Islamic clerics call for harmony among Islamic societies at NAFSAT Iftar

By our correspondent

The resident Imam, University of Lagos, Dr. Mustapha Ibrahim, on Sunday, called for peace and harmony among Islamic societies so as to build a nation of our dreams.

He spoke as the Guest Speaker at the Iftar organised for media executives in Lagos by the Nasrul Lahi Faith Society, NASFAT with the theme ‘Search for religious harmony, peace and development

: The role of Islamic societies.’

According to him, the major role of Islamic societies is to come together and promote peace, adding that the ‘ present successes achieved Islamic societies in this part of the world is by accident and not design.’

He lamented the division among Islamic societies and advised ‘ going different ways will not help us at all.’

“If we are truly interested in attaining religious harmony and peace, we should facilitate methodic teaching of quranic aims of human existence and the objective of sharia. If we come together. If we come together, we would be able to achieve more results than what we are achieving now,” he said.

He further opined that any community based on a network of chaotic human relationship and comes under slightest attempts of provocation and ignorance will experience religious disharmony.

“When people lack knowledge of what is right or wrong, such a

ANEEJ, other CSOs demand UN Convention on tax

From: Femi Oyelola, Kaduna nation will be turned into a jungle on earth,” he said.

As the 4th United Nations Financing for Development Conference gets underway in New York, Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), and others Civil Society actors have demanded a United Nations Convention on tax as key to global tax reforms.

This was contained in a statement by the Deputy Executive Director, ANEEJ, Leo Atakpu and made available to the media in Kaduna yesterday.

The statement stated that Nigeria had been a major champion for tax reform or tax Convention at the United Nations.

The President, NAFSAT, Abdul- Mumin Niyi Yusuf, in his opening remarks, urged the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu ‘to lead in a different way. ‘

“It should no longer be business as usual. We expect new leadership that will give us a prosperous nation,” he said.

Highlight of the event was the unveiling of Lasilkiin Communication, a new media arm of NAFSAT.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo(middle), Governor of Plateau State Simon Lalong(2nd right), Director General National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Prof. Ayo Omotayo(4th left) with other participants at the maiden edition of the Policy making and Good Governance Lecture series at the National Institute in Kuru Jos, Plateau State, yesterday. PHOTO STATE HOUSE