THE Muslim Association of Nigeria (MAN) has asked Muslims and other Nigerians who believe in the existence of God and in the reality of the Day of Judgment to return to the path of rectitude where everyone wants for themselves what they want for fellow human beings.
MAN made this plea in a communique after its 36th national conference held in Lagos on Saturday, December 30, 2023, where a lecture titled ‘Nigeria and the Prospects of Socio-Economic Stability: Islamic Perspectives’ was delivered by Dr Saheed Timehin of the Department of Foreign Languages, Lagos State University.
The deputy governor of Lagos State, Dr Obafemi Kadiri Hamzat, delivered the keynote speech as the special guest of honour at the conference, where the association elected Dhikrullah Yagboyaju, a professor of Political Science, as its president.
In the communique after the conference signed by the new president, Professor Yagboyaju and the General Secretary, Bolaji Odekunle, MAN lamented that despite the abundance of human and material resources in Nigeria, the country has continuously been bedeviled by the problems of high level of poverty and crime.
According to the association, experts in the country have helped in fashioning socio-economic theories and development plans but the nation has remained “a paradox of being rich, yet being poor.”
It attributed the country’s problems to greediness, impunity and lack of institutional capacity to sanction offenders.
The association, therefore, implored the family to rise up to its responsibility of building a decent society and encouraged government to embark on massive inculcation of moral ethos for restoration of social order and acceleration of economic prosperity.
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