- Ta’awunu Human Rights Initiative has criticized the management of FUNAAB for prohibiting female Muslim students from wearing veils
- Some female Muslim students were recently barred from taking exams because they wore hijabs into the examination hall
- The organization urged the university’s management to respect the verdict of courts of record and stop harassing female Muslim students wearing veils
Ta’awunu Human Rights Initiative, a human rights organisation, has criticised the management of the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta (FUNAAB) for prohibiting female Muslim students from wearing veils.
Some female Muslim students were recently barred from taking exams because they wore hijabs into the examination hall.
Sulaymon Tadese, the organization’s Director-General, stated that the veil worn by women is part of Muslim women’s and girls’ dress in accordance with Allah’s injunction that females conceal their faces.
According to Tadese, the university’s decision to prohibit female Muslim students from wearing veils amounts to denying them the right to practise their religion and attempting to create a religious crisis in the institution.
He also stated that different courts of record have ruled that wearing a veil is not prohibited in Nigeria and is not a criminal offence.
He urged the University’s Vice Chancellor, Professor Olusola Kehinde, and the Dean of Students Affairs, Professor Oluseyi Ojekunle, to respect the verdict and stop harassing female Muslim students wearing veils.
According to him;
Even in the Northern part of the country where there are serious security challenges, veil is allowed within the ambit of recognized limit in which female security personnel check and frisk anyone wearing the veil.
The school is yet to react to the allegation.
Islamic Calendar: Kano, Osun declare Wednesday work free day
The Kano State Government has declared Wednesday, July 19, work-free to mark the beginning of the 1445 Islamic (Hijrah) New Year.
This was contained in a statement issued by Baba Dantiye, the Commissioner for Information, on behalf of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf on Tuesday, NAN reports.
The governor, who congratulated Muslims globally on the new Islamic year, charged civil servants and other people in Kano to pray for peace and tranquillity as well as the economic development of the state and Nigeria at large.
Yusuf also called on the people to live their lives based on the teachings of Islam.