CITIZENS COMPASS—The Sultan of Sokoto and President General of the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), His Eminence Alhaji Muhammad Saad Abubakar, CFR, mni, has joined other Muslim World Leaders at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies in Oxford, England, for a two-day meeting.
The meeting also marked the 40th anniversary of the Centre’s establishment.
The two-day event, which included an Annual General Meeting of the Centre’s Board of Trustees, had it’s opening ceremony attended on Thursday July 19, 2025 by the Centre’s Grand Patron, King Charles III in a well attended ceremony which included former President of Turkey Abdullah Gul, Saudi Prince Turki Al Faisal and Sultan Nazrin San all of whom, along Sultan Sa’ad Abubakar, members of the Board of Trustees of the Centre.
The Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies has among its cardinal objectives the goal of promoting interfaith dialogue, inter-civilizational understanding, Islamic finance, environment issues, fellowships, scholarship and the growth of Muslim youths in Britain.
In his remarks at the international event, Sultan Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar enjoined “citizens of the world in general and Africa in particular to embrace peace and dialogue all the times for us to engender social harmony and peaceful co-existence as our guiding principle since Islam remains a religion of peace”.
The Sultan was accompanied on the trip to England by Sarkin Fada Sokoto, Alhaji Kabir Tafida and former Nigeria’s National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), and Kongunan Sokoto, Dr. Danladi Bako.
