Controversy for the use of wheel in some universities in Nigeria: “The way they force me to dress up are not equal to Islamic values” | The future planet
Nigeria Musia Tanmis, 18, left the dream of becoming a physical education teacher when she knew it It is not allowed to wear a wheel In classes that are teaching in the faculty group of Osun state education, which is affiliated with the Akity State University in Nigeria. As a devotee Muslims, he did not want to give up his religion instead of this profession and abandoned the idea of studying. “They told me that they did not allow Muslim women to take Nikab During weekly physical training, ”explains the tonmis. In exercises, in addition, this is necessary Nikab. This is not comfortable for me, ”he finally explained the student who chose biology. In that section, the dressing path is not a barrier.
Use Nikab And some other types of wheel in the campus of some Nigerian university. The debate was dated eighties due to the use of wheel and, especially in educational environments, disputes between students and educational centers have been recorded for more than a decade, Count made Islamic Welfare Foundation. The 2020 study published by the Center for Muslim Public Affairs (MPAC) of Nigeria, Estimated 87.6% of Muslim women used by Hiyab and Nikab They face harassment, harassment and discrimination and 41.3% of these cases occur in educational centers.
Last December, Muslim Rights Anxiety (Murik), Islamic Human Rights Organization, He condemned the oppression of Muslim nursing students among Nigerian Medicine faculty due to their clothing. The same happened in the case of Adam Hikimote, who wanted to study nursing at Prince Abu Bakr Audu University in Kogi state. In August 2023, the Nikab And he went out to attend the university’s entrance exams. Upon arrival at the examination center, one of the selected officers suddenly asked him to take his mask in the presence of other people before entering the exam room. “I am ashamed of the sea of the candidates in the middle of the sea. It smiled at me and smiled at me,” Hikimot recalled.
Finally, he did not study nursing, but biochemistry. Allows students to use your university Nikab Oh Hiyab Classes should be attended as nursing, except for health. However, he stopped using the hikimote with the third year Nikab After entering, to avoid, as he says, “feel more shameful.” The newspaper failed to gather their reform that caused the public relations of the prescribed universities.
Freedom of expression
But there are more cases. On November 26, 2021, the Federal University of Abokuta in Ogun State, He was issued Internal memorandum forbidden to use Nikab In its facilities. It condemns the entry of Muslim students who used to deal with the harassment and aggression of teachers, security personnel and school drivers. “We, Muslim students and other human rights organizations have protested, finally provided the direction,” said Habibula Adekunley, former president of the university’s Student Union (SUG).
“The clothing that appears today has been sincerely stable among nursing students,” said Dr Abubakar Mahmood, a federal teaching hospital in the state of Cabbie. “The problem I see is to oppose that Muslim students are carrying Hiyab Mahmood adds to them to create “more Muslim universities and organizations” that allows women to wear their clothes as an alternative.
Adenyee Jamie, a Lake Graduate, Lake Shitu & Co, recalled that the Constitution recognized freedom of expression. “Dressing path is part of freedom of expression and it is found in Article 39 of the 1999 Constitution. Articles 38 and 39 are usually based on the courts to solve similar problems,” he told this newspaper.
