{"id":233915,"date":"2025-08-07T10:38:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T10:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abianewscentral.com.ng\/bbnaija-10-why-i-chose-islam-over-christianity-sultana\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T10:38:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T10:38:01","slug":"bbnaija-10-why-i-chose-islam-over-christianity-sultana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/bbnaija-10-why-i-chose-islam-over-christianity-sultana\/","title":{"rendered":"BBNaija 10: Why I chose Islam over Christianity \u2013 Sultana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBNaija 10: Why I chose Islam over Christianity \u2013 Sultana<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>Big Brother Naija 10\/10 housemate, Farida Sultana Auduson Ibrahim, known simply as Sultana, has revealed she chose Islam over Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old plus-size model explained that she grew up with a Muslim father and a Christian mother but decided to practice Islam because it is the religion that \u201cworks best\u201d for her.<\/p>\n<p>She shared that she was a Catholic with the baptismal name Josephine before she converted to Islam.<\/p>\n<p>She disclosed this during a chat with fellow housemate, Zita, on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Zita: \u201cAre your parents strict Muslims?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sultana: \u201cNo, I grew up going to both church and mosque, my mom is a Christian. At some point I got baptized in Catholic, my baptismal name is Josephine. I just decided to choose the religion that works best for me, which is Islam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sultana\u2019s father is a Muslim from Adamawa State, while her mother is a Christian from Yala, Cross River State.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v9.0&amp;appId=420332301344305\" nonce=\"sm97MhBO\" type=\"pmdelayedscript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" data-no-optimize=\"1\" data-no-defer=\"1\" data-no-minify=\"1\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>BBNaija, BBNaija 10, Christianity, Sultana,<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/2025\/08\/07\/bbnaija-10-why-i-chose-islam-over-christianity-sultana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBNaija 10: Why I chose Islam over Christianity \u2013 Sultana Big Brother Naija 10\/10 housemate, Farida Sultana Auduson Ibrahim, known simply as Sultana, has revealed she chose Islam over Christianity. The 25-year-old plus-size model explained that she grew up with a Muslim father and a Christian mother but decided to practice Islam because it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[278,1064,1339,1340],"class_list":["post-233915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-bbnaija","tag-bbnaija-10","tag-christianity","tag-sultana"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}