Nigerian professors accuse university of excluding Muslims
of excluding Muslims from decision making on key issues by fixing meetings and other academic and administrative engagements at hours dedicated to Friday prayer .
The dons said the tradition since the tenure of a former vice-chancellor, A.B Odediran, was that the hours of 12 noon to 3 p.m should be free of any statutory academic and administrative activities on the campus.They said this tradition was backed by a university’s special release of August 23, 2010, they claimed banned lectures, meetings, and other statutory engagements.
“We use this medium to appeal to Mr Vice-Chancellor to address this matter with the urgency it deserves to avert further harm to members of the University of Ibadan Muslim community, considering his handling of numerous correspondences to management to allow Muslim pupils in the International School of the University of Ibadan to use hijab that has been allowed to degenerate into unwanted litigation, harassment and oppression of young Muslim pupils, and infringements on their fundamental human...
In his response to the group, a copy of which was made available to our reporter, Mr Olayinka promised to look into the issues for appropriate action.
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