Nigeria Shiite Muslims hold religious flags and banners in a procession celebrating Prophet Muhammad’s birthday and also demanding the release of Shiite leader Ibraheem Zakzaky, on posters, in Kano, Nigeria, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015. The demonstration was in part provoked after a recent attack by Nigerian soldiers who fired on unarmed Islamic Shiite children with no provocation, killing some hundreds of the minority group in the West African nation, according to a report from Human Rights Watch. (AP Photo/Muhammed Giginyu)
The Federal Government of Nigeria has obtained an order to proscribe the Islamic Movement Organisation as a terrorist group
The vacation judge of the Federal High Court, Abuja, Justice Nkeonye Maha issued the order in a ruling in which she also designated the activities of the Shiite organisation in any part of Nigeria “as acts of terrorism and illegality.”
A lawyer in the chamber of the Attorney-General of the federation who spoke on the condition of anonymity confirmed that the Solicitor General, Dayo Akpata obtained the experte order on behalf of the Federal Government
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