Today, the 83-year-old Nigerian Imam Abubakar Abdullahi will be among four other nationals (from Sudan, Brazil, Iraq and Cyprus) to receive the first-ever International Religious Freedom Award of the United States Government. He is the Imam of Nghar village who hid 262 Berom Christians in his mosque and in his house in June last year […]
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Category: Islam & Media
Hodan Nalayeh, a prominent journalist, TV personality and founder of IntegrationTV — a Canada-based television platform and her husband, Farid Jama Suleiman were among the 26 people who were murdered in cold blood by a car suicide bomber and gunmen who attacked the Kismayo Hotel in Somalia on Friday. Another journalist, Mohamed Sahal Omar, a […]
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Disappointed but not surprised that the Firdaus Amasa Hijab victory didn’t make the covers of Nigeria’s top newspapers, Rasheed Abubakar, known for his critical and unbiased media reportage of Islam and Muslims did not only analyse how Barrister Amasa’s Hijab victory was conspicuously missing in the newspapers, he immediately took the bold step to float […]
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Despite President Donald Trump’s rhetoric and policies that have been solely focused on ‘radical Islamic terrorism’, new findings have revealed that most of the designated terrorist attacks in the US are executed by right-wing extremists, not Muslims. A joint project by the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute, a nonprofit media centre, and news outlet […]
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Ace journalist, Mr Rasheed Abubakar has attributed the major cause of Islamophobia in the world to the spate of terrorist attacks carried out by extremists who hide under the name of Islam. He made this disclosure yesterday, Friday while speaking at a media seminar on Islamophobia organised by the by the Muslim Students’ Society of […]
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On Tuesday, June 18, 2019, several top newspapers in the United Kingdom (UK) hit the newsstands, but from their front page headlines, there were no reports about the death of Mohamed Morsi, the first democratically elected president of Egypt, who died yesterday in Cairo after appearing at a court session. In what could be described […]
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– Takes oath of office with the Noble Qur’an The lawmaker-elect representing the All Progressives Congress (APC) from Surulere Constituency 1, Lagos, Hon Hakeem Femi Gbajabiamila has emerged the Speaker of the 9th Federal House of Representatives. He polled 283 votes to defeat his main opponent, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Umar Bago, who managed […]
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+ The millions the channels rake at off-peak periods By Rasheed Abubakar Muslim News’ investigations into the activities of different Muslim organisations and Madaaris (Arabic schools) in Nigeria during the off-peak period, particularly between 4:30 a.m. and 5 a.m. (local time) of every day in Ramadan, shows that there are clashes in the appearances of […]
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– Dedicates cover page to them By Mansur Ismaila Muslim News Nigeria has honoured a select group of Muslim media icons who have done Islam proud via their work in the different genres of journalism in Nigeria. This it did by publishing a canvas of their names and pictures on its latest cover. The said […]
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By Rasheed Abubakar I woke up on Wednesday morning, April 24, 2019 to receive a call from NIPOST, Surulere, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria that I have a parcel from New Zealand. Immediately, I knew what it was, as I had been expecting it since the day my beloved brother, Abdul-Hasib Suenu, who lives in Christchurch, New […]
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