Hanging

An Upper Shari’a  Court sitting in Kano, on Monday, sentenced a 38-year-old man, Shafi’u Abubakar to death by hanging and 150 strokes of cane for setting a mosque on fire and killing 23 people. Abubakar, who lives in Gezawa Local…
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Justice Nwosu-Iheme of a FCT High Court Wuse Zone 2 in Abuja on Monday sentenced the husband of late gospel singer, Osinachi, Peter Nwachukwu, to death by hanging. Nwachukwu was found guilty of culpable homicide resulting in the death…
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Three persons, identified as John Moses, Yakubu Mohammed and Mustapha Musa, have been sentenced to death by hanging and surgical Castration following two count charges of rape in Kaduna. The Ministry of Human Services and Social…
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An Osun State High Court sitting in Ede has convicted and sentenced five men to death by hanging for the kidnap and murder of Alhaji Ibrahim Adamu, a Fulani man. The convicts – Ibrahim Issa, Lateef Bello, Abdul Ramon Soliu, Bello…
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A Kano State High Court has convicted and sentenced five members of Vigilante group to death by hanging for extrajudicial killing against a 17-year-old victim, Ahmed Musa. SOLACEBASE reports that the five convicted persons include…
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The Suspended Police Officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police Drambi Vandi has been found guilty of the Christmas day killing of Lagos property Lawyer, Omobolanle Raheem. He has now been sentenced to death by hanging for the crime. …
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A Kano High Court on Thursday sentenced one Sagiru Abdullahi, 29, to death by hanging for stabbing his stepmother Zainab Dan’azumi, 55, to death. The court had earlier convicted Abdullahi of Kurmawa Quarters, Kano, on a one-count charge of…
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An upper Shari'a Court sitting in Kano under Khadi Aliyu Muhammad Kani on Monday sentenced one Yahaya Sharif Aminu Sharifai found guilty of Blasphemy on Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) on a social media handle through his posts to death by hanging.…
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An FCT High Court on Monday sentenced Maryam Sanda, the woman who stabbed her husband to death, Bilyaminu, son of a former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Haliru Bello, to death by hanging. Delivering judgment,…
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