31.08.2011 - Islamic banking: How suitable for Nigeria?
The controversy surrounding the issue of Islamic banking has raged for quite some time. Many Nigerians do not understand the need for this form of banking and the reasons for the controversy. Some even thought it is a fanatic pet project of the Central Bank Governor, whose fundamentalism in Islam is believed to have engineered it in the first instance. For a nation passing through the BokoHaram crisis, with the group’s insistence on the Sharia law as the legal code and Islam as the official religion, the timing for introduction of Islamic banking is to say the obvious wrong and distabilising..............................................Full Article: Source
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