Bayero told reporters shortly after Justice Gideon Kurada, adjourned the case until May 25, that he had asked the court to over rule the defence, and sentence Zakzaky, leader of Islamic Movement in Nigeria and his wife as provided by the law.
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Fayose praised the judiciary for standing firm in defence of the rule of law
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
Ali said: “The Commission should not start hearing today to give sufficient time to the defence counsel to gain access to the IMN leader on Tuesday as agreed by the Department of Security Services
The position of the Army was stated by the General Officer Commanding, 1 Mechanized Division, Kaduna, Major General Adeniyi Oyebade, on Wednesday
The Public Relatioons Officer of the IMN, which is a Shiite Islamic group, Jamila Awwal, said this while addressing journalists in Kaduna on Tuesday
The spokesperson for the community, Idris Baba, told a news conference in Kaduna on Saturday that Shiites had held people in Zaria and Sabon Gari Local Government Areas of the state hostage with impunity and running a parallel government
Buratai said this when he met with a delegation from the Nigerian Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs at the Army Headquarters in Abuja
A statement from the Shiite sect’s spokesman on Tuesday identified the sons of the Islamic cleric as Sayyid Hammad and Sayyid Ali Haidar, his seventh and eighth sons
The Iranian foreign ministry on Monday afternoon summoned the Nigerian envoy to voice Tehran’s serious concern over the incident
The sect also said the whereabout of Zakzaky was also not known as at the time of issuing the statement
Abubakar, in a statement on Sunday by the NSCIA, expressed shock and sadness over the current outbreak of deadly violence in Zaria, Kaduna State involving the Nigerian Army and the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, led by Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky
Sheik Turi and Usman were said to have been shot by soldiers in front of Zakzaky’s residence in Gyellesu area, Zaria, Kaduna State on Sunday morning
It was learnt that for the better part of Saturday evening and in the early hours of Sunday, gunshots were heard in Zaria
The confusion stemmed from the initial figure of the dead relayed by those at the scene of the clash to media houses and the varying versions of what led to the clash by the Nigerian Army and the sect members
Members of the sect, led by Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, initially gave an outlandish figure of 50 dead to The Eagle Online while the clash was on
In a bid to ferry their boss to safety, those in the convoy of Buratai were said to have shot at the crowd surging towards Buratai
The soldiers were said to have shot at the members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria in Zaria, Kaduna State
According to the Media Team Leader of the 2015 Arba’een symbolic trek, Ibrahim Usman, the incident occurred at Dakasoye village area of Garun Mallam Local Government Area of Kano State around 2:30pm