LATEST: Reps adjourn abruptly as protesting Shiites reportedly storm NASS

The House of Representatives on Wednesday abruptly ended its sitting after the presiding officer announced that protesting Shiites had crashed into a gate of the National Assembly.

The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yusuf Lasun, announced that the protesters, members of the Shiite Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) crashed into the first gate of the National Assembly.

The development forced the legislators to abruptly adjourn their plenary which was on before the announcement.

Members of the IMN have held regular protests to demand the release of their leader since December 2015.
Their leader, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, was arrested along with his wife after soldiers killed hundreds of IMN.