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The Islamic Movement of Nigeria (Arabic: الحركة الاسلامية في نيجيريا) is a banned Shia religious organization which aims to establish an Islamic state in Nigeria. It was founded by Ibrahim Zakzaky , who was inspired by the Iranian Revolution and rejects the authority of the Nigerian Government. [ 3 ]
In April 2012, Falguni Nayar, a former managing director at Kotak Mahindra Capital Company, founded Nykaa [7] as an ecommerce portal curating a range of beauty and wellness products. [8] [9] The brand name Nykaa is derived from the Sanskrit word nayaka, meaning actress or "one in the spotlight". [10]
In April 2012, at the age of 50, [14] she founded Nykaa with $2 million of her own money. [15] Nykaa was worth $2.3 billion as of 2021 bringing Nayar's net worth to an estimated $1.1 billion. Nayar is one of two self-made female Indian billionaires, the other being Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw. [16] Nykaa listed at $13 billion valuation on 10 November 2021.
Ibraheem Zakzaky is the primary figure and spiritual leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (formerly: Muslim Brothers [11]), Africa's most prominent Shi'a Muslim movement. Of Nigeria's 180 million population, around 50 percent are Muslim, a small minority of which belong to Shi'a Islam .
Sheikh Isma'ila Idris (1937–2000), also known as Me Izala, was a Nigerian Islamic scholar, teacher, and former military officer. He was the founder and inaugural chairman of the Izala Society (officially Jama'atu Izalatil Bid'ah Wa Iqamatus Sunnah), an organization aimed at promoting Islamic reform and countering what it viewed as un-Islamic innovations in practice.
Islam is one of the two largest religions in Nigeria. Nigeria also has the largest Muslim population in Africa. [1] In 2018, the CIA World Factbook estimated that 53.5% of Nigeria's population is Muslim. [2] Islam is predominantly concentrated in the northern half of the country, with a significant Muslim minority existing in the southern ...
The Ahmadiyya movement established itself in Nigeria in 1916, [54] [55] and make up approximately 3% of the Muslim population. [56] There are numerous Ahmadiyya centres in Nigeria including the Baitur-Raheem Mosque in Ibadan inaugurated in 2008, [ 57 ] the Mubarak Mosque in Abuja, which is the last Ahmadiyya mosque, built in the first century ...
In 1933, the Lagos Youth Movement - later the Nigerian Youth Movement - was founded [148] and took a more strident stance in favour of independence than the NNDP. In 1938, the NYM called for Nigeria to be granted British Dominion status, putting it on a par with Australia or Canada . [ 124 ]