{"id":347,"date":"2025-05-11T09:57:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T09:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/natais.org.ng\/journal\/?post_type=article&#038;p=347"},"modified":"2025-05-11T09:57:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T09:57:39","slug":"purposeful-leadership-as-a-panacea-for-peace-and-national-development-the-roles-of-nigerian-muslim-leaders-identified","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/natais.org.ng\/journal\/article\/purposeful-leadership-as-a-panacea-for-peace-and-national-development-the-roles-of-nigerian-muslim-leaders-identified\/","title":{"rendered":"PURPOSEFUL LEADERSHIP AS A PANACEA FOR PEACE AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: THE ROLES OF NIGERIAN MUSLIM LEADERS IDENTIFIED"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Abstract:<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Purposeful leadership is the bedrock of any society, big or small, known or unknown, and for it to run efficiently and functionally, there must be a system in place to ensure that events and activities are controlled reasonably to achieve their desired goals. Nigeria as a country is not occupying her place of pride among the comity of nations, if we are to compare her present status with countries like Malaysia and Singapore, with which she attained political independence in the 1960s. This, in our view, is the fallout of the Muslim leaders within the country. The religious leaders, who are supposed to be showing purposeful leadership, seem to have been found wanting in this regard. However, Islam as a religion and a total way of life lays emphasis on the active involvement of Muslim leaders towards the development and progress of their country. The paper, through an analytical approach, argues that no nation develops into a peaceful and deradicalised society if and when Muslim leaders fold their arms, watching it deteriorate or collapse due to the negative behaviours of both the rulers and the ruled. The paper looks at the problems of governance in Nigeria with special attention on the roles Muslim leaders have been and should be playing towards achieving purposeful leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-pdf-viewer-block-standard\" style=\"text-align:left\"><div class=\"uploaded-pdf\"><a href=\"https:\/\/natais.org.ng\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/JSA_Paper-2.pdf\" data-width=\"\" data-height=\"\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purposeful leadership is the bedrock of any society, big or small, known or unknown, and for it to run efficiently and 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