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Shekau was reported to have been "fatally wounded" during an airstrike in Taye village on 19 August 2016 by Nigerian Air Force which also killed some senior leaders of Boko Haram. [49] [50] On 25 September, a video of a man purported to be Shekau was released on YouTube, in which he claimed that he was alive and in good health. [51]
Two students identified from the video were arrested in connection with the lynching. [16] [17] However, none have been prosecuted. One Muslim perpetrator has filmed himself proclaiming that he did it in graphical terms. A Nigerian police officer filmed himself endorsing the Islamist lynching and called any one who questioned the act a "Kafir ...
The international crisis reached the Nigerian city of Maiduguri, in which over 50 people were killed and many buildings destroyed or damaged by rioting Muslims, outraged because of cartoons about Muhammad in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. 2008 Ogaminana massacre: 2008-02-26 Ogaminana, Kogi State: over 50
Nigerian Army The Zaria massacre, also known as the Buhari massacre, was a massacre carried out by the Nigerian Army in Zaria , Kaduna State , Nigeria, on Saturday, 12 December 2015, against Shia Muslims, mostly members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN).
MAIDUGURI/ABUJA (Reuters) -An airstrike on a village in Nigeria's northwestern Zamfara state killed at least 33 people last week, four residents and a traditional leader said, after a military ...
Five people were killed in fighting, including three policemen. The governor was not hurt. [213] On 2 August, Boko Haram killed at least 18 people in a grenade attack on an IDP camp in Far North, Cameroon. [214] [215] [216] On 9 August, ISWAP killed six French aid workers and two Nigerien civilians in Kouré, Tillabéri Region, Niger. [217]
Qasim Umar Sokoto (died 5 February 2018) was a contributor to the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, [1] the prayer leader and Islamic teacher in Sokoto, the Northern city of Nigeria. On 18 July 2007, Shia community was persecuted in the region at by Nigerian security forces, [ 2 ] following the death of Umaru Danmaishiyya, a popular Salafi cleric in ...
In April 2022, he joined about 60 other people, including Jewish and Christian faith leaders, at a climate change protest in Newark. "He was a community advocate who protested against gun violence ...