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HAJIYA AISHA LEMU’S DEMISE: AN UNFILLABLE VACUUM

Barely one week after the demise of Nigeria’s first Executive President, Alhaji Shehu Usman Shagari, who was buried on the last Saturday of December 2018, the Nigerian Muslim Ummah was bombarded with another breaking news, last Saturday, of the demise of a great and exem...

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JUMADAL-HULA PRESS RELEASE

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 cres...

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SHEHU SHAGARI: THE DEMISE OF A PRESIDENTIAL ICON

When the media announced the demise of a Nigerian political icon and first Executive President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Alhaji Shehu Aliyu Usman Shagari, last Friday with a reverberation effect across the world, many Nigerians with rich experience in various asp...

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RABIUL-THANI PRESS RELEASE

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 cres...

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RABIUL AWWAL 1440AH PRESS RELEASE

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, wishes to inform the Nigerian Muslim Ummah that there was positive sighting of the cresce...

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KADUNA FURY: WE ARE DISTURBED

Once again, national and international radio waves throbbed with disturbing news of an outbreak of crisis in Kaduna, the capital city of Kaduna State. The crisis was said to have consumed about 55 lives with scores of people sustaining injuries. The immediate cause of the...

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SAFAR 1440AH PRESS RELEASE

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, wishes to inform the Nigerian Muslim Ummah that there was no positive sighting of the cre...

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KUKAH’S VIRULENT INTOLERANCE AND SELECTIVE AMNESIA

That one of the major problems assailing Nigeria as a corporate entity is situated within the religious and pseudo-religious elite is a fact that does not require any shred of evidence to the discerning. Nothing illustrates the foregoing submission more than the usual hoo...

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1439AH ‘EIDEL ADHA GOODWILL MESSAGE

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 – felicitates with the Nigerian Muslim ‘ Ummah and indeed the entire Muslim world on th...

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DHUL-HIJJAH 1439AH PRESS RELEASE

After due consultation with scholars, the National Moon Sighting Committee (NMSC) and the Fatwa Committee of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), it was decided that the dates of Dhul-Qa’adah be adjusted to make today Sunday, 12th of August, 2018, th...

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KILLINGS: LET THE TRUTH BE TOLD

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, is deeply saddened and devastated by the orgy of violence and mindless killings being per...

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END OF RAMADAN 1439AH (2018G) FAST AND ‘IDUL-FITR CELEBRATIONS

  ۞يَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ الْأَهِلَّةِۖ قُلْ هِيَ مَوَاقِيتُ لِلنَّاسِ وَالْحَجَّ “They ask you, [O Muhammad], about the new moons. Say, "They are measurements of time for the people and for Hajj.”(Al-B...

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DEATH OF A MEDIA ICON

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, received with sorrow and grief the announcement of the death of the Chairman of the Punch...

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JUSTICE AKANBI’S DEMISE

Nigeria’s radio waves throbbed with a worrisome breaking news very early Sunday morning (June 3, 2018) announcing the demise of a Nigerian colossus, Justice Muhammad Mustapha Akanbi, the pioneer Chairman of Independent Corrupt Practices (and other related offences) Com...

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RAMADAN 1439AH PRESS RELEASE

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 positive sighting of the crescen...

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