PICTORIAL: Eid el-Fitri prayers in Lagos

Eid-el-Fitri is the festival that marks the end of a month-long Ramadan fast. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. During Ramadan, Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset, avoiding food, drinks and other pleasurable desires. Through fasting, Muslims take the time to get closer to Allah (SWT) by improving their ibadah (worship) and increasing dhikr (remembrance of God). Also, it was during Ramadan that the Holy Quran was revealed to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) Below are pictures of Eid prayers at Ikorodu Central Prayer Ground in Lagos State. Photo Credit: Elliot Ovadje Editor’s Note In our post on February 19, 2023, in a story ‘Woman burns self to death over failure to offset N70,000 loan’, we reported that a middle-aged woman, simply known as Mama Dada, set herself ablaze over her inability to pay back a loan of N70,000 she reportedly took from a microfinance bank, LAPO. We have since discovered that the microfinance bank referred to in the story was not LAPO Microfinance Bank Limited. We apologise to the LAPO Group for the error in the identification of the name of the said microfinance bank where the deceased took the loan. The mix-up in the name of the MFB is not deliberate.