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Assalamu Alaikum, The attention of NSCIA Secretariat has been drawn to a spurious mail being circulated by various fictitious email addresses (containing the same message), such as jdanght@gmail.com, shihheng36@gmail.com, etc, in the name of NSCIA. Below is a copy of the circulated E-mail (in red): Good day, It is the…

In the name of Allah the Beneficent the Merciful …If anyone slew a person –unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief on the land- his punishment would be as if he slew humanity as a whole and if anyone saved a life, his reward would be as if…

The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), under the leadership of its President-General and Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Alh. Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, CFR, mni, wishes to inform the Nigerian Muslim Ummah that, there was no positive sighting of the crescent of Rabiul-Thani, 1438AH on the 29th of Rabiul-Awwal,…

The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) under the leadership of its President-General and Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence Alh. Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, CFR, mni, wishes to inform the Nigerian Muslim Ummah that, there was no positive sighting of the crescent of Rabiul-Awwal, 1438AH on the 29th of Safar,…

Inna lillahi wa Inna ilaihi rajiun With total submission to the will of Almighty Allah, the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) receives with high sense of loss, the passing on of Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki, the very first Secretary-General of the Council and 18th Sultan of Sokoto, on Monday…

Safar 1438H Crescent Sighting Reminder

Date: 30th Dhul-Hijjah, 1437 AH 2nd October, 2016 HAPPY NEW HIJRAH YEAR 1438AH The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), under the leadership of its President-General and Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, CFR, mni, felicitates with the Nigerian Muslim Ummah and their counterparts all over…

Do not begin the fast until you sight the (Ramadan) crescent and do not terminate fasting until you sight it (Shawwal Crescent). If the new moon is concealed from you, then work out what it should be. The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), under the leadership of its…

“A judge can't have any agenda, a judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case and a judge certainly doesn't have a client. The judge's only obligation – and it's a solemn obligation – is to the rule of law.” ~ Samuel Alito (US Supreme Court Justice) Opening…

This is to refute the false statement ascribed to the Secretary-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, OFR, FNAL, (on page 2of Punch Newspaper of Friday, 10th June, 2016), that he was not aware that a woman was maliciously killed by a mob in…