• Hausa Edition
  • Podcast
  • Conferences
  • LeVogue Magazine
  • Business News
  • Print Advert Rates
  • Online Advert Rates
  • Contact Us
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Leadership Newspapers
Read in Hausa
  • Home
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Health
  • Entertainment
  • Opinion
    • Editorial
  • Columns
  • Football
  • Others
    • LeVogue Magazine
    • Conferences
    • National Economy
  • Contact Us
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Health
  • Entertainment
  • Opinion
    • Editorial
  • Columns
  • Football
  • Others
    • LeVogue Magazine
    • Conferences
    • National Economy
  • Contact Us
No Result
View All Result
Leadership Newspapers
No Result
View All Result

NSCIA Scribe, Envoy To UK, Others Intervene In Egba Muslim Leadership Feud

by Leadership News
2 years ago
in News
Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on XTelegram

Prominent indigenes of Egbaland including the secretary-general of the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) Prof Ishaq Oloyede have waded into the suspension of the Chief Imam of Egbaland, Alhaji Saad Bamgbola.

Advertisement

Oloyede, who is also the registrar and chief executive officer of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK), who is also the Baba Adeen of Yorubaland, Edo and Delta states, Ambassador Sarafa Tunji Ishola, are among the community leaders who urged the Muslim faithful to embrace peace and unity of the religion at this critical time.

They made the appeal to the entire Egba Muslim community yesterday to sheathe their sword on the consequent suspension of the Egba chiefs who took part in the matter.

Ambassador Ishola who spoke online from the UK to newsmen in Abeokuta, Ogun State in an effort to douse the tension, said he and Oloyede, as high stakeholders, had fully engaged all those involved in the dispute in serious peace talks and urged them to ceasefire immediately.

The ambassador further disclosed that they had persuaded all those involved to maintain the peace and not to take any further action that might aggravate the already tense situation.

RELATED

You Are Desperate For Self-serving Power, APC Chides Atiku, Amaechi, El-Rufai

You Are Desperate For Self-serving Power, APC Chides Atiku, Amaechi, El-Rufai

4 hours ago
My Support For Tinubu Not For Personal Gain – Kalu

My Support For Tinubu Not For Personal Gain – Kalu

4 hours ago

He added that all those involved had accepted a ceasefire pending further action to resolve all the issues.

Ishola revealed more that steps were being taken at the level of the Alake of Egbaland for an enduring resolution that would promote peace, mutual respect and understanding among the Muslim leadership and followership within the Egba Muslim community.

The high commissioner, therefore, enjoined all Muslim leaders involved in the crisis not to issue or make further press statements concerning the matter until further notice.

He said it was in the best interest of Islamic peace, progress and prosperity that Islamic schism must be avoided at all costs in Egbaland, Ogun State and elsewhere in Nigeria.

There was confusion in Abeokuta on Tuesday when the news of the suspension of the Chief Imam of Egbaland, Alhaji Saad Bamgbola was announced.

It was reported that some notable Muslims in Egbaland had, on Monday, announced the suspension of Bamgbola, over allegations of “high-handedness, administrative exclusivity, mishandling of funds and conflicting of interest between his position as the Chief Imam and membership of another association”.

It was gathered that aggrieved Egba Muslim chiefs, led by the former military administrator of Bauchi State, Navy Captain Rasheed Raji (rtd) had on Monday announced the suspension of the chief imam and appointed a second-in-command.

Reacting to the development, the Imams and Alfas in the Egba community rejected the suspension of the grand chief imam by the chiefs.

They described the suspension of their leader as an “embarrassment to the Islamic religion and an act capable of causing religious war in the town.”

Addressing newsmen in Abeokuta on Tuesday, three principal chief imams who make up the other three sections of Egbaland, condemned the purported suspension of the grand Chief Imam of Egbaland.

They said only the council of Islamic clerics in the town had the power to appoint or suspend the Chief Imam.

They are the Imams of Owu, Gbagura and Oke-Ona Egba, Alhaji Kehinde Sulaimon; Professor Kamaldeen Balogun and Alhaji Muslimudeen Nasirudeen, respectively.

Speaking on behalf of the Muslim community after a meeting at Kobiti Central Mosque in Abeokuta on Tuesday, the Chief Imam said the suspension of the grand chief imam was null and void.

He said the suspension did not follow the stipulated process of appointment and removal of Imams in the land.

 


We’ve got the edge. Get real-time reports, breaking scoops, and exclusive angles delivered straight to your phone. Don’t settle for stale news. Join LEADERSHIP NEWS on WhatsApp for 24/7 updates →

Join Our WhatsApp Channel

Breaking NEWS: Nigerians can now earn in US Dollars, acquire ultra premium domains for low and sell for super profit. Our client acquired a domain for $3715 and got it sold for $42,000. Click here to see how you too can profit from the business.


SendShareTweetShare
Previous Post

A/Ibom, Yobe, Katsina Top Transparency, Accountability Audit Index

Next Post

Court Convicts Fugitive For N47.6m Fraud

Leadership News

Leadership News

You May Like

You Are Desperate For Self-serving Power, APC Chides Atiku, Amaechi, El-Rufai
News

You Are Desperate For Self-serving Power, APC Chides Atiku, Amaechi, El-Rufai

2025/06/03
My Support For Tinubu Not For Personal Gain – Kalu
News

My Support For Tinubu Not For Personal Gain – Kalu

2025/06/03
Tinubu Celebrates NNPC Group CEO Ojulari At 60
News

Tinubu Celebrates NNPC Group CEO Ojulari At 60

2025/06/03
Residents Applaud Mbah, Police Intervention In Enugu Community Killing
News

Police Nab 6 Suspected Notorious Gang Members, Recover Arms In Lagos

2025/06/02
Inmates Of Delta Correctional Centres Cleared To Write WAEC
News

Late Exams: Reps Gives WAEC 24 Hours To Submit Guidelines, Report

2025/06/02
Kogi Govt Accuses EFCC Of Fresh Media Trial
News

EFCC Re-arraigns Alleged Cybercrime, Terrorism Kingpin

2025/06/02
Leadership Conference advertisement

LATEST

You Are Desperate For Self-serving Power, APC Chides Atiku, Amaechi, El-Rufai

Griezmann Signs Deal To Extend Stay At Atletico Madrid

My Support For Tinubu Not For Personal Gain – Kalu

Tinubu Celebrates NNPC Group CEO Ojulari At 60

Police Nab 6 Suspected Notorious Gang Members, Recover Arms In Lagos

Late Exams: Reps Gives WAEC 24 Hours To Submit Guidelines, Report

EFCC Re-arraigns Alleged Cybercrime, Terrorism Kingpin

Empowering First-Time Homebuyers Through Policy And Education

Eid-el-Kabir: Yobe Gov’t Shuts Schools For 10 Days

FRSC Begins Probe Of Kano Athletes’ Accident

© 2025 Leadership Media Group - All Rights Reserved.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Health
  • Entertainment
  • Opinion
    • Editorial
  • Columns
  • Football
  • Others
    • LeVogue Magazine
    • Conferences
    • National Economy
  • Contact Us

© 2025 Leadership Media Group - All Rights Reserved.