- President Muhammadu Buhari; the Sultan of Sokoto, Abubakar Saad; and Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, have been listed among the most powerful Muslims in the world.
This was contained in a Muslim publication, The Muslim 500, an annual compilation of the good, the bad, and the ugly in the Islamic world, in its 2018 edition.
The publication also revealed that there were approximately 1.84 billion Muslims in the world, making up 24.38 per cent of the world’s population.
Buhari and the Sultan were ranked 19th and 23th, respectively among the first top 50 Muslims in the world.
It explained that Shekau, the head of Boko Haram, a terrorist group in Nigeria who speaks Hausa, Arabic, and English and claimed to have undergone theological training, had carried out a number of atrocities in the name of Islam.
Others Nigerians listed in the publication are Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote; JAMB registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede and former justice minister, Prince Bola Ajibola.
