Amasa Firdaus, the Nigerian Law School graduate who was refused her call to the bar for failing to remove her hijab, has said that her defiance was to challenge the status quo, and her demand remains the need to approve the use of hijabs among Muslim law graduates. In an interview with Premium Times, Firdaus, a UNILORIN law graduate, maintained...
A law school graduate identified as Amasa Firdaus wasn’t called to the Nigerian bar on the 12th of December 2017 because she was wearing Muslim apparel for women known as a hijab. Firdaus, a 2.1 graduate from the University of Ilorin, refused to remove her hijab as she insisted on wearing her wig on it. With the failure of Amasa...