{"id":27167,"date":"2016-07-24T05:47:02","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T05:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/nigeria-lifts-headscarf-ban-in-lagos-schools\/"},"modified":"2016-07-24T05:44:21","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T05:44:21","slug":"nigeria-lifts-headscarf-ban-in-lagos-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/nigeria-lifts-headscarf-ban-in-lagos-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria lifts headscarf ban in Lagos schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Nigerian groups welcome court ruling that lifts ban on girls wearing the headscarf in government schools in Lagos state.}<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian Muslims have welcomed a court ruling allowing girls to wear headscarves in government schools in Lagos state, hailing the decision as a victory for the rule of law.<\/p>\n<p>The Muslim Rights Concern group (MURIC) said the Court of Appeal&#8217;s decision, which overturned a years-long ban preventing girls from wearing the garment, had &#8220;restored hope in the judiciary&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fact that the judgment was unanimous and only two of the five judges are Muslims leaves a firm stamp of authority on the legality of the use of hijab not only by female Muslim students but also by all Muslim women in the country,&#8221; MURIC said.<\/p>\n<p>Alhaji Abubakar, the president-general of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, also applauded the decision. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Muslims are not forcing any one to use the hijab (headscarf)&#8230; but whoever wants to use hijab must be allowed to use hijab,&#8221; Nigerian website Today quoted Abubakar as saying on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria has a roughly equal Christian-Muslim mix and more than 200 ethnic groups live side by side in the West African country.<\/p>\n<p>Though generally peaceful, Nigeria has seen periodic bouts of violence since armed group Boko Haram launched a campaign in the northeast of the country.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-13746 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/a522b86389414227a7f12cd2abd552db_18.jpg\" alt=\"The Muslim Rights Concern group said the lifting of the ban had &quot;restored hope in the judiciary&quot;\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Nigerian groups welcome court ruling that lifts ban on girls wearing the headscarf in government schools in Lagos state.} Nigerian Muslims have welcomed a court ruling allowing girls to wear headscarves in government schools in Lagos state, hailing the decision as a victory for the rule of law. The Muslim Rights Concern group (MURIC) said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[2474],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-27167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-al-jazeera"],"bylines":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27167"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=27167"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=27167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}