Sultan Declares Tuesday as 1st Rabi’ul Awwal 1436AH

By Abdallah el-Kurebe

Sultan Saad Abubakar has declared Tuesday, December 2014 as the first day of the Islamic month of Rabi’ul Awwal 2014.

A statement with reference No. SCS/058/Vol.XIXIXX dated December 23, 2014, signed and issued by the Secretary of the Sokoto Sultanate Council, Attahiru Hussaini said that the Sultan had declared Tuesday, 23 December 2014 as the first day of the Islamic month of Rabi’ul Awwal.

According to the statement, “I am directed by His Eminence, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, CFR, mni, the Sultan of Sokoto to inform the general public that, His Eminence has accordingly declared Tuesday, 23th December 2014, as the first day of Rabi’ul Awwal 1436AH.”