The defense team of Nigeria's top Shia cleric Sheikh Zakzaky has adopted its final address to a Nigerian High Court submitting that there is no case against the Muslim cleric.

The prosecution in Sheikh Zakzaky’s trial finally completed the presentation of witnesses when the trial resumed in a Kaduna High Court where the Islamic cleric is standing trial for culpable homicide and other charges which he pleaded not guilty.

Here is the latest top stories from Press TV on March 9, 2021.

Amnesty says the Nigerian government is desperately attempting to cover up the killing of a dozen citizens during peaceful protests in Nigeria’s biggest city of Lagos last October. 

Police in Nigeria shoot dead at least two protesters demonstrating against the continued detention of Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky and his wife, Mallimah Zeenat.

A Judge in Nigeria has ordered the wife of Ebrahim Zakzaky be taken to a government hospital for proper treatment for COVID-19.

Nigerian people have demanded the immediate release of prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky during protest rallies in Abuja held on the fifth anniversary of the Zaria massacre.

The Nigerian military issues a warning as protests sweep across the West African country over years of recurring police brutality.

Nigerian police forces have shot and killed a secondary school student as they opened fire on supporters of Sheikh Zakzaky in the country’s northwestern state of Kaduna.

A Nigerian court has discharged and acquitted one hundred members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria.