{"id":60086,"date":"2025-01-28T15:14:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T15:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60086"},"modified":"2025-01-28T15:14:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T15:14:31","slug":"sultanate-council-calls-for-shaaban-moon-sighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/28\/sultanate-council-calls-for-shaaban-moon-sighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Sultanate Council Calls for Sha\u2019aban Moon Sighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Sultanate Council of Sokoto has urged Muslims to watch for the crescent moon marking the start of Sha\u2019aban 1446 AH on Wednesday, 29th of Rajab 1446 AH.<br \/>\nIn a statement by Prof. Sambo Junaidu, Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Religious Affairs, sightings should be reported to local leaders for onward communication to the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa\u2019ad Abubakar, for confirmation.<br \/>\nSha\u2019aban, the precursor to Ramadan, is a significant period of spiritual preparation for Muslims worldwide.<br \/>\nThe council concluded with prayers for divine guidance in fulfilling this religious duty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo The Sultanate Council of Sokoto has urged Muslims to watch for the crescent moon marking the start of Sha\u2019aban 1446 AH on Wednesday, 29th of Rajab 1446 AH. In a statement by Prof. Sambo Junaidu, Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Religious Affairs, sightings should be reported to local leaders for onward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":60087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60088,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60086\/revisions\/60088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}