Tag: el-zakzaky
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Court to decide El-Zakzaky’s bail today
Justice Darius Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court will on Monday [today] rule on the application filed by the embattled leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, who is seeking permission to travel abroad for medical treatment. The bail hearing comes barely three days after a Federal High Court in Abuja granted…
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Why Buhari did not honour court orders to release El-Zakzaky, Dasuki, others – Malami
…as Senate adjourns till Tuesday The immediate past Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, explained yesterday that the continued incarceration of the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, and former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki, is in the interest of national security. Malami told senators…
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El-Zakzaky: Shiites release names of members killed, accuse Police of ‘holding 15 corpses’
The Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), popularly known as Shiites, has said security agencies are working hard to portray the sect as a terrorist organization. IMN in a press statement on Wednesday, signed by Sheikh Abdulhamid Bello noted that Buhari’s administration is bent on using all the force at its disposal, in stopping their march…
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Bloody Protests: Rowdy session as reps debate Shiites leader's release
From Jonas Ike, Abuja The 360 Members of the House of Representatives were on Tuesday divided on the propriety and otherwise of the release of the Leader of Islamic Movement of Nigeria also known as Shiites Sheik Ibrahim Elzakzaky. This followed the rejection of a motion by Hon. Shamsudden Bello representing Sumaila/Taka Federal Constituency of…
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El-Zakzaky: Group condemns arson, attack on innocent citizens by IMN members
The PDP Rebirth Mandate, has condemned in its entirety the arson and attacks on innocent Nigerians by members of the Ibrahim El-Zakzaky-led Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN. The group was reacting to the Monday’s attack by the Shiite militants on emergency point of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA and innocent citizens leading to deaths.…
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Bloody Protests: Let Court decide El-Zakzaky’s fate, Presidency tells Shi’ite members
The Presidency has appealed to El-Zakzaky-led Shiite members to desist from needless violent, street protests and await the decision of the court in Kaduna where their leader is currently being tried. According to a statement by presidential spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Friday, the issue of El-ZakZaky is before the court in Kaduna…
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Court adjourns El-Zazaky’s application for medical attention to July 29
Justice Darius Khobo of Kaduna State High Court, on Thursday, adjourned hearing in the application for permission to travel to India for medical attention filed by Ibrahim El-Zazaky and his wife, Zinat, to July 29. The Islamic Movement of Nigeria leader and his wife applied to the court seeking to travel, following poor health while…
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Court to hear El-Zakzaky’s application to travel abroad on July 18
A Kaduna State High Court will on Thursday hear the application of the leader of Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Ibrahim El-Zazaky and wife, Zinat, seeking to travel to India for medical attention. The IMN leader is standing trial over allegations of culpable homicide, unlawful assembly and disruption of public peace among other charges. The…
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Nigeria will face fresh bloody insurgency if El-Zakzaky dies in your custody, Falana warns Buhari
Femi Falana, Nigerian lawyer and human rights activist has sounded a note of warning to the Buhari government on the implications of detaining Shiite leader, Ibraheem El-Zakzaky and his wife, despite court orders for his release. The legal luminary said the nation risks another insurgency, should El Zakzaky die in detention, just like it happened…
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21 million of us ready to sacrifice our lives for El-zakzaky's freedom – Shiites
The Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN, also known as Shi’ites have vowed to lay down the lives of its members who are more down 21 million if the Federal Government failed to release its leader, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky. Shi’ites said this while staging its protest in Ikeja, Lagos State on Thursday. Members of the group chanted…