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Azeez May 3, 2017

No prisoners’ exchange for Nigerians on death row abroad – FG

by Azeez Adeniyi The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama on Wednesday said the Nigerians on death row in other countries abroad cannot be repatriated home through the Prisoners Exchange…

Oludolapo Adelana April 18, 2017

Lagos to execute Reverend King, others

by Dolapo Adelana The Lagos State Government has said it would sign the death warrant, for the execution of the General Overseer of the Christian Praying Assembly, Rev. Chukwuemeka Ezeugo,…

Kolapo Olapoju May 23, 2015

Buhari may pardon soldiers on death row – Femi Falana

by Kolapo Olapoju Leading lawyer and human rights activist, Femi Falana, says that President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, may commute the sentences of soldiers on death row. In a telephone interview with Punch…

Kolapo Olapoju October 7, 2014

Spared from death: Delta state governor pardons 77-year-old death row inmate

by Iyobosa Omorogie Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has granted a total pardon to a 77-year-old man, Dickson Umukoro, and two other condemned inmates in commemoration of the nation’s 54th independence…

September 9, 2013

Good bargain? Saudi Arabia sends 1,239 death row inmates to fight in Syria with full pardon

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia with French President Francois Hollande, who went to the desert kingdom in early November for talks about Syria and Iran. Saudi Arabia has sent death-row…

August 22, 2013

In love with a ‘dead man’: Meet the woman, 47, set to marry 39-year-old death row prisoner

Mother-of-one Anna Curtis has found love again after six years - in a murderer on death row. The 47-year-old from Mitcham, London, sends kinky letters to prisoner William Speer, 39,…

July 12, 2013

Lagos undecided on death penalty for death row inmates – Ade Ipaye

by Rachel Ogbu As Edo State continues to execute the death sentence on convicted criminals, the Lagos State Government on the other hand said it had not decided whether or…

July 11, 2013

Death penalty: “We have a right to define what we regard as our national values” – Oshiomhole

by Rachel Ogbu Reacting to human rights activists and campaigners on the issue of the death penalty, Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole has insisted that he would apply fully the…

June 25, 2013

No going back: Death row prisoner to be executed by firing squad in Edo

A death row prisoner in Nigeria is due to be executed by firing squad later this week after prison authorities dragged him to the gallows where they hanged four other…

February 3, 2013

“Stay of execution”: President Jonathan intervenes on behalf of Nigerians on death row in Indonesia

by Rachel Ogbu In a meeting with the Indonesian President, Susilo Yudhoyono recently, President Goodluck Jonathan requested for a stay of execution of Nigerians on death role in Indonesia, reports claim. On…

December 3, 2012

Report: 970 inmates are waiting to die in Nigerian prisons

970 prisoners on death row are currently languishing in the nation’s prisons awaiting their execution. They comprise 951 males and 19 females. Findings revealed that the inmates had been on…

November 5, 2012

“I am convinced that they need to die,” Oshiomhole insists on men who killed and dismembered victims

by Isi Esene Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole has insisted that the two death-row convicts in the state, Daniel Nsofor and Osayinwinde Agbomien, deserve to die and he owes no apology…

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