Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr Kadri Obafemi Hamzat, has enjoined Nigerians, irrespective of sophistication, tribe, or faith, to shun greed and preserve integrity in all sectors for the nation to expertise the expansion and growth everybody hopes for.
The deputy governor made the decision on Saturday on the Opening Ceremony of the thirty sixth Triennial Nationwide Convention of the Muslim Affiliation of Nigeria (MAN), themed “Nigeria and the Prospects of Socio-Financial Stability,” held on the headquarters of the affiliation in Surulere, Lagos.
Hamzat, whereas noting that love for one’s nation was key, urged Nigerians to make sure that for his or her nation and additional urged all sectors of the residents to keep up integrity and shun greed.
“The love of our nation is essential. We should love our nation, and all sectors should preserve integrity; we should all lower greed,” he stated.
Talking additional, Dr Hamzat charged Muslim clergy and different non secular leaders within the nation to at all times base their teachings on values and subjects that provide options to up to date points as a way to convey in regards to the vital social adjustments wanted for the expansion and growth of the nation.
He stated that they need to at all times use faith to evangelise peace and convey individuals collectively for the upliftment of the nation, slightly than utilizing it to convey disunity amongst residents of the nation.
The deputy governor, whereas stressing the significance of the household unit within the total growth of the nation, stated that nothing can result in growth when the household unit is damaged.
He, due to this fact, admonished mother and father to take excellent care of their youngsters and practice them to know the essence of life and shun social vices, saying that they need to at all times know that onerous work pays.
In addition to, he additionally urged them to make sure that the household unit takes its rightful place in society as of previous, the place everybody knew his or her duty and successfully discharged it, including that folks should educate their youngsters their languages, morals, and values as, in accordance with him, shedding the values will quantity to shedding ourselves.
“If we lose our values, we’ll lose ourselves,” he warned.
Talking on the theme of the convention, “Nigeria and the Prospects of Socio-Financial Stability,” the Visitor Lecturer, Dr. Saheed Timehin of the Division of Overseas Languages, Lagos State College (LASU), Ojo pressured the necessity for a brand new socio-economic ideology to satisfy the difficult order within the nation.
The visitor lecturer famous that the foremost drawback of the nation is worth change, saying this was the rationale many instances when the federal government made a coverage, it was troublesome to narrate to such coverage as a result of individuals’s attitudes, in precise reality, weren’t what they must be.
“If one appears to be like on the interjectivity of what has occurred since independence, one will notice that Nigeria actually wants a change within the perspective of the citizenry.
“That is the rationale many instances when the federal government makes a coverage, it’s troublesome to narrate to such coverage as a result of, in precise info, our attitudes are usually not what they need to be,” he stated.
This was simply as Dr Timehin famous that there was one thing elementary that had modified in the way in which Nigerians now educated their youngsters, saying sadly that materials achieve was now celebrated over good character and values.
Dr. Timehin due to this fact emphasised the necessity for Nigeria as a nation to vary the way in which the residents practice their “youngsters who’re leaders of tomorrow, as it is extremely essential that we practice generations that worth exhausting work and know that Allah ties success, progress, and prosperity to exhausting work and never by shortcuts or cash rituals.”
The Visitor Lecturer, whereas charging Muslims to be acutely aware of their deeds as everybody would give an account of all they did each on earth and thereafter, enjoined them to at all times compete with what was good and never evil.
President, Muslim Affiliation of Nigeria (MAN), Alhaji Tajudeen Olajide Ojikutu, stated in his welcome tackle that the affiliation was established to, amongst different issues, cater for the religious, ethical, and socioeconomic wants of Muslim Ummah, cooperate with different Muslim organisations for the propagation of Islamic religion, and promote schooling and scholarship among the many generality of Muslims.
Ojikutu added that to maintain the acknowledged targets, the affiliation had launched into correct branding to make it related, vibrant, and development-oriented locally of Islamic associations.
Based on him, the affiliation has ensured the location of schooling on the entrance burner by way of the formation of a nationwide schooling board in addition to the enhancement and steady sustenance of the laid-out design of the affiliation’s developmental course of.
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