From KABIRU YUSUF, Abuja

Abubakar stated this yesterday in Abuja when he granted audience to members of the Board of Trustees of the Islamic Schools and Teachers Council of Nigeria (ISTECON) led by its national president and coordinator general, Sheikh al-Bashir Salihi Sulaiman.
He advised the council to register all Islamiyya schools in the country, saying, ‘’it is very important for a uniform and unique system to be put in place especially affiliating such schools to the existing universities,’’ he added.
The vice president then asked the scholars to consider the task as gigantic, and assured them of his support and commitment to the council, commending them for the visit.
The national president of the council, Sheikh Al-Bashir Salihi Sulaiman, had earlier told the vice president that they were in the State House to communicate to the vice president the resolution of the board of trustees to confer on him, the most distinguished special national merit award for his tremendous contributions to the development of Islam.
Sheikh Sulaiman informed the vice president that a committee of about 27 members have already produced a harmonized syllabus for use in all Islamiyya schools in the country with the Islamic Schools and Teachers Council of Nigeria having the Sultan of Sokoto as the National Grand Patron.