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Many Islamic marriages in Ghana are not valid because they’re not registered – Lawyer

A legal practitioner, Sena Hotor has said that the majority of Islamic marriages in Ghana are not recognised by law. According to him, this is because most Muslims, particularly those within the deprived communities, are ignorant about the law. He said the Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in various regions of the country keep records of marriages, which most people are…

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Allow Muslim scholars and Arabic experts to develop curriculum - Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid

The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA), has been urged to allow only Islamic and Quranic experts to develop a curriculum for Islam studies. A founding member of Talim Ghana, a Muslim organisation, Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, said currently, the practice was that educational experts who had no basic understanding of the Islamic religion were given the opportunity to develop a…

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The philosophy of Islam enjoins Muslim women to have education – Shamima Muslim

Founder and convenor of Alliance For Women in Media Africa (AWMA), Shamima Muslim has pointed out that there is a renaissance within the Muslim community and that has caught up with the Muslim woman with regard to education. According to her, the educational and professional development outcomes for the Muslim woman were at the barest minimum in the past but it is not so anymore because there is…

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Muslims urged to embrace formal education to offer critical expertise to national development

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called on Muslims to take advantage of the Government’s progressive educational policies to enable them to continue to offer critical expertise to national development. President Akufo-Addo said by embracing formal education, Muslim children would be afforded the opportunity to rise to the highest levels of their calling. He, thus, encouraged Muslims to…

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Hostwriter's annual award for outstanding collaborative journalism is open for entry

There are two Hostwriter Prize categories. The Story Prize is for collaborative pieces researched and published by July 31st, 2023. The Pitch Prize is open to journalists with an excellent idea for a story that would be realized with at least one other collaboration partner or more. Story Prize The Hostwriter Story Prize awards exemplary works of journalistic collaboration. It’s open to teams…

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Zongo youth advised to pursue personal development goals

The Zongo youth have been advised to invest their time in productive ventures that could shape their future and make them useful to society. They have been asked to also pursue personal development goals to make them economically independent and contribute meaningfully to the development of their communities. Mr Bashiru Sheihu, an Educationist who gave the advice, encouraged the Zongo youth to…

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Ayawaso Muslim Development Fund launched

The Ayawaso Muslim Development Fund which is a socio-economic development fund created to support the communities in the Ayawaso districts was launched at the Ahlu-Sunna Wal Jamah Office on June 15, 2023. The event brought together all 23 Assembly members, approximately 60 Jummah Mosque Imams, chiefs, opinion leaders, women groups, and municipal chief executives from the East, North, and Central…

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First and second batches of 7,000 Hajj pilgrims from Ghana arrive in Saudi Arabia

860 Hajj pilgrims have arrived in Saudi Arabia from the Tamale International Airport to perform their Islamic spiritual duties. They form part of the 2,000 pilgrims to be airlifted from the airport in northern Ghana. The rest of the pilgrims who make up 5,000 would be airlifted from the Kotoka International Airport in Accra to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for Hajj 2023 which officially begins…

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$5000 grant for African storytellers (podcaster, blogger, TikToker, or vlogger) to create content on climate change

Are you an African podcaster, blogger, TikToker, or vlogger passionate about telling stories of climate change in Africa beyond news that focuses on disasters and climate crisis? Africa No Filter, in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, is looking for storytellers in Africa and the Diaspora to create exciting content that shows a continent that’s taking action against climate change. The…

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Fellowships for Journalists to Cover the Seventh Global Environment Facility (GEF) Assembly in Vancouver, Canada

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is a multilateral environmental fund that provides funding to assist low- and middle-income countries in meeting the objectives of international environmental conventions such as the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), UN…

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Profile of the late Shaikh Rashad, an eminent Ghanaian Islamic scholar and Arabic poet who died in Kumasi

On the 16th of February 2023, the death was reported of Shaikh Rashad at the Kumasi Zongo. Below is a short biography of the Shaikh who is well-known among Muslims, particularly scholars. His father’s name is Ahmed Bin Sulaiman and his mother’s name UmKulthum, daughter of Amir Salaw. His parents were Dandes from Benin who settled at the Kumasi Zongo. He was born in 1930 and had 11 children (six…

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Otumfuo renews bond with Zongo communities in Kumasi

Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has graced a Quran recitation ceremony put together by the office of Kumasi Zongo Nkosuohene (Development Chief), Ali Barry, in collaboration with the Council of Ulamau in the Ashanti Region to mark the 75th birthday of the Asantehene. Held at the forecourt of the Manhyia Palace, the Asantehene took the opportunity to urge Muslims in the Ashanti Region to maintain the…

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Happy Africa Day

Africa’s problem is self-sabotage. We gained independence and had a chance to develop our nations and people. But, we let neo-colonisation – as Nkrumah calls it – get in the way. We destroyed ourselves through coup d’etats for decades, and when we allowed democracy in, we sabotaged ourselves again with capitalism spearheaded by the West and spreading endemic poverty. Then aid dependency became…

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Say No To Drugs campaign launched for Zongo communities

Launch of Say No To Drugs campaign for Zongo communities – Source: Graphic Online Alhaji Salamu Amadu, the National Zongo Youth Ambassador for Peace and Development, and the concerned youth from Nima and Mamobi in the Ayawaso North and East Municipalities have launched the Say No To Drugs campaign to combat drug addiction among the youth and guide them towards a drug-free life. Abdul Fatahu…

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Battle for Savannah Regional Chief Imam position in force

Source: Nkiligi FM Online “So long as Gonjaland remains Savannah region, every Yagbon Imam should be the automatic Imam of the region just as every Yagbonwura is the automatic President of the Savannah regional house of Chiefs and that using the Yagbon Imam as Savannah Region Chief Imam will solve many issues in future because there are already existing Islamic Traditional processes in place to…

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Good Characters of Muslim Men in Ghana

The first important thing about Good Characters of Muslim Men in Ghana that I will explain today is “What does it mean to be a good Muslim man in Ghana?” Being a good Muslim man is among the largest desires of every Muslim man. I say this because if they have become good Muslim man, they have succeeded in ending up being Muslim man. Generally, we can understand that a good Muslim man is a man…

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Sectarian Conflict Brewing – The Underground Tensions No One Is Talking About

Religious tolerance is a critical aspect in promoting unity and maintaining harmonious relationships between different religious followers and Ghana has come a long way as a multi-religious society where a myriad of people from different backgrounds live together in mutual respect and tolerance. Ghana’s constitution provides for freedom of religion, and to practice it freely. Promoting a…