Author(s):
Taofiki Aminu, taofik.aminu1@gmail.com, 08034158418

Abstract: The Yoruba Muslims are one of the dominant people andearlier settlers in Northern Nigeria since antiquity.The people have played, and still playing tremendous role in the propagation of Islam wherever they settles in the host community. They enjoy the vantage of the monolithic Islam in Sokoto metropolis, a factor which culminated into expression of Islam concomitantly through theirculture. This in consequence resulted into excruciation of Yoruba Muslims in the host community fundamentally for not allowing Islam to play its superseding roles. It isquintessential to construe that the Yoruba Muslimsfound solace in expression of Islam through their autochthonous culture. However, this by implications led toimprovisation of new ideas and ideologies making it extremely subtle and complexfor some Yoruba Muslims to absolutely divorce ancestral beliefs from Islam as ordained in the Glorious Qu’ran and Hadith.Consequently, this development had for so many times led to outright criticism, passing of derogatory and disparaging statements on some Yoruba Muslims.It isan incontrovertible fact that the systematic manipulation of Islam manifested in the 1970s, as a respond by Yoruba Muslims in the host community, they proliferated vision for separate Yorubamosques, Islamic societies, distinct Islamic social gathering and others. This is also a response to Christian evangelism which has become percolated among the Yoruba in the southwest of Nigeria and gradually spreading its ideologies to the north. These developments made many a Yoruba Muslims to face myriads of implicationsleading tounleashing of nauseating sermons and preachingamong Muslims adherent in the host community. To achieve national integration in Nigeria in this connection, the paper conclude with some recommendations for didactic comprehension of the basic tenet of Islam; absolute embracement of Yoruba Muslims by the Hausa host; de-emphasising of ethno-religious cleavages, dichotomies and others. It is against the above background the methodology adopted for the paper is the synthesis of primary and secondary sources as to validate the reliability of data.