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Governors, Emirs storm Dutse
Newsdiaryonline Fri Feb 18,2011
All roads
lead to Dutse, Jigawa State,
tomorrow, Saturday, (February 19th, 2011 which is
equivalent to 16th Rabiwul auwal 1432) where eight
governors and 22 emirs across the country will be participating
in the closing ceremony of the 25th National Qu’ranic
Recitation Competition. The governors are those of Sokoto, Osun,
Kogi, Zamfara, Kano
and Kebbi. Others are those of Gombe who will perform the
closing ceremony and the host, Sule Lamido of
Jigawa
State. The Vice President,
Architect Namadi Sambo will also be in attendance at the closing
of the week long competition which opened in Dutse last Friday,
February 11th and in which Twenty Six states are
participating.
A
statement from the Chairman of the Local Organizing Committee
for the competition and who is also the state’s Commissioner for
Education, Science and Technology, Professor Haruna Wakili said
the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar 111 will be leading twenty
two emirs and Islamic scholars to the closing ceremony also,
among them the Lamido of Adamawa, the Emir of Zaria, Ilorin and
the Etsu Nupe. Twelve emirs led by the Shehu of Borno were at
the opening ceremony.
Apart
from the distribution of prizes, there will be a lecture by
Professor Shehu Galadanchi, a former Nigerian ambassador to the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the current Chairman of the National
Universities Commission, (NUC) as well as the pioneer
Vice-Chancellor of the Usmanu Dan Fodio University, (UDU) whose
Centre for Islamic Studies is the originator and intellectual
force behind the National Qu’ranic Recitation Competition which
has entered its 26th year.
Jigawa
State’s
application to host the competition was approved in March 2010,
months after the application was made at the 23rd
competition at Auchi, Edo
State.
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