The Muslim Students' Society of Nigeria (MSSN) was launched officially at the Ansaruddeen Alakoro Mosque School Hall, Lagos on 30 May 1954.
Within a year of formation, its branches spread to cover more schools in Lagos, Abeokuta, Ibadan, Ilesha, IjebuOde, and Ikorodu.
Two years later, the Society’s presence covered virtually all government schools in the north.
[1][2] Mallam Shehu Uthman Abubakar is the current and the 37th Ameer of the Muslim students' society of Nigeria.
Following the Chibok schoolgirl kidnapping, the president of the Muslim Students Society of Nigeria, Malam Abdulazeez Folayemi, called on Muslims to fast and pray "in order to seek Allah's intervention in this precarious time.