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11th Jumadah At-Thaniyyah 1436AH 1st April, 2015                                                                                                                Â...

11th Jumadah At-Thaniyyah 1436AH 1st April, 2015 His Excellency, General Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd.) GCFR President-Elect, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Abuja. Assalaam alaikum, CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), under the lead...

11th Jumadah At-Thaniyyah 1436AH 1st April, 2015 His Excellency, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Aso Villa, Abuja. Your Excellency, LETTER OF COMMENDATION The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), under the lead...

The attention of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) has been drawn to an ongoing advertisement on Nigeria Television Authority (NTA). The advertisement sponsored by 'Initiative for Peaceful Election', apparently on behalf of a political party, contai...

On November 29, 2012, the United Nations General Assembly held its 67th General Assembly Plenary where 188 countries voted on a draft resolution to accord Palestine ‘Non-Member Observer State’ status in United Nations. The draft resolution 67/19 was adopted by a record...

In a front page lead story (without a by-line) published in Sunday Tribune of December 28, 2014 and entitled ‘Division Within Core North Widens’, the Ibadan-based newspaper claimed that “the elite and opinion leaders among the Hausa Fulani stock are split down the l...

10th Rabi-ul-awwal, 1436AH (1st January, 2015) Nigeria’s Federal Government openly traded off its conscience last Tuesday night at the United Nations Security Council meeting where voting on a proposed resolution to stop Israeli occupation of West Bank area of Palestine...

(Lagos, 31/12/2014) The Muslim Public Affairs Centre (MPAC) is deeply concerned over the apparent shift in Nigeria's foreign policy made apparent yesterday by the refusal of Nigeria to cast a "Yes" vote during the question of Palestine and the Palestinians’ bid to be for...

NATIONAL MOON SIGHTING COMMITTEE OF THE NSCIA Nigerian Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs National Headquarters National Mosque, ABUJA 29 Muharram, 1436AH (22November, 2014) His Eminence Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, CFR, mni Sultan of Sokoto & President-General...

This is to formally convey to all that the National Moon Sighting Committee (NMSC) has reported and the President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), His Emminence, Alhaji Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar mni, CFR, has approved that Saturday the 25t...

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4th Dhul-Hijjah, 1435AH 29th September, 2014 The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) under the astute leadership of the Sultan of Sokoto and President General, NSCIA, His Eminence, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, CFR, mni, congratulates the entire Musli...

Preamble When the media waves throbbed with the breaking news of a Nigerian Private jet seized in South Africa last week for smuggling the sum of $9.3 million cash, into that country, we were not surprised especially when the ownership of the private jet with US registrati...

History is an embodiment of experiences. It regales in teaching such experiences to humanity from time to time and from generation to generation. At a precarious time like this, when life seems not to be what it used or ought to be, Nigeria surely needs to draw from such e...

2014-08-04 Prof. Alkali, who is one of the six representatives of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, died at his residence in Maiduguri on Friday night, August 1, 2014. He was 68 years old. A Professor of History, he was a two-term Vice Chancellor of the Universi...