Tag: Hijab
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BREAKING: Muslims protest as reps postpones hearing on Hijab saga indefinitely
The House of Representatives joint committee on Justice and Judiciary has adjourned its public hearing on the hijab controversy between the Nigerian Law School and a law school graduate, Miss. Firdaus Amasa, due to a court injunction. This decision by the lawmaker according to witnesses outraged the Muslim faithful at the hearing as a protest…
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Hijab controversy: Court restrains Reps from holding public hearing
The Federal High Court, Abuja, has restrained the House of Representatives from conducting a planned public hearing on the hijab controversy between the Nigerian Law School and Ms Firdrusa Abdulsalam. Justice Anwuli Chikere gave the order on Wednesday in her ruling on an application filed by a coalition of legal practitioners seeking to stop the…
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MURIC demands review of Nigerian Law School dress code
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has demanded that AbdulSalaam Firdaus Amasa be immediately called to bar by the Nigerian Law School. The rights group made the demand in a memorandum it dispatched to the House of Representatives Committee on Judiciary and Justice. The House of Representatives committee was mandated on Wednesday, 20 December, 2017, to…
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Muslim students condemn position of Law school on Hijab use
The Muslim Lawyers’ Association of Nigeria has described as unlawful the recent refusal by the Nigerian Law School to allow Firdaus Amasa entrance into the venue of the ‘Call to Bar’ ceremony recently in Abuja because she put on hijab. MULAN made the declaration in a communique on Monday in Katsina shortly after its three-day…
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Muslim group wants to embark on nationwide protest over hijab controversy
The Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) has threatened to embark on a nationwide strike over the controversy on hijab. Amasa Firdaus, a graduate of the Nigeria Law School, was denied her called to bar for wearing a hijab to the ceremony. This had attracted criticisms. Commenting on the development, NSCIA asked federal government through…
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Lawmakers join ‘hijab debate’ urge committee to investigate alleged rights violation
The House of Representatives on Tuesday intervened in the raging controversy over the refusal of the Nigerian Law School to call a graduate, Amasa Firdaus, to the Bar. The House directed its Committees on Justice and Judiciary to investigate the matter and make appropriate recommendations to the floor. The resolution followed a motion moved by…
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Hijab controversy: Osun Muslim community asks Nigeria’s council of legal education to apologize to Firdaus, Muslims
The Osun State Muslim Community has demanded an apology from the Nigeria’s Council of Legal Education over the treatment meted out to a female law school graduate, Firdaus Amasa Abdussalam who was prevented from being called to the bar because of her hijab. The Acting President of the body, Alhaji Mustafa Olawuyi while briefing journalists…
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Hijab crisis: Sultan of Sokoto condemns Law school, says Hijab usage recognised by Nigerian law
Sultan of Sokoto, Dr. Mohammad Sa’ad Abubakar has reacted to the raging controversy over Hijab. He decried the controversy, stating that Hijab simply meant decent dressing for Muslim women and was part and parcel of Islam. Speaking in Lagos on Saturday during the fifth National Convention of Muslim Public Affairs Centre (MPAC) he stressed that…
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Law School vs hijab controversy: You can’t wear religious garb during secular ceremony – Fani-Kayode
Former Minister of Aviation, Fani Kayode, has blamed Amasa Firdaus, a graduate of University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), who was denied ‘call to bar’ by officials of the Council of Legal Education (CLE) for failing to remove her veil, otherwise known as hijab. Fani kayode says Firdaus was only being childish and disingenuous as Nigeria is…
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Hijab: I’m fighting for freedom of those coming behind me – UNILORIN law graduate
Sequel to a brawl that occurred at the Nigerian Law School earlier in the week over the admittance of a graduate of the institute to the venue of the call to the bar ceremony for appearing in hijab (headscarf), the affected graduate, Firdaus Amasa, has said her insistence not to put off the hijab was…