{"id":164002,"date":"2025-05-24T22:46:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T21:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/sultan-abubakar-endorses-tinubus-religious-tolerance-promotion-for-nigerians"},"modified":"2025-05-24T23:56:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T22:56:31","slug":"sultan-abubakar-endorses-tinubus-religious-tolerance-promotion-for-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sultan-abubakar-endorses-tinubus-religious-tolerance-promotion-for-nigerians","title":{"rendered":"Sultan Abubakar endorses Tinubu\u2019s religious tolerance, promotion for Nigerians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammed Sa\u2019ad Abubakar III, has endorsed President Bola Tinubu\u2019s religious promotion and tolerance in Nigeria, saying the move was responsible for the economic gains recorded across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Sultan made the endorsement on Saturday at the commissioning the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Darul\u2019Ilm Centre for Islamic Studies in Kaduna built and donated by the Director General of the Department of State Services, DSS, Mr Tosin Ajayi for orphans and the less-priviledge<\/p>\n<p>The Sultan, who urged Nigerians to de- emphasize religous and ethnic differences, said it was the ability of other economically successful countries to overcome these differences, that led to their greatness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe coming together of people of different faiths and ethnicities will help bridge the gaps of disunity and de-emphasize the problems of this country. The prescence of heads of sister security agencies here today shows the synergy amongst our security services and the trust they have in Tosin Ajayi,\u201d observed the Sultan.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking, the DSS boss, who was represented by a retired director of the Service, Ahmed Zalmar, said the law setting up the DSS, empowers the secret police to prevent five major threats to internal security, including espionage, insurgency, sabotage, subversion and terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>As a trained security officer, said the DSS boss, he identified reducing discontent in the populace as a powerful coubter-subversion strategy. He said he identified education as a key method of dousing discontent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is also part of my policies to improve the nation\u2019s internal security architecture through conventional and non-conventional engagements,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have always channeled parts of Corporate Social Responsibilities and other financial support from stakeholders for such purposes,\u201d he said<\/p>\n<p>Also speaking at the event, Minister of Finance, Mr Wale Edun, who was accompanied by his Budget and Economic Planning, Atiku Bagudu, emphasised the importance of education to Nigeria\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p>He praised President Tinubu\u2019s support for faith-based education initiatives and school feeding programmes.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said, \u201cBy 2050, 25 per cent of the global workforce will be African, with many from Nigeria,\u201d stressing that, in spite of challenges, progress was evident in economic growth, increasing foreign reserves, stabilising inflation, and decreasing food and energy prices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammed Sa\u2019ad Abubakar III, has endorsed President Bola Tinubu\u2019s religious promotion and tolerance in Nigeria, saying the move was responsible for the economic gains recorded across the country. The Sultan made the endorsement on Saturday at the commissioning the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Darul\u2019Ilm Centre for Islamic Studies in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":164000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254,17427,945],"class_list":["post-164002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-nigeria","tag-sultan-abubakar","tag-tinubu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sultan Abubakar endorses Tinubu\u2019s religious tolerance, promotion for Nigerians - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammed Sa\u2019ad Abubakar III, has endorsed President Bola Tinubu\u2019s religious promotion and toleranc ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sultan-abubakar-endorses-tinubus-religious-tolerance-promotion-for-nigerians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sultan Abubakar endorses Tinubu\u2019s religious tolerance, promotion for Nigerians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammed Sa\u2019ad Abubakar III, has endorsed President Bola Tinubu\u2019s religious promotion and toleranc ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sultan-abubakar-endorses-tinubus-religious-tolerance-promotion-for-nigerians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-05-24T21:46:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-24T22:56:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1748114821.198696.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1320\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"774\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sultan-abubakar-endorses-tinubus-religious-tolerance-promotion-for-nigerians#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sultan-abubakar-endorses-tinubus-religious-tolerance-promotion-for-nigerians\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Sultan Abubakar endorses Tinubu\u2019s religious tolerance, promotion for Nigerians\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-24T21:46:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-24T22:56:31+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sultan-abubakar-endorses-tinubus-religious-tolerance-promotion-for-nigerians\"},\"wordCount\":385,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sultan-abubakar-endorses-tinubus-religious-tolerance-promotion-for-nigerians#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1748114821.198696.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\",\"Sultan Abubakar\",\"Tinubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sultan-abubakar-endorses-tinubus-religious-tolerance-promotion-for-nigerians#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sultan-abubakar-endorses-tinubus-religious-tolerance-promotion-for-nigerians\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sultan-abubakar-endorses-tinubus-religious-tolerance-promotion-for-nigerians\",\"name\":\"Sultan Abubakar endorses Tinubu\u2019s religious tolerance, promotion for Nigerians - 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