TEHRAN (IQNA) – Clashes erupted in Nigeria between security forces and the supporters of an imprisoned Shia cleric marching in the capital, Abuja, on Monday.
News ID: 3467111 Publish Date : 2018/10/30
TEHRAN (IQNA) – At least 10 people were killed in a fresh raid by Nigerian security forces on members of the country’s Shia Muslim community.
News ID: 3467093 Publish Date : 2018/10/28
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Thirty-one-year-old Umar Abdullahi Sha’ayau from Jigawa State of Nigeria emerged the overall winner of the 22nd edition of the Annual Quran Recitation Competition that ended in Minna, Niger State of Nigeria, on Sunday
News ID: 3466987 Publish Date : 2018/10/15
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Amnesty International accused Nigeria’s government of carrying out unlawful arrests and practicing “enforced disappearance,” calling on Abuja to clarify the fate of hundreds of Shia activists taken into custody.
News ID: 3466654 Publish Date : 2018/08/31
TEHRAN (IQNA) – At least 19 people were killed in a terrorist attack on a village in northeast Nigeria in the early hours of Sunday, a survivor of the attack said.
News ID: 3466568 Publish Date : 2018/08/20
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, will play host to an Islam-Christianity dialogue later this month.
News ID: 3466561 Publish Date : 2018/08/19
TEHRAN (IQNA) – As many as 200 Quran memorizers graduated in a ceremony at the Centre for Quranic Studies of Bayero University Kano (BUK) in Nigeria on Saturday.
News ID: 3466427 Publish Date : 2018/07/29
TEHRAN (IQNA) – At least eight worshipers were killed and eight others injured on Monday in a suspected suicide bombing at a mosque in northeastern Nigeria, eyewitnesses and residents said.
News ID: 3466391 Publish Date : 2018/07/24
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Police in Nigeria’s Kaduna state attacked people holding a rally held to call for the release of Shia cleric Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky.
News ID: 3466140 Publish Date : 2018/06/23
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Nigeria's military said it has rescued more than 1,000 people held captive in northeastern Nigeria by the armed group Boko Haram.
News ID: 3465758 Publish Date : 2018/05/08
TEHRAN (IQNA) – At least 24 people were killed in a double suicide attack on a mosque and a market in northeast Nigeria, police said.
News ID: 3465704 Publish Date : 2018/05/02
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Two suicide bombers killed four Muslim worshippers in a mosque in a northeast Nigerian town still being rebuilt after virtual destruction by Boko Haram in 2014.
News ID: 3465625 Publish Date : 2018/04/23
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Ibrahim Musa, the President of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) Media Forum criticized the Nigerian government for refusing to follow all the procedures of the appeal made on the judgement of the federal high court on freeing IMN leader Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky
News ID: 3465611 Publish Date : 2018/04/22
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Nigerian police fired teargas at hundreds of Shia Muslim protesters on Tuesday during a second day of clashes in the capital Abuja over the imprisonment of their religious leader.
News ID: 3465574 Publish Date : 2018/04/17
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Rights activists held rallies in Britain, Pakistan, Turkey and Switzerland in solidarity with jailed Nigerian Shia cleric Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky.
News ID: 3465553 Publish Date : 2018/04/16
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Academic Forum of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria on Tuesday urged pressure on the African country’s federal government to release their detained leader, Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky.
News ID: 3465529 Publish Date : 2018/04/11
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A 20-year-old man, Amiru Yunusa, from Bauchi State, emerged the overall winner of Nigeria’s 32nd national Quran competition held in Katsina.
News ID: 3465316 Publish Date : 2018/03/04
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Madinatul Ahahab Waltalamiz Islamic School, in Daura, Katsina State of Nigeria, has trained 464 students on Quranic recitation.
News ID: 3465223 Publish Date : 2018/02/18
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, rumored to have died in detention, made his first public appearance since he was illegally detained by security forces in 2015.
News ID: 3464935 Publish Date : 2018/01/14
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A funeral was held in Nigeria for a student who was killed by government forces during protests calling for the release of prominent cleric Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky.
News ID: 3464897 Publish Date : 2018/01/09
