JOURNALIST SHOT DEAD DURING SHITTE VIOLENT PROTEST

 The Monday’s protest comes about two weeks after two Shiites were killed and two police officers injured after a similar protest turned violent at the National Assembly, while the Islamic group are demanding the release of their leader, Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, who has been in detention for alleged murder since December 2015.

Penpushing recalled that,  El-Zakzaky, and his wife were taken into custody  after soldiers massacred hundreds of his members in Zaria, Kaduna State, between December 12 and 15,while  El-Zakzaky’s children were said to be amongst those killed.

The Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai  set up a judicial panel which found the military culpable in the massacre, recommending a Major-General for trial, but the Nigerian Army denied culpability in the massacre, which President Buhari defended during a media chat on December 30, 2015.