The Lagos State House of Assembly is considering enacting a law to regulate alms begging within the state, according to Mr. Obasa. He revealed this plan during an interview at the launch of the Ibile Muslim Community Zakat and Sadaqah Foundation in Lagos.Highlighting the need for such legislation, Mr. Obasa explained that the proposed law aims to empower the state government and organizations like the Ibile Muslim Community Zakat and Sadaqah Foundation to oversee an...

Professor Afiz Oladosu, a former dean of the University of Ibadan's faculty of arts, has urged Muslim communities and organizations to set up systems that will deter or lessen Muslim begging nationwide.The professor of Arabic and Islamic studies insisted that Muslim organizations, groups, and societies have a responsibility to put policies in place to prevent situations where some people choose to make begging their profession.On Sunday in Ibadan, during the confere...

Subsequent to the news that went viral yesterday that the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has sneaked out to the US to beg Twitter, which was reported by a popular online media report that he “sneaked out of Nigeria to meet with Twitter executive’’ in the U.S. is fake.In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Washington on Wednesday, the minister said his official visit to the U.S. has nothing to do with the microblogging and...