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SINGAPORE – Acting Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs Faishal Ibrahim has resigned from political office over a “lapse of judgment” in handling his interactions with a woman, who is a member of the public.
Most of their interactions took place through online messages and they also met on the sidelines of public events, said Prime Minister Lawrence Wong in a statement on July 20.
Zaqy Mohamad, who is currently Senior Minister of State for Sustainability and the Environment and Defence, will take over as Acting Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs.
Faishal, in a letter of resignation to PM Wong on July 20, said there was no physical relationship between him and the woman, and that he had not intended for the interactions to develop into one.
But he said on reflection, he recognised that his conduct “fell short of the standards expected of me and was not consistent with the responsibilities entrusted…
SINGAPORE – Former acting minister-in-charge of Muslim affairs Faishal Ibrahim is discussing arrangements for a return to academia with the National University of Singapore.
An NUS spokesperson said this on Aug 24 in response to queries from The Straits Times.
This comes about a month after Faishal resigned from political office and as an MP on July 20 over a “lapse of judgment” in handling his interactions with a woman, who is a member of the public.
He was succeeded by Zaqy Mohamad as acting minister.
Faishal was with NUS as an associate professor in the university’s real estate department before taking political office, and joined the front bench in 2012 as a parliamentary secretary for transport.
A career academic before joining politics, he went to NUS for his undergraduate degree and went on to top his master’s class in real estate.
He was then invited to be a senior tutor there and later earned a doctorate in management sciences on an NUS scholarship.
He later joined politics and was elected as part of the PAP’s Marine Parade GRC team in 2006, and was re-elected for three more terms in Nee Soon GRC.
He returned to Marine Parade for the May 2025 General Election, where his team won uncontested.
Faishal was made acting minister and promoted to senior minister of state for home affairs after a Cabinet reshuffle several weeks after the election, succeeding Masagos Zulkifli.
Before that, Faishal had been made minister of state in 2020.
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/faishal-ibrahim-in-discussions-to-return-to-academia-nus
