Amnesty International said soldiers fired live rounds at protesters as a form of crowd control – events the military disputed.
In Abuja, intense clashes between Nigerian security forces and Shi'ite Muslim protesters led to several reported deaths. The ...
Police say soldiers and members of a Shiite Muslim group have clashed in Nigeria’s capital Abuja, killing six people ...
Nigerian police said on Saturday they had come under intense gunfire a day earlier in a neighbourhood of the capital, Abuja, during clashes between security forces and Shi'ite Muslim protesters that ...
According to her, the suspect remains in police custody, and investigations continue to identify accomplices and expose the ...
ABUJA - Nigerian police said ... Isa Sanusi, head of Amnesty International Nigeria, called for an impartial investigation. "The army used live ammunition on the protesters. It appears they ...