Group inaugurates NGO

A non-governmental organisation, Glorious Islamic Centre, was on Sunday inaugurated in Lagos.

The President of the group, Mr. Akin Laguda, said one of the aims of the group was to educate Muslims and non-Muslims alike in the light of Islam and to promote education and scholarship through study, symposia, debates, conferences, film-strips, reference libraries and other lawful means among others.

Also speaking on the occasion, a don, Prof. Daud Noibi, said a mosque should not be a worship centre alone but a learning centre that should be opened at all times.

Noibi, who was represented by a veteran journalist, Alhaji Femi Abass, recalled that some of the oldest universities in the world started as learning centres before they metamorphosed into universities.

Noibi, who listed the universities as Al-Azhar, Cordova, Qarawiyyin and Al-Zaytoonah, said they started as learning centres, adding that it was in order for the group to first start as a centre and later think of how to improve.

He said, “Mosques should not be for prayers alone. They should be learning centres. A mosque should have a library, clinic, conference centre, computer room and it must be opened at all times. These are the things that can help our children.

“That is why I am very happy when I read about the things they want to be doing at the centre. These are similar with the things they were doing at the centres that later became universities.”
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