused by the fuel scarcity in the country. The group through its National President, Kamal’ddin Akintunde said that such perseverance symbolizes patriotism, asking them to sustain such endurance and remain committed towards national goal.

African Heads of states and religious leaders have resolved that Nigeria would host the 2017 edition of the African Initiative on Education for Peace and Development through Inter-religious and Inter-cultural Dialogue. This resolution was adopted following the proposal from the former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo in his remarks on the second day of the international conference of the African initiative on education for peace and development in Cotonou, the Republic of Benin.

One of the ways a Muslim can carry out the commandments of Shari‘ah properly in the blessed month of Ramadan in a country like Nigeria where vices are common is by fully preparing for the month before its arrival. It is the habit of the righteous Muslims from the period of the first Muslims to prepare for the month about six months to the month.

The need for a change in our society, cannot be overemphasized. That is why the feeling and expectations of Nigerians are high today as President Muhammad Buhari takes over the baton of leadership. Nigeria, as we all know is currently mired in great challenges. The challenge of indiscipline, the challenge of corruption, terrorism, kidnapping and other form of insecurity; of favoritism, of ostentatiousness, of get-rich-quick of various kinds of impunity to mention a few.

Let me start answering this question by going back to the tenure of Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Regime, he really affected the performance and involvement of many people in Hajj positively. During his tenure he sponsored nothing less than 750 people from the state to perform the holy pilgrimage. When the outgoing Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola came in, he saw that as some sort of jamboree which he didn’t want to be part of, so from 750 people he reduced it to 300 people less than 50 percent of what the Tinubu regime used to sponsor.