LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The leader of the Shia movement in Nigeria under the umbrella of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria [IMN], Sheik Zakzaky has expressed interest in travelling to seek medical attention following the failed trip to Indian where the Islamic leader claimed sabotage by the Buhari administration. The spokesman for the Islamic movement, Ibrahim…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) have been reportedly killed in the early hours of Tuesday as police dispersed a procession of members of the group to commemorate Ashura day. The Shiites are demanding the release of their leader, Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, who has been in detention since Dec. 2015….
LAGOS SEPEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)- The Islamic Movement in Nigeria has said that the move by the police to arrest its leaders and members nationwide was targeted at curtailing their religious freedom and liberty. The group stated that the planned arrest was aimed at preventing its members from conducting their religious mourning obligations, noting the Federal…
LAGOS AUGUST 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), the lawyer to the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Ibraheem Elzakzaky, on Wednesday, described as worrisome the tense security situation put up by Nigerian forces around the Indian hospital where the cleric and his wife, Zeenat, had travelled for treatment. He, however, said that the situation…
LAGOS AUGUST 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kaduna State Government has filed at the Kaduna High Court “terms for strict supervision of the medical leave” granted an Islamic cleric, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife Zeenah Mr El-Zakzaky and his wife were granted leave to travel to India by a Kaduna high court after their lawyers proved his health…
LAGOS AUUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kaduna State High Court has granted the embattled leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, and his wife Zeenat, leave to seek medical attention abroad. In his ruling on Monday, Justice Darius Khobo ordered that the IMN leader be accompanied abroad by officials of the Kaduna State government….
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWRANGERS)-Members of the proscribed Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN, also known as Shiites, have said they are ready to die protesting the detention of their leader, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky by the government. This is even as they disowned the statement by their spokesman, Ibrahim Musa, announcing the suspension of their protests following…
LAGOS JULY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Islamic Movement in Nigeria is to challenge the court order obtained by the federal government banning the operations of the organisation, Vanguard has learnt in Kaduna. A senior member of the organisation told Vanguard that a team of legal practitioners is being assembled by the movement for the legal challenge. The…