By Aluta News April 21, 2024 The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has sanctioned some of its accredited officials for demanding that a hijab-wearing candidate at Saturday’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination must remove her headgear. The officials, at one of the examination centres in Lagos, had insisted that removalContinue Reading
By Aluta News Just 22, 2022 The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN), Lagos State Area Unit, has called on the state government to issue within 30 days a circular that allows Muslim female students to wear hijab, following Supreme Court ruling. Malam Miftahudeen Thanni, the President, MSSN, Lagos chapterContinue Reading
By Aluta News Feb. 6, 2022 Muslim women from different Islamic Organisations, under the aegis of Coalition of Nigerian Muslim women, on Saturday converged in the Unity Park, Abuja, to create awareness on the significance of wearing Hijab. They called on relevant government agencies to protect women wearing Hijab fromContinue Reading
By Aluta News Feb. 1, 2022 Coalition of Nigerian Muslim Women has urged the National Assembly to ensure speedy passage of the Religious Discrimination Prohibition Prevention Bill, 2021 to protect the rights of females to adorn hijab in public. The Spokesperson of the coalition, Mrs Maryam Ahman, made the callContinue Reading
