{"id":7860,"date":"2024-06-18T16:11:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T16:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=7860"},"modified":"2024-06-18T16:33:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T16:33:36","slug":"mica-distribute-food-items-cows-rams-clothes-to-muslims-across-nigeria-to-mark-eid-festivities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2024\/06\/18\/mica-distribute-food-items-cows-rams-clothes-to-muslims-across-nigeria-to-mark-eid-festivities\/","title":{"rendered":"MICA Distribute Food Items, Cows, Rams, Clothes to Muslims across Nigeria to mark Eid Festivities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of the Eid celebrations, an Islamic group, the Movement for Islamic Centre and Awareness, MICA has distributed food itmes, cows, sallah rams and clothes to Muslims in some parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7865 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/98932622-eb61-4e89-9afa-5cc117a198fa-1-174x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/98932622-eb61-4e89-9afa-5cc117a198fa-1-174x300.jpeg 174w, https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/98932622-eb61-4e89-9afa-5cc117a198fa-1.jpeg 482w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some of the states where the items were distributed to hundreds of beneficiaries include; Lagos, Ogun, Kwara, Kaduna, and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The Project Director, Azeezat Mohammed in a statement said that MICA continues to play a significant role in supporting the community across all her chapters through charitable activities, demonstrating the values of compassion and generosity inherent in Islamic teachings.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7866 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2e6ed6b6-2a9a-4a82-a52a-7c1ff80ff8fa-131x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"131\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2e6ed6b6-2a9a-4a82-a52a-7c1ff80ff8fa-131x300.jpeg 131w, https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2e6ed6b6-2a9a-4a82-a52a-7c1ff80ff8fa-449x1024.jpeg 449w, https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2e6ed6b6-2a9a-4a82-a52a-7c1ff80ff8fa.jpeg 561w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 131px) 100vw, 131px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She explained that the project became necessary in view of the current economic situation in the country in ensuring that Nigerians celebrate Eid festivities in joyous mood.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, MICA established exactly three decades ago had played a pivotal role in spreading Islam especially among the youth, adults and strengthening the spirit of brotherhood among the adherents.<\/p>\n<p>She also thanked all those who contributed towards the success of the programme.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7867 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/cf8b77d7-aca0-4e06-aa28-6113bbe0a998-131x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"131\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/cf8b77d7-aca0-4e06-aa28-6113bbe0a998-131x300.jpeg 131w, https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/cf8b77d7-aca0-4e06-aa28-6113bbe0a998-449x1024.jpeg 449w, https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/cf8b77d7-aca0-4e06-aa28-6113bbe0a998.jpeg 561w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 131px) 100vw, 131px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On his part, the Amir of MICA, Justice Wale Abiru thanked Allah for the peaceful coexistence in the country and congratulated Muslims for witnessing another sallah celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>He however urged Nigerians to think more of contributing their quota to nation building.<\/p>\n<p>It was a turning point in the lives of Muslim Ummah in Ilorin; Lugbe in Abuja; Kaduna; Alimosho, Mile 12, Amukoko in Lagos and Green Peace in Ogun state when the food items, cows, rams and clothes were distributed to the less privileged including students.<\/p>\n<p>In all, items distributed to alleviate the pains felt by the people at the moment in the country included 8 cows and 5 rams.<\/p>\n<p>The beneficiaries of the items thanked the leadership of MICA for considering them worthy of being part of the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of the Eid celebrations, an Islamic group, the Movement for Islamic Centre and Awareness, MICA has distributed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-grassroots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7868,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7860\/revisions\/7868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}