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By Charles Coffie Gyamfi, Abeokuta
05 August 2016   |   1:31 am
A Muslim Cleric has hailed a Lagos High Court ruling permitting students to wear hijab to school and urged all the states to follow suit.

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• Hails court ruling on Hijab

A Muslim Cleric has hailed a Lagos High Court ruling permitting students to wear hijab to school and urged all the states to follow suit.

Alhaji Mushafau Kehinde Alaran who is the President of the Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN), Zone B urged all the State Governors to allow the usage of hijabs in the schools, stressing that there shouldn’t be any agitation before the students could be allowed to wear hijab to school.

The Cleric who spoke in Abeokuta, during a quiz competition organised for Muslim students across Ogun State affirmed: “We are happy with the judgment. It made us to believe in the Nigerian judiciary. Don’t allow us to agitate before we can wear it, don’t allow us to agitate to know our right because wearing it, is our right.”

He enjoined all Nigerians to be tolerant, saying, “the society is going to disarray because we have failed to follow the instruction of our creator.”

The cleric disclosed that the MSSN was in full support of the anti-graft war of President Muhammadu Buhari and appealed to all Nigerians to be patient with the present administration.

“ We appreciate the anti-graft war of this present administration, we want all and sundry to support it. Let us be patient with him (President Buhari) in his move to actualize the change agenda. What the President is fighting is a culminated situation moreover Rome was not built in a day. We must all exercise caution to feel the impact of good governance.”

He lamented that sordid state of secondary schools system, which was known for academic and moral excellence, has now become theatre of criminal activities.

His words “Until recently, our Secondary schools are known for academic and moral excellence. There was healthy rivalry between secondary schools students in literary and debating, Sports and of course, Quranic competition. The students irrespective of their specialisations were exposed to character moulding, literatures and other valuable materials. Regrettably, things had recently fallen apart in our schools. Our secondary school students are now champions in cultism, examination malpractices and all sorts of immorality.”

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