Shetty, Dangote’s Mother Close Quranic Recitation Competition In Kano

A one-time ministerial nominee nether the President Bola Tinubu’s administration, Maryam Shetty and Mariya Sanusi Bayero, Kano Princess and parent of Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, person closed a Quranic Recitation Competition successful Kano with a supplication for bid crossed the nation.

The competition, the archetypal of its kind, was conducted connected Shetty’s Facebook Platform, wherever thousands of competitors posted videos of themselves reciting the Quran, aft which a screening committee made up of experts from the National Quranic Recitation Competition Committee screened the participants and came up with the winners.

Speaking connected wherefore she organised the competition, the erstwhile ministerial nominee explained that it is an effort to alteration the societal media platforms into places of faith, quality and reflection alternatively of spaces of frivolity.

“We unrecorded successful an property wherever integer platforms often amplify noise, discord and distractions. But alternatively than wantonness these spaces, I asked myself, wherefore not reclaim them? Why not alteration TikTok and Instagram from playgrounds of frivolities into platforms of faith, quality and reflection?

“#ReciteWithShetty became that answer. It was ne'er conscionable astir competition; it was astir rekindling emotion for the Qur’an, giving our youths a noble intent successful their online engagements and reminding them that their voices tin beryllium instruments of airy successful a integer satellite often clouded with shadows.

“What began arsenic a humble inaugural has grown into a question that has captured the imaginativeness of our younker crossed Northern Nigeria and beyond. The melodious recitations, heartfelt reflections and contagious zeal displayed by participants rapidly dispersed similar wildfire,” she stated.

She expressed gratitude to spiritual leaders, erstwhile heads of authorities and accepted rulers who recognised it arsenic a beacon of motivation reawakening arsenic good arsenic affirming taste practice and spiritual legacy.

Speaking connected the competition, the parent of the richest African, Hajiya Mariya Sanusi, hailed the efforts of Shetty and called connected youths to usage their opportunities and learn, portion praying for bid successful the country.

The wide victor of the competition, Nuraddeen Mu’azu from Abuja, who won with 97.6 points, took location a whopping N1 million.

Muhammad Khalid Idris from Bauchi, who came 2nd with 97.4 points, got N500,000 portion Aisha Tahir Idris from Jigawa came 3rd with 97 points, winning N250,000.

Shetty besides said that she and her squad are already embarking connected strategies to grow the initiative, which has been accepted, and marque it a beingness task that volition uplift humanity supra the minimum benchmark for an perfect idiosyncratic and a bully life.