Sheikh Yusuf Abdullahi Lokoja (RTA). Sheikh Yusuf, popularly known as Sheikh Yusuf Lokoja, was born in Bagana in Igalaland to a family of Nupe extraction (Tahir 2005). At the age of four, his parents moved down to settle at Lokoja and at the age of eight he was enrolled at Sheikh Abubakar Qur’anic School in Lokoja. He committed the whole Qur’an into memory at a tender age at Sheikh Asafa Qur’anic school where he also read some basic books on Islamic studies. He later studied under different scholars and Sufis in Lokoja. Sheikh Yusuf was initiated into the Tijaniyya order by Sheikh Abdullahi Haruna in Lokoja in 1949. In 1959, he visited Sheikh Niass in Senegal who granted him ijazah (permission) to confer muqaddamship on his followers. He has travelled extensively in Nigeria, West Africa and the Arab world. He has visited Kaolac in Senegal, Ghana, Mali, Republic of Benin, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and Morocco. Sheikh Yusuf is versed in Arabic and Islamic studies...