Tag: IBRAHIM ZAKZAKY
BREAKING: Gunshots as protesting Shiites return to Abuja streets
Policemen and operatives of the Department of State Security (DSS) have taken over Wuse 2, Abuja to disperse protesting members of the Islamic Movement...
Channels TV reporter, deputy commissioner of police confirmed dead in bloody...
A reporter with Channels Television, Precious Owolabi, has died from gunshot wound sustained while covering a clash between Shiites and police in the Central...
115 Shiite protesters arrested in Abuja
At least 115 supporters of pro-Iranian Shiite group, Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), were arrested in Abuja on Monday during the latest protest to...
10 Shiites killed in clashes with police in Kano
At least 10 people were killed and several injured Monday when police opened fire during clashes with pro-Iranian Shiites in Kano, witnesses and police...
10 killed as soldiers, youths clash with Shiites
At least 10 people were killed and scores injured on Wednesday in violent clashes between Shiite Muslims, civilians and security forces across northern Nigeria,...
Amnesty accuses Nigerian military over deadly Shiite clashes
Amnesty International on Friday accused Nigeria's military of deliberately shooting dead more than 350 Shiite Muslims, burying them in mass graves and destroying evidence...
Amnesty International wants probe of secret mass burial of Shiites in...
Claims by a Kaduna State official that Nigeria's military secretly buried 347 people after clashes with members of a minority Shiite Muslim sect should...
Shiites march in Kaduna, demand Zakzaky’s realese
Dozens of protesters carrying “Free Zakzaky” banners marched in Kaduna on Friday demanding the release of Ibrahim Zakzaky, the Nigerian Shiite leader who has...
Shiites accused of running parallel government as sect continues protest in...
The residents of Gyallesu in Zaria, Kaduna State have called on human rights groups to look into the pains caused their community by Shiite...
Shiites march through Kano to mark Muhammad’s birthday, killing of members
Hundreds of Shiite Muslims marched through Kano State on Thursday to mark both the birth of the Prophet Muhammad and the killing of hundreds...