The Court of Appeal sitting in Kano on Monday issued an order to the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) to produce Sheikh Abduljabar Kabara before the court to pursue his appeal. The Islamic scholar is remanded in prison custody…
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Kano-based Islamic cleric, Abduljabbar Nasir Kabara, has petitioned the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, alleging that judicial and government authorities deliberately obstructed his efforts to appeal the death…
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The Court of Appeal in Ilorin, Kwara State, has upheld the death sentences imposed on five men convicted over the 2018 Offa bank robbery, dismissing their appeals as lacking merit. ‎‎The Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) in the state,…
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The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), Kano State Command, has clarified that the recent transfer of inmate Malam Abduljabbar Nasiru Kabara from the Kurmawa Custodial Centre in Kano to the Kuje Custodial Centre in Abuja is a standard…
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A recent viral claim alleging that a 22-year-old woman named Zainab Muhamadu is facing the death penalty in Zamfara State for converting to Christianity is entirely false, according to a detailed investigation by PRNigeria. The…
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The South-West Coordinator of National Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment (NICRAT), Prof. Olusegun Alatise, says cancer is no longer a death sentence, calling for improvement in its care quality. Alatise stated this at a…
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The Court of Appeal in Akure, Ondo State, has upheld the death sentence earlier handed out by the High Court in Osogbo, Osun State, to Rahmon Adedoyin, an industrialist, over his involvement in the killing of Timothy Adegoke, an Obafemi…
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A Kano State High Court Division of Appeal on Monday, fixed May 9, to hear a suit filed by a Kano Cleric, Sheikh Abduljabbar Kabara, who was sentenced to death by hanging for blasphemy. NAN reports that an Upper Shari’a Court on Dec.15,…
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The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, has recommended capital punishment for vandals and theft of power infrastructure. The minister said this in Abuja on Monday while reacting to the frequent vandalism of power infrastructure. He…
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Justice Hakeem Oshodi, on Tuesday, sentenced one Clement Ododomu to death by hanging and one Tiwei Monday to 16 years in a correctional centre. Oshodi delivered the judgement after careful consideration of facts before the court and the…
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