Quran Contest for Women Held in Nigeria’s Zamfara State
The contest concluded with 19-year-old Halima Abdullahi, emerging as the overall winner.
Halima, from Anka Local Government Area, scored higher than the 35 other reciters in different categories of the competition, held between Friday last week and Monday.
The chairman of the organizing committee, Alhaji Nura Bello Alkali, said Abdullahi and other winners in the competition would represent the state in the African Quran Recitation Competition scheduled to hold in April in Ghana.
He said eight states, including Zamfara, had been selected to participate in the upcoming competition in Ghana, noting that the Zamfara State contingent would be made up of females only.
According to Alhaji Bello Alkali, participants in the just-concluded competition were drawn from all the 14 local government areas of the state.
In a remark, the state governor, Bello Matawalle, stressed the significance of memorizing the Quran and promised that his administration would continue to support the competition and other similar events in the state.
Governor Matawalle, represented by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Religious Affairs, Alhaji Yusuf Abdullahi Mayana, commended the organizers and the participants and called on them to continue to promote the acquisition of the knowledge of the Quran.
In a lecture titled ‘The Importance of Security and Peace: Quranic Perspective’, Abdulkadir Saleh Kazaure, said peace was significant in achieving meaningful development in any society and described the Holy Quran as the panacea for all societal problems.
Kazaure urged Muslims and indeed all citizens to ensure strict adherence to the injunction of Allah to achieve national peace and development and prayed Allah to restore lasting peace in Zamfara State and Nigeria as a whole.
The Chief Imam of Abdullahi Fodio Juma’at Mosque, Gusau, Malam Ahmad Umar Kanoma, the discussion of such issues as peace and security was important for Zamfara State at this period and called for further and more extensive discussions in that regard.
The Emir of Maru, Alhaji Abubakar Gado Maigari, attributed contemporary societal problems to the negligence of the teachings of the Holy Book and called on Nigerians to have a change of attitude.
The Quran recitation competition in the state was organized in collaboration with the Sheikh Jafar Mahmud Adam Foundation.
Source: tribuneonlineng.com
