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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 ...
This is a list of notable Islamic religious leaders in Nigeria. Sunni. Salafis. Ahmad Abubakar Gumi; Sheikh Adelabu; Ja'afar Mahmud Adam; Isa Ali Pantami;
This list of countries by traffic-related death rate shows the annual number of road fatalities per capita per year, per number of motor vehicles, and per vehicle-km in some countries in the year the data was collected. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), road traffic injuries caused an estimated 1.35 million deaths worldwide in ...
Abubakar Mohammed Shekau (23 March 1973 – 19 May 2021) was a Nigerian militant who was the leader of Boko Haram, an Islamist extremist organization based in northeastern Nigeria, from 2009 to 2021. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He served as deputy leader to the group's founder, Mohammed Yusuf , until Yusuf's execution in 2009.
12 people killed during the wedding with five people captured including the bride and groom. [114] December 20, 2021: Nasarawa State: 50 Fulani herdsmen 2021 Nasarawa massacre: At least 50 Tiv civilians were killed in Nasarawa state, [115] due to Fulani herdersmen blaming Tiv farmers for the killings of a kinsman. [116] May 5, 2022 Ondo State: 50
Several incidents have occurred whereby people have been killed for or in response to perceived blasphemy. Since the turn of the 21st century, 62,000 Nigerian Christians have been killed by the terrorist group Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen and other groups. [48] [49] The killings have been referred to as a silent genocide. [51] [52]
This is the third major incident of rioting in Jos within a ten-year span. Some one thousand people were killed in riots in 2001, and at least 700 died in subsequent violence in 2008. [5] Jos is the capital of Plateau State, in the middle of the divide between the predominantly Muslim north of Nigeria and the predominantly Christian south. [6]
List of Nigerian Islamic religious leaders This page was last edited on 26 May 2024, at 01:40 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...