Metro Shekau Ranked Among Most Powerful Muslims Again

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Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau has again been listed among the most powerful Muslims in the world. Shekau was ranked with President Muhammadu Buhari, the Sultan of Sokoto, Abubakar Saad and others in the 2018 edition.


This is contained in a Muslim publication, "The Muslim 500" in its latest edition.


Punch reports that the publication according to a statement obtained noted that there were approximately 1.84 billion Muslims in the world, making up 24.38 per cent of the world’s population.

Last year, the trio also made the list of most influential Muslims in the world.

The publication is an annual compilation of the good, the bad, and the ugly in the Islamic world.

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 had carried out a number of atrocities.

The publication added that Shekau speaks Hausa, Arabic, and English and claimed to have undergone theological training.

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
 

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