Arabic Institute, Markaz Agege Gets Approval For Legal Studies

Lagos based Arabic and Islamic training centre,Markaz Agege, has gotten approval National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) to commence studies of law.

Blaze Newz gathered that the law programs are National Diploma in Combined Law and Common Law.

Nurudeen Ibrahim, Spokesperson on Special Matters to the Director of Markaz Agege, Sheikh Habibullah Adam El-Ilory, made this known on Friday.

According to Sheikh Habibullah spokesperson: “The NBTE has granted Markaz an approval to commence National Diploma in Combined Law and Common Law. This came after the successful resource verification by a team of National Board for Technical Education to ensure that Markaz has the necessary resources and capacity to run the two programmes.

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“The resource verification also included inspection of the school resource library, the classrooms, the offices, the clinic, the Moot Court, the Digital Technology and Language Laboratory as well as the Information Communication and Technology Centre, Conference Room, Seminal Hall, Indoor Sports Halls, School Hostel and others.”

Quoting Sheikh Habibulahi on the new achievement,the spokesperson said:””the vision of Sheikh Adam Abdullah El-Ilory was to advance educational standard and level as well as promoting the understanding of Islam by all necessary means. Since the Qur’an is the first primary source of Islamic Law, it is good for us to incorporate Islamic Legal Studies in order to promote the understanding of Islam, the Qur’an and to give support to humanity.”

Ibrahim explained that admission for the two programmes will only be through UTME of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board with relevant O’level result (WAEC, NECO, GCE, NBAIS).

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He enjoined students of Markaz and other Muslims from different Arabic and Islamic schools to embrace the opportunity to proceed for Legal Studies at Markaz where they can obtain ND in Sharia and Common Law (Combined Law) and ND in Common Law.