The state Government said this action was taken in the exercise of the government’s duty to preserve peace and security in the state
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The seven defendants were charged for the offences of criminal conspiracy, unlawful assembly and inciting public peace, contrary to sections 97, 102 and 114 of the Penal Code
This was contained in the report of the National Human Rights Commission Special Investigation Panel on the clash released in Abuja on Wednesday
The judge, Justice Okon Abang, returned the case file in Abuja on Monday for reassignment to another judge when the court resumes from vacation
Addressing journalists on Monday in Abuja, the head of CATE secretariat, Gabriel Onoja, said the Federal Government owes it a duty to protect other Nigerians from the extremism being promoted by the sect, warning that the country already had enough security concerns
The Chairman of the Commission, Justice Muhammed Lawal-Garba, announced the end of the public hearing at the panel’s sitting on Wednesday
It accused them of criminal conspiracy, unlawful assembly, culpable homicide, disturbance of public peace and wrongful restrain
Protests were held in Kano, where thousands of men and women, young and old marched through the major streets of the city calling on the Federal Government to release Zakzaky, who has been in detention since December
The Secretary to the Kaduna State Government, Alhaji Lawal Babalare Abbas, was said to have admitted on Monday to the burial in a mass grave
A very reliable source confirmed to us that the Nigerian army has been uncomfortable with the way the atrocities they committed in Zaria last year is being exposed, drawing sympathy to the Islamic Movement not only in Nigeria but the world over. They attribute these to the activities of members of the Islamic Movement in other centres, especially those in both Katsina and Sokoto
The position of the Army was stated by the General Officer Commanding, 1 Mechanized Division, Kaduna, Major General Adeniyi Oyebade, on Wednesday
The funeral prayer was led by the Leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Shaikh Ibraheem Zakzaky, after the Arba’een commemoration with an estimated 17 million people in attendance