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  The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has kicked against the examination timetable of the National Open University (NOUN) for the year 2022.  The human rights organization accused NOUN of preparing an examination timetable that leaves no room for Jumu‘ah prayer thereby forcing Muslim candidates to write examinations under duress and compelling Muslim invigilators to work in a dehumanizing and despiritualizing condition. The group described the examination timetable as anti-Muslim and neo-imperialist.   This was made known in a press statement circulated among journalists on Thursday, 5 th  May, 2022 by the director of MURIC, Professor Ishaq Akintola.   The statement reads :   “The timetable of the 2022 POP Final Examination Timetable released by the National Open University (NOUN) has revealed that Muslim students and Muslim staff of the institution were forced to write the aforementioned examination and invigilate same respectively during the period of the Jumu‘ah prayer from Tuesday 19