Soldiers disrupt shiite's Pro Palestinian protest in Kaduna!

Men of the Nigerian army reportedly engaged in gun fire exchanged with members of the Shiite Islamic group in Zaria, Kaduna State, residents said.

Eye witnesses account has it that the troops clashed for more than an hour with thousands of Shiite Muslims,  leaving many injured, some reports has it that about five members of the Shiite group including Mahumd Ibraheem Zakzaky, the son of Sheik Ibraheem Zakzaky were killed in the clash.

It was started that shootings started after the soldiers restricted the procession of the group during the annual  ‘Quds Day’ procession which this year was in solidarity with Palestinians under Isreali attacks in Gaza, around PZ on Sabon-gari area of the town.

Although details are still sketchy, a security source said a full investigation is underway to determine the cause of the clash. 

In a statement allegedly issued by Ibrahim Musa, editor of the movement’s weekly magazine Almizan, and sent to the New York office of SaharaReporters, the Islamic group accused the military of killing several of its members with impunity. 

The statement also claimed that more than 40 other members sustained serious injuries.

“Reports reaching our news desk now indicated that some soldiers of the Nigerian army have opened fire on the tail end of the Quds procession held after Jumaat prayers in Zaria, Kaduna State. The procession, which took off from Sabon Gari Jumaat Mosque, reached Kofar Doka peacefully with no incident. However some soldiers attacked the procession [at the] PZ junction in Zaria.

“They shot Mahmud Ibraheem Zakzaky, but [his body] was taken away by the Muslim brothers. But several [other] Muslim brothers were shot by the security agents.

“As at the time of writing this report, there is no confirmation on the number of Muslim brothers shot or killed by the soldiers, but our says say five people were killed. The Quds procession was held today peacefully in more than 10 Nigerian cities. Why the attack on the Zaria procession?

“[The] latest report on the attack by soldiers on Quds peaceful procession is that ten Muslim brothers were gunned down by the soldiers, among them Mahmud Ibraheem Zakzaky, son of Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky, and a Muslim sister with her child on her back. There are over 40 Muslim brothers’ casualties with different degrees of gunshots by the soldiers. The story is still unfolding, with reinforcement of soldiers coming from Kaduna, according to our news sources.”

As at the time of publishing this report, it was said that tension is still high in Zaria.

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Crime against the female gender- Isis denies ordering that all girls in Mosul undergo FGM!

Jihadi extremists who have taken over the Iraqi city of Mosul have denied ordering families to have their daughters undergo female genital mitulation in order to prevent "immorality" or face severe punishment, as claimed by a senior UN humanitarian official on Thursday.

Supporters of the Islamic State (Isis), previously known as the Islamic State in Irag and the Levant, dismissed the story as propaganda based on a fake document – though residents of Mosul, as well as Kurdish officials, insisted it was true.

The claim about enforced FGM came from the UN's deputy humanitarian coordinator in Iraq, Jacqueline Badcock, who told reporters that up to 4 million women and girls aged 11-46 faced the risk of genital mutilation. "This is something very new for Iraq, particularly in this area, and is of grave concern and does need to be addressed," she said. "This is a fatwa from Isis. This is not the will of Iraqi people, or the women of Iraq in these vulnerable areas covered by the terrorists."

Reports about the issue have been circulating in Iraqi media for the past few days. On Wednesday a Kurdish website, BasNews reported that the fatwa had been issued by the self-proclaimed "Caliph" of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as a "gift" to the people of Mosul. BasNews said on Thursday that it stood by its story. "Of course Isis would deny this," the editor, Hawar Abdulrazaq, told the Guardian.

Badcock's comments came in a briefing by videolink from her base in Irbil, capital of the Kurdish regional government, to reporters at the UN headquarters in Geneva.

But plans for a statement by the UK international development secretary, Justine Greening, were dropped as doubts grew about the accuracy of the claim.

Suspicions about its veracity were based partly on the fact that FGM is not required by Islam and is not prevalent in Iraq. It is most widespread in Egypt, Sudan and east Africa.

A document circulating on social media purporting to be the Isis fatwa was in fact dated July 2013, originated in Aleppo, Syria, and was widely described as having being photoshopped. It appeared on Thursday on the website of the Saudi-owned TV channel al-Arabiya.

Ahmed Obaydi, a spokesman for Mosul police, told BasNews: "Baghdadi's decision to have all women circumcised is, as he claims, to prevent immorality and promote Islamic attitudes among Muslims. The decision was made by Baghdadi as a 'gift' for people in Mosul." But Mohammed, a local journalist, told the Guardian he knew no one who had been told by Isis that their female relatives should undergo FGM. "This is mainly media hype with no substance," he said.

Isis supporters quickly dismissed the story as a hoax. "If Isis responds to every lie and rumour they will not be able to control all these areas you hear about," tweeted one. "Please ask UN to prove their claims before you hear from us." The same Twitter account, whose name is derived from an Arabic word meaning "monster", contains multiple images of the decapitated heads of Syrian soldiers taken in the Raqqa areas near the Iraqi border.

According to the Iraqi paper al-Mustaqbal, which also reported on the alleged fatwa earlier this week, the practice of FGM is alien to Iraqi society except the Kurdish provinces. Worldwide, more than 130 million girls and women have undergone FGM.

The FGM story broke against a background of wider concern about the situation in Mosul, whose Christian community has been forced to flee under threat of forced conversion or execution by jihadists who have turned churches into mosques and confiscated property.

Iraq's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, has lambasted Isis for its "criminality and terrorism". Last weekend Isis gave the city's Christians a stark choice: convert to Islam, pay a religious tax, or face death.

Algeria airliner feared crashed on flight from Burkina Faso!

Update on the passenger plane carrying 118 people:

The plane is feared to have crashed on a flight from Burkina Faso to the Algerian capital Algiers.

According to reports from officials, contact with the Air Algerie flight was lost over the Sahara as it crossed Mali in bad weather.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said the plane, which has 51 French citizens aboard, "probably crashed".

There have been reports of wreckage being found by French military drone spotted the wreckage from the air, located at the edge of the desert, but they are in locations up to 400km (250 miles) apart. 



The plane reportedly crashed in one piece rather than breaking up in the air. 

Contact with Flight AH 5017, which was reportedly chartered from Spanish airline Swiftair, was lost about 50 minutes after take-off from Ouagadougou, Air Algerie said.

The pilot had contacted Niger's control tower in Niamey to change course because of a sandstorm, officials say. Cause of the crash due to bad whether.

There were 118 passengers from different nationalities among whom are 51 French citizens. One of the black boxes recovered so far.

Emir of Kano visits President Jonathan!

Northern Traditional Rulers including the Emir of Kano Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, led by the Sultan of Sokoto Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, came to break the Ramadan fast with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa- State House- Abuja on Wednesday.

India doctors remove 232 teeth from boy's mouth!

Doctors in India have extracted 232 teeth from the mouth of a 17-year-old boy in a seven-hour operation.

Dr Sunanda Dhiware head of Mumbai's JJ Hospital's dental department, told the BBC that the teenager Ashik Gavai, was brought in with a swelling in his right jaw. After he had been suffering for 18 months and traveled to the city from his village after local doctors failed to identify the cause of the problem.

"Ashik's malaise was diagnosed as a complex composite odontoma where a single gum forms lots of teeth. It's a sort of benign tumour," Dr Dhiware said.

"At first, we couldn't cut it out so we had to use the basic chisel and hammer to take it out.

"Once we opened it, little pearl-like teeth started coming out, one-by-one. Initially, we were collecting them, they were really like small white pearls. But then we started to get tired. We counted 232 teeth," she added.

The surgery, conducted on Monday, involved two surgeons and two assistants. The team was led by Dr Vandana Thorawade who heads the hospital's ENT (ear, nose and throat) department. Ashik now has 28 teeth.

Describing Ashik's case as "very rare", Dr Dhiware said she had "not seen anything like this before in my 30-year career", but said she was "thrilled to get such an exciting case".

"According to medical literature available on the condition, it is known to affect the upper jaw and a maximum of 37 teeth have been extracted from the tumour in the past. But in Ashik's case, the tumour was found deep in the lower jaw and it had hundreds of teeth."

Ashik's father Suresh Gavai was quoted by the Mumbai Mirror as saying that his son complained of severe pain a month ago.

"I was worried that it may turn out to be cancer so I brought him to Mumbai," he said.

Sudanese 'apostasy' woman arrives Rome en route New-York!

The Sudanese woman Meriam Ibrahim, who was condemned to death for converting from Islam to Christianity, reportedly arrived in Rome with her family on Thursday morning where they will stay for a few days before flying to New York.

According to reports, the 27-year-old, her husband and two children arrived at Rome's Ciampino airport at around 9.30am on a plane provided by the Italian government. 

Meriam was greeted at the airport by Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, his wife Agnese and Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini.

She was accompanied on the flight by Italy’s Deputy Foreign Minister Lapo Pistelli, who met with her on July 3rd and has been following the case closely.

Her stay in Italian was organized by the Italian government in collaboration with the Sudanese government. 

Ibrahim's arrival in the Italian capital follows a European Parliament resolution condemning her “degrading and inhumane treatment” and calling for legal reforms in Sudan. 

A spokesperson for the Italian government was reportedly not immediately available for comment.