The IMN is headquartered at the spiritual center, Husainiyya Baqiyatullah, in Zaria with the group's numbers estimated around 5% of Nigeria's Muslim population of 100 million.
[3][4] While the main focus of the group is Islamic studies and enlightenment, Zakzaky has also encouraged his followers to pursue Western education and engage in charity work.
[6] The movement also gained a negative reputation by non-Shia Nigerians and by Shia secularists for their goals on turning Nigeria into an Islamic republic.
Islamic Movement Production is currently making an appeal to create a film on the life of Shaikh Uthman Ibn Fodio to better represent him as a religious scholar and revolutionary.
The creation of the foundation followed brutal attacks by the Military Dictatorship of Nigeria that resulted in the death of members and left 128 children as orphans.
The founder Shaikh Zakzaky emphasized women having equal and full participation in the movement and provided resources for this branch to be self dependent in organizing activities.
[14] The Sisters Forum has also staged protests calling for the release of Zakzaky and other members jailed by the Nigerian government and addressed the press, which was traditionally not allowed for women.
[16] A Madrassa is an institute of higher education that teaches Arabic grammar and literature, mathematics, logic, natural science, and Islamic theology and law.
The Fudiyyah Islamic Center hosts seminars, meetings, and conferences by all the branches of the movement on a weekly, biweekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.
[18] The AhlulBayt News Agency reported that Kaduna State government personnel demolished the Fudiyyah School in Zaria without issuing a warning.
The ISMA is also aiming to establish training schools, clinics, hospitals, research centers, and pharmacies and build a medical infrastructure.
[22] Members of this branch include nurses, pharmacists, doctors, laboratory scientists, biomedical engineers, community health workers, and First Aid responders as well as others.