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Court awards N100m fine against IGP for unlawful arrest, killing of Free Zakzaky protester

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….Orders IGP, CMD of Asokoro District Hospital to release his corpse for Islamic burial rites A Federal High Court, Abuja, has awarded a N100 million fine against the Inspector-General of Police over an allegation bordering on the arrest and killing of Ja’afar Muhammad, a member of Free Zakzaky protesters in Abuja. Justice Zainab Abubakar, in a judgement on a suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CD/409/2020, held that the arrest of late Muhammad by the police officers at Gwagwalada Teaching Hospital on July 22, 2019, and his killing on July 24, 2019, at SARS…

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Islamic Movement denies alleged plan to attack prisons in FCT, 5 other states

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…Says allegation is FG’s ploy to give the group bad name The Islamic Movement, unders the leadership of Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, has denied the allegation that it is planning a jailbreak in correctional centres across five states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The group described the allegation as a plot by the Muhammed Buhari-led government to tagged the organisation in badlight. The reaction came following allegation that an official in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) who is a Director in the…

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Arbaeen symbolic trek: IMN accused Buhari of ordering Guards Brigade to attack its members in 2018

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The Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), on Monday, accused President Muhammadu Buhari of ordering the Guards Brigade to attack its members who were observing the Arbaeen symbolic trek in 2018. Sheikh Sidi Munir Sokoto, one of the executive members of IMN, made the allegation in a statement he released after the commemoration of the fortieth day (Arbaeen) of Imam Husain, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad (SAWA)’s death in Abuja. “Today, not only in Nigeria but in Karbala, this Arbaeen commemoration has become the largest human gathering on earth with over…

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