“Hosseini infants’ ceremony was held in Kano, Nigeria in commemoration of martyrdom of Ali-Asghar (AS), the 6-month-old son of Imam Hossein (AS) who was martyred brutally in the battle of Karbala.

Like Shia Muslims elsewhere in the world, Nigerian Shias began holding ceremonies to mourn the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein (AS) in the 680 AD battle of Karbala.

On Tuesday 23, July 2019 the ailing leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Zakzaky was diagnosed with some bullets in his brain aside the 7 complications he has been battling with since December, 2015.

A spokesman for the Hawzah or the Shia Seminary of Qom has warned about an uprising against the Nigerian government, army and said the military is trying to murder the leader of Islamic Movement in Nigeria while he is still detained.

Top Nigerian Muslim cleric Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, who has been imprisoned for four years now, is said to have been poisoned in prison, according to doctors who found high levels of toxic substance in his blood.