Don’t fix programmes during Jummah prayer period – MURIC tells UNIJOS

Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has advised the absorption of University of Jos to halt fixing programmes during the play of Jummah supplication connected Fridays.

MURIC made the proposition successful a connection signed by its Executive Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, connected Monday.

Akintola noted that the Department of Pharmacy, Jos University Teaching Hospital, JUTH, allegedly slated a lecture connected Lassa fever for Friday, 26th June, 2026 betwixt 12 – 2 pm.

He declared the timing of the lecture arsenic provocative and illegal, adding that it is simply a stumbling artifact successful the way to peaceful coexistence.

Akintola maintained that the instauration should reappraisal the programme to guarantee that the Jumu’ah play is neither encroached upon nor sandwiched.

Akintola said, “An interior memo allegedly emanating from the Department of Pharmacy, Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH), has reportedly slated a lecture connected Lassa fever for Friday, 26th June, 2026 by 12 – 2 pm. The memo was signed by Sitlong Goodness connected behalf of the president of the Medical Advisory Committee (MAC).
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“We of the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) respect the timing of the projected lecture arsenic an over-reach. Holding a programme successful authoritative capableness during Jumu’ah supplication anyplace successful Nigeria is an workout successful i...