Hijab: CAN Responsible For Kwara Violence – MURIC

Violence erupted yesterday at the Baptist Secondary School, Surulere, Ilorin, Kwara State over the alleged refusal of the school authorities to allow female Muslim students to use hijab. It was gathered that parents of the students engaged the school authorities in a hot argument which resulted into a stone-throwing contest between Christians and Muslims. Reacting […]

Hijab: MURIC accuses CAN of plans to strip Muslim schoolgirls naked in public, asks Kwara Govt to ‘Possess Your Possession’

The Nigerian Islamic human rights organization, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has accused the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Kwara Chapter of plans to strip Muslim schoolgirls naked in public. It would be recalled that following the recent hijab controversies that erupted in the State, the government had ruled that Muslim schoolgirls will be allowed […]

Kwara Bursary Scam: I Did Not See List of Beneficiaries – EFCC Witness

The trial in the alleged mismanagement of scholarship funds to the tune of N100million involving the immediate past chairperson of Kwara State Scholarship Board, Hajia Fatimoh Yusuf and two other principal officers of the Board resumed on Tuesday with a prosecution witness, Lawal Abdulwahab, telling Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court sitting […]

Kwara: Don’t distract the driver, please!

After years of being left in the lurch, divine intervention came for Nigeria’s State of Harmony, Kwara when, in 2019, the people elected what came close to their idea of a people’s government. The election of His Excellency Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq lifted people’s moral and the governor, aware of the heavy burden on his shoulders, literally […]

Buhari Directs Support To 12 Flood-Affected States

President Muhammadu Buhari Saturday took stock of the flood situation in the country and authorized the dispatch of special teams to deliver urgently needed assistance to 12 states most ravaged by the seasonal rains. The development was contained in a statement by the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu. The states […]