Tag: death sentence

Good news for embattled Kano singer, Aminu Yahaya Sharif, as the appeal division of the Kano State High Court has ...

The Jigawa State High Court sitting in Ringim on Tuesday sentenced 29-year-old Orange seller, Mustapha Idrith to death by hanging ...

Governor Simon Bako Lalong of Plateau State has signed into law the anti-kidnapping, anti-land grabbing, cultism and other anti-violence related matters ...

Death sentence for a 34-year-old man who stabbed his pregnant girlfriend to death has been demanded by angry South Africans. ...

Ibekwe Emeka Augustine, a Nigerian man in Malaysia who threw his 4-year-old step-grandson out of a window from the 3rd ...

Maryam Sanda, the woman sentenced to death for killing her husband, has decided to approach the Supreme Court, in a ...

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has upheld the death sentence handed a mother of one, Maryam Sanda, convicted for ...

An Abeokuta High Court on Wednesday sentenced a 39-year-old mechanic, Musiliu Owolabi, to death by hanging for killing his lover, ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has called on Nigerian authorities to overturn the death sentence handed down to ...

A 27-year-old wrestler in Iran, Navid Afkari, Iranian champion wrestler, has been executed after being convicted of stabbing a security ...

The Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen, has advocated death penalty for rape and related offences. Mrs Tallen said this ...

Kano singer, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy has finally filed an appeal. This development was coming ...

Ibrahim Ibrahim, a Gusau-based cleric who was freed from death sentence in Saudi Arabia over drug trafficking charges has been ...

The United Kingdom has joined the call for observation of human rights in Kano on Wednesday as it opposes the ...

Multiple reports on social media and blogs had claimed that a Lagos High Court has sentenced notorious kidnap kingpin, Chikwudubem ...

The General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministries International, Apostle Johnson Suleman, has reacted to the death sentence handed to a ...

A Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere, Wednesday sentenced two armed robbery and rape convicts Williams Udoh and Ubong Isaiah ...

A Kaduna State High Court on Wednesday sentenced a man to death by hanging for raping a two-year-old girl to ...

An Ikeja High Court in Lagos yesterday sentenced a driver, Olalekan Hameed, to death by hanging for the December 1, ...

The Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) has dismissed report that Maryam Sanda had been granted presidential pardon. The Service Public Relations ...