DEAR CHRISTIAN: Stop wishing for the Removal of Arabic on Naira Notes, due to the following reasons.

English language is not the language that is associated with the birth of Christianity but Hebrew. English is Nigeria's official language.

At some point in your life, you’ve probably heard someone say they don’t care about money; you may have even said that yourself. While this sentiment sounds nice in theory, the reality is for better or worse that you shouldn’t underestimate the importance of money. the existence of money allows you to trade your labor for things that you value. There are many major benefits of money, Since money is something you will always need, it’s important that you make plans as early as possible to ensure you will always have enough.

As we quite well known the internet is a wonderful place to look for information, I will not digress too far on the topic. Anyone with internet access can see the pictures of British West African Government coins dating back to 1936 or even earlier having Arabic on them. You can check the same thing for the one-pound note. or other note around your environment.

for the avoidance of doubt, Arabic has been a part of Nigeria’s language before the English ever dreamt of getting here. When Luggard reached Northern Nigeria, there were about 25,000 schools whose lingua franca was Arabic and Hausa.

They wrote both languages using Arabic alphabets. The whole of West Africa knew Arabic as a major language and its alphabets were widely used to write native languages. this issue had been going on for a long time.

If you take extra careful, apart from the Hausa language, the Yorubas also wrote their language in Ajami at least a hundred years before the coming of the colonialists. Yorubas were in contact with Arabic speaking Muslims and Islam before Christianity.

by the way, history tells us that the current Arabic letters came from Nabatean Aramaic letters. The numbers on the naira notes are still Arabic. Any student of mathematics history will tell you that our current numbers came from Arabic numbers. The later addition is the zero, which came from the Sanskrit language. Arabs called it sifr and the anglicised form is what we now call zero. this is a strong proof for you people to understand

Initially, the colonialists put Arabic on our money to solve a communication problem with millions of people who were used to a different writing system than the new one.

They knew that many Northerners also avoided the missionary schools where their children were often converted forcefully to Christianity and given Christian names. This meant that only a small percentage of them would be able to read the new Latin letters. It was for them the coins and the notes had these extra inscriptions. this is not point presentation, but fact of what happened.

Now that we experienced those fact, What is wrong with leaving it there? Does it cost extra to leave it? Does it harm anyone? Is it aesthetically unsuitable? Does it affect the use of the naira in any way?

Why not remove the Latin letters too and leave just numbers? I agree that its original purpose is hardly relevant again but why not leave it for its historical, cultural and aesthetic values. we should not engage in doing such crazy and unwise decision

Furthermore, the Nigerian Army coat of arms has the inscription, “Victory is from God” It is part of the Qur’an that we are using as the motto of our Army. We should demand its removal for two reasons. Firstly is the sacrilege of wearing Allah’s name on Army paraphernalia to the toilet and other filthy places including beer joints.

The second reason is fairness. In a national institution that is not peculiar to one faith, it is unfair to use part of our scripture as a motto. I guess most Christians and Muslims are unaware of this, as it would have started another bigots’ war. we don't need to engage in any kind of thing strength talk.

if we take a look at Our hospitals all carry the symbol of the Cross, which Muslims consider blasphemy, as the symbol of a health facility. No one is addressing these issues among the non-Muslims complaining about Ajami. It was fairly recently that the Red Cross Society added the Red Crescent to their emblem for Muslim communities. think about this thing as you always witness.

In February 2007, the government removed Arabic script from some lower-denomination notes. It said that Ajami was no longer necessary because most Nigerians could now read and write in English.

The government also said it removed Ajami in order to conform to Nigeria’s 1999 constitution.

In 2014, the Goodluck Jonathan administration issued a new N100 note to commemorate the 1914 amalgamation  

My point of view on the Arabic script is that it is part of our cultural heritage and history of our monetary system. Just as we have the photographs of great men who helped shape our Central Bank’s history and the nation’s history on the banknotes, I advise that the CBN should leave the Ajami scripts. They are unique to Nigeria and the naira note looks shorn of a certain sentimental value when it is without Ajami. It causes no harm to leave it. On the other hand, if these entreaties do not cause any change of mind, I urge Muslims to be calm, as it does not harm us ij any way.