TEHRAN (IQNA) - A leading Nigerian civil rights group has condemned calls to ban hijab in northern Nigeria, warning that any such ban would offer no solution to the problem of Boko Haram extremism.
News ID: 3340434 Publish Date : 2015/08/09
TEHRAN (IQNA) - Changing his popular church to a mosque, a Nigerian pastor has embraced Islam and took Shahadah, attributing his reversion to a divine encounter he had with a strange man in white in his dreams.
News ID: 3339266 Publish Date : 2015/08/08
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Suicide bombs have killed at least 64 people in multiple blasts in Nigeria’s northeastern towns of Gombe and Damaturu, officials said Friday, scaring people into staying home during the Muslim Eid al-Fitr celebration.
News ID: 3328999 Publish Date : 2015/07/17
TEHRAN (IQNA) - Many mosques across Nigeria's northern region are cancelling the annual I'itikaaf session and all-night prayers in search of the Night of Power (Laylatul Qadri) for security reasons as Boko Haram militants have increasingly targeted mosques and other soft targets.
News ID: 3326720 Publish Date : 2015/07/11
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Nigeria-based Boko Haram Takfiri group killed eight civilians in Nigeria and slit the throats of five more in Niger, local sources say.
News ID: 3326367 Publish Date : 2015/07/11
TEHRAN (IQNA) - An emergency agency official says 44 people were killed by two bombs that exploded at a crowded mosque and an elite Muslim restaurant in Nigeria's central city of Jos.
News ID: 3324126 Publish Date : 2015/07/07
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Boko Haram Takfiri terrorists killed more than 140 people in three separate attacks on mosques and villages in Nigeria's northeast Borno State.
News ID: 3322565 Publish Date : 2015/07/03
TEHRAN (IQNA) - Muslims in Nigeria are in a race to complete recitation of the Qur'an as many times as possible before Ramadan winds down, with many parents enticing their children to memorize the holy book in return for gifts, among other things.
News ID: 3322497 Publish Date : 2015/07/03
TEHRAN (IQNA) - In a bid to spread Islamic teachings, new radio and television channels have been launched by a leading Nigerian Islamic group.
News ID: 3313448 Publish Date : 2015/06/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) - Ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, top Islamic organizations have concluded plans to offer free iftar meals for poor Nigerians observing fasting, reaching out the thousands of those displaced in the insurgency-hit country.
News ID: 3312189 Publish Date : 2015/06/09
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Nigeria’s national Quran recitation competition earlier slated for March 29 and April 1st has been postponed to June 9 and 13.
News ID: 3030990 Publish Date : 2015/03/24
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A Quranic and Islamic center was opened in Nigeria’s Oyo.
News ID: 3007428 Publish Date : 2015/03/18
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Nigeria’s Boko Haram terrorists have pledged allegiance to ISIL Takfiri terrorist group.
News ID: 2945797 Publish Date : 2015/03/08
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Nigerian Takfiri group Boko Haram has released a video that purportedly shows militants beheading two men, its first online posting using the advanced graphics and editing techniques associated with its counterpart in Syria and Iraq, ISIL.
News ID: 2925657 Publish Date : 2015/03/04
TEHRAN (IQNA) - Faisal Muhammad Awwal from Shinkafi Local Government Area has emerged the overall winner of the 18th edition of the Zamfara State’s Quran recitation competition in Nigeria.
News ID: 2623435 Publish Date : 2014/12/20
TEHRAN (IQNA) - Muslims in Nigeria have held the annual Arbaeen mourning rituals, which mark 40 days after the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein (peace be upon him).
News ID: 2618063 Publish Date : 2014/12/14
TEHRAN (IQNA) - The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Iyad Ameen Madani, has condemned the gruesome killing of hundreds of worshipers who gathered to pray on Friday, 28th November 2014.
News ID: 2613158 Publish Date : 2014/11/30
TEHRAN (IQNA) - Condemning the ‘horrific’ attack on Nigeria’s Kano Central Mosque, which killed dozens of people and injured hundreds of others, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on the authorities to bring the perpetrators to just and reaffirmed the United Nations support to Nigeria's battle against terrorism.
News ID: 2612965 Publish Date : 2014/11/29
TEHRAN (IQNA) - Gunmen set off three bombs and opened fire on worshippers at the main mosque in north Nigeria's biggest city Kano on Friday, killing at least 81 people, witnesses and officials said, in an attack that bore the hallmarks of Islamist Boko Haram militants.
News ID: 2612679 Publish Date : 2014/11/29
The Zionist regime is seeking to coax the Nigerian government into assassination of the African country's top Shia leader Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, his son revealed on Wednesday.
News ID: 1474931 Publish Date : 2014/11/19
