This article is designed to make readers conclude that this is a good thing, that it will help Nigerians avoid falling into the “misconceptions” about Islam held by Boko Haram, the Islamic State in West Africa. However, since what the Islamic State in West Africa does is based scrupulously upon clear teachings of the Qur’an and Sunnah, the introduction of Arabic will not curb its activities, but serve as a recruiting tool for the group.
“Kano to Introduce Arabic Into Schools’ Curricula to Aid Understanding of Islam,” Nigerian Bulletin, February 23, 2016:
SIMON ATEBA reports that the state governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje disclosed this on Sunday during a reception organized by Manarul Hudah Islamiyya, Kano in honour of Umar Sani Fagge, a lecturer with Bayero University, Kano, who recently bagged Doctorate Degree from the university.
He explained that Saudi Arabia has pledged to support the government of Kano state to achieve the objectives of Arabic the language introduction, pointing out that learning the language would not only facilitate religious scholarship but also commerce.

sidney penny says
Learning the Arabic language will not facilitate religious scholarship.
Millions of Muslim in Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Pakistan have a religious scholarship in other languages other than Arabic.
Angemon says
That should be setting off alarm bells, not warranting support.
JawsV says
About vile Islam the world has gone nuts. I don’t understand it. Did people initially support and defend Fascism and Nazism, too?
mortimer says
Improving the teaching of English and French will improve ‘commerce’ in the western Africa region more than studying Arabic.
Koranic Arabic is a different language from the vernacular Arabic dialects.
maghan says
Alienated ignoramuses don’t even know that they are being subjugated under the heel of Arab cultural imperialism.
What does a degenerate Arab bandit whose calling card has been murder,rape, plunder and theft have to do with Africa. Only dumb unthinking fools could ever fall for such Arab stupidity.
Huck Folder says
They have ABDicated
their manhood and future.
Or, at least, their ‘leaders’ have.
And what studies will they drop,
in favor of this madness?
mortimer says
Jaws wrote: “Did people initially support and defend Fascism and Nazism, too?”
Many Europeans who supported fascism soon lived to regret it. All the national economy was focussed on war, food was severely rationed, wages went DOWN, and finally their homes, workplaces and entire countries were blown apart.
They all denied they had voted for Hitler or Mussolini.
duh+swami says
A Quran only Muslim told me that the English translation was incomplete and misleading due to many translation errors, and only Arabic translations were valid…I asked him what Quran 5:33 meant in Arabic and he didn’t answer…I asked him what I should do with this book of lies,,,He said I should take it to the nearest mosque and give it to the Imam…
mortimer says
Koran-only Muslims have the violence in the Koran that doesn’t go away, no matter how it is translated.
They are ignoring it and hoping it will go away. It won’t. K.5.33 is one of the most viciously violent passages in the Koran.
Koran-only Muslims practice ‘cafeteria Islam’ and pick and choose whatever it is in Islam that they like while discounting what is not to their taste. ‘Taste’ is not the right approach to something that is the ACTUAL WORDS OF GOD. Such a text is authoritative and must be followed slavishly, if at all.
There is no half-measure with the Koran. The errors and incoherence in the Koran prove beyond a reasonable doubt that it is not the dictation of the Deity. Studying Arabic does not help much to know the Koran, because there are about 30 English translations of it that give almost all possible meanings of the words.
Westman says
Yes, Arabic, a language that could be similar to a language from another galaxy, will become the main language of Earth’s science, technology, medicine and commerce, and will undoubtedly raise Kano, Nigeria to 1st world status. If you believe that you probably speak Arabic.
It is oil that props up Nigeria, not Islam and Arabic. In 50 years oil will not be primary source of mobility and the energy spent on Arabic will contribute to economic contraction. At least, they can be slaves in Allah’s native language.