SAUDI Arabia will allow pilgrims living inside the country to undertake the umrah pilgrimage, beginning from October 4, after a seven-month pause due to the coronavirus pandemic, state news agency, Saudi Press Agency (SPA), has reported. In March, the country declared a freeze on umrah, which is an Islamic pilgrimage to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina undertaken any time of the year. It attracted 19 million people last year. Saudi Arabia will now allow 6,000 citizens and residents inside the kingdom to perform umrah daily, representing 30 per...

Jaiz Bank Plc, Nigeria’s premier non-interest bank has been awarded as the Most Improved Islamic Bank 2020 in the world by the Global Islamic Finance Awards (GIFA). The Global Islamic Finance Awards (GIFA) are one of the most prestigious awards in Islamic banking and finance. Other prestigious awards are Islamic Development Bank Prize in Islamic Banking and Finance (also known as ‘IDB Prize’) and The Royal Award for Islamic Finance, founded by the government of Malaysia. In a congratulatory letter to Hassan Usman, Managing Director/CE of Jaiz Bank, Professor Humayon Dar, the...

Jaiz Bank Plc, the premier non-interest Bank in Nigeria and the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) have signed a Hajj Savings Scheme that would make it easier for every Muslim in the country to perform the annual hajj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. Chairman of Jaiz Bank Alhaji (Dr.) Umaru Abdul Mutallab and Managing Director Hassan Usman signed the agreement on behalf of the bank while Chairman/Chief Executive of NAHCON Alhaji Zikrullah Kunle Hassan for Hajj Commission. In his remark, Jaiz Bank MD said the scheme was aimed at making...

Elon Musk isn't content with electric cars, shooting people into orbit, populating Mars and building underground tunnels to solve traffic problems. He also wants to get inside your brain.His startup, Neuralink, wants to one day implant computer chips inside the human brain. The goal is to develop implants that can treat neural disorders — and that may one day be powerful enough to put humanity on a more even footing with possible future superintelligent computers.Not that it's anywhere close to that yet.In a video demonstration Friday explicitly aimed at recruiting...

And those days (are of different conditions); We alternate them among people…(Quran 3: 140) He is in Junior Secondary School One in a public school in Lagos. He is the third child. His other siblings are four. His father is a former student of mine and now a younger colleague in another university. Face to face with the challenges of life and living in a city on its path to postmodernity, and in order to track the movement of his beloved young boy, particularly at a time when everybody is...

Poised to empower vulnerable Muslims, despite the pandemic, the Lekki Muslim Ummah (LEMU) has disbursed N70 million to 317 Muslims in Lagos State. During the yearly Zakat disbursement targeted at the less privileged, widows, the needy, the sick and orphans, cash and working tools were given to both male and female beneficiaries. Some of the items include 10 tricycles, 17 sewing machines, 28 deep freezers, one grinding machine, four generators, three computer laptops and one dispatch bike. Speaking at the event, Chairman, LEMU Zakat Committee, Alhaji Yunus Olalekan Saliu, said...

The Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has appealed to the National Hajj Commission (NAHCON) to review the subsisting airlifting policy with a view to giving more consideration to local airliners. The governor made the plea when he received the Chairman of NAHCON, Alhaji Zikirullah Kunle Hassan and his team at Government House, Sokoto. Saying that the existing policy at a point almost discouraged local airliners from operating, Tambuwal suggested that NAHCON should encourage them to improve on their modus operandi by measuring up to international visa standard. ‘’We...

The Companion (Association of Muslim Men in Business) has condemned the comments credited to the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) on President Muhammadu Buhari’s encounter with the U.S President, Donald Trump, recently accusing him of being responsible for the killings of Christians in Nigeria. “The comments credited to the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) vice president and chairman of the association in Kaduna State, Reverend John Hayab, saying that the president’s response to the rather offensive and ridiculous question asked by President Trump ‘that the killing was cultural, and not...