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US played secret role in Nigeria attack that killed more than 160 civilians
Aug 05, 2022 20:50The US played an unacknowledged role in the 2017 bombing of an internally displaced persons’ camp in Nigeria that killed more than 160 civilians, many of them children.
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Nigerian Shia Muslims’ focus on national unity
Jun 28, 2022 19:03For the betterment of Nigeria and preservation of its unity in diversity, the authorities, whether the present ones or those to come after the presidential elections, should discharge their duties sincerely in bringing an end to the nefarious activities of the various groups of bandits, kidnappers, terrorists, shadowy gunmen, rustlers and others, especially those taking orders from Riyadh, Tel Aviv and Washington to backstab their own country and fellow citizens.
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Has the Nigerian state turned into instrument of terrorism?
Dec 16, 2021 21:59The Leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), after five years of illegal imprisonment and torture, has had the opportunity to commemorate the 6th anniversary of the brutal massacre in the city of Zaria by the regime’s forces.
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Sheikh Zakzaky’s acquittal – triumph of truth over tyranny
Aug 06, 2021 20:51The recent verdict of the Nigerian Court absolving the illegally detained Leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) of all accusations against him and his subsequent freedom, along with that of his wife, is indeed heartening for all conscientious people throughout the world.
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Why your face could be set to replace your bank card
Jan 28, 2021 05:59Welcome to the futuristic world of facial recognition payment. It might sound like something from a science fiction movie, but this kind of transaction is already happening millions of times a day across China's major cities.
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Black lives do not matter even in black Nigeria
Jul 02, 2020 12:25If the slogans and the placards reading "Black Lives Matter” in protest to the sporadic killings of citizens of color by the white-skinned US police forces have caught the attention of the international media, these same media horns have not much focused on the organized killing of black Nigerian Shi’a Muslims by the Nigerian regime of the same dark color which also claims to be Muslim.
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The forgotten Sheikh Zakzaky
Apr 04, 2020 20:07It is now over four years and three months that the Leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) continues to languish in prison in deteriorating health, along with his wife and several followers at an undisclosed location in his homeland, as a prisoner of conscience in a country whose regime despite its claim to be democratic and ruled by a self-acclaimed Muslim ruler, denies civil liberties to millions of followers of the school of the Ahl al-Bayt of the Prophet of Islam.
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Delay in Sheikh Zakzaky’s release raises doubts in Nigerian gov’t
Dec 19, 2019 09:21Sections of the Nigerian press have begun to express doubts on Nigeria’s claim to be a functioning democracy, by noting that Mohammadu Buhari first took power in 1983 in a military coup as a general, long before his election in 2015 as a democratically elected president, who earlier this year began his second term – on the basis of questionable voting.
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The deafening silence on Sheikh Zakzaky
Nov 17, 2019 17:52There is hardly any news about the condition and whereabouts of the Leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) ever since his abrupt return to his country from an Indian hospital three months ago and his whisking away by the Nigerian security forces to an undisclosed destination.
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Will Nigeria’s chief justice succeed in securing Zakzaky’s release?
Oct 12, 2019 10:05It should be noted that Leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, along with his wife, and several followers, continues to be in prison, despite his worsening health conditions, ever since the illegal detention by the army in Zaria on 15th December 2015.