A musician who was sentenced to death for allegedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad was given a new trial by the Court of Appeal in Kano on Wednesday. Aminu Yahaya-Sharif, a…
Read MoreThe Senate has approved death sentence for abduction, wrongful restraints or wrongful confinement for ransom. The upper chamber also approved 30 years jail term for anybody that colluded with an…
Read MoreThe Ogun State Government Tuesday, lifted the moratorium on the death sentence appropriately prescribed for deserving criminal cases. According to a statement by the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice,…
Read MorePakistan government has sentenced Taimoor Raza to death over a series of Facebook posts. On Saturday, Raza, 30, became the first person to receive a death sentence in a Pakistan…
Read Moreby Dolapo Adelana A Lagos State High Court in Igbosere has sentenced to die by hanging two men, Ezekiel Eloka and Echezona Nwabufor for the murder of a postgraduate student,…
Read Moreby Dolapo Adelana A Federal Capital Territory High Court on Thursday found two former police officers, Ezekiel Acheneje and Baba Emmanuel, guilty for their roles in the killing of six…
Read MoreDylann Roof, the man who killed nine people at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015 was on Wednesday sentenced to death by a Federal Judge as recommended…
Read MoreFollowing the brutal clash between the Nigerian army and the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (Shiite sect) in December 2015, the Kaduna State Government, on Thursday, prayed a high court to…
Read MoreFollowing Friday's affirmation of the death sentence passed on the General Overseer of Christian Praying Assembly (CPA) Chukwuemeka Ezeugo (aka Rev. King), by the Supreme Court, members of his church…
Read Moreby Chinwe Okafor So picture this. A man is about to be murdered for a gruesome crime and guess what he went ahead to do with the aim of fulfilling…
Read Moreby Chinwe Okafor The Indonesian government ruled the execution of four Nigerians amongst others, and after much plea, the date has been set for April 29. The men were convicted…
Read Moreby Chidi Okoye Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, has implored the Nigerian military top brass to re-consider the death sentence passed on the 54 soldiers for misconduct in the ongoing fight…
Read Moreby Chidi Okoye A Nigerian has been handed a death sentence for attempting to smuggle drugs into Malaysia. The man, 35-year-old Abuchi Ngwoke was sentenced to death on Tuesday, 25 November, by…
Read Moreby James Sambo Barely two weeks after the sentencing of 12 soldiers to death for mutiny, another set of 60 soldiers will be arraigned before a General Court Martial by military…
Read Moreby Ibanga Isine Almost every delegate agreed that corruption is the mother of all the problems confronting Nigeria. It was funny and equally heart-breaking to see delegates who had opportunities…
Read Moreby 'Jola Sotubo A police officer and two colleagues have found themselves on the wrong side of the law after being convicted of murder. The three officers were found guilty…
Read Moreby 'Jola Sotubo The entire nation was thrown into shock when the news emerged in 2011 of a man in Lagos who had brutally murdered his banker wife. Akolade Arowolo…
Read Moreby 'Jola Sotubo Akolade Arowolo was yesterday sentenced to death for the June 24, 2011 murder of his wife Titilayo, a banker. The case was a particularly notorious one because…
Read Moreby 'Jola Sotubo Two young men in Osun have been sentenced to death after they were found guilty of the murder of a teenage girl. Suraju Olarewaju and Lekan Olatayo,…
Read MorePhoenix Feeley shows off her right to go topless in Coney Island. A topless rights advocate was sentenced to 16 days in a New Jersey jail after refusing to pay…
Read Moreby 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…
Read Moreby Rachel Ogbu The Supreme Court upheld the death sentence passed on a policeman who choked his 12-year-old wife to death for rituals. Yesterday, Usman Maigari’s case transferred from the…
Read Moreby Rachel Ogbu Four convicted criminals have been executed in Edo State, government officials confirmed on Monday. The criminals had been on death row for years but were recently executed…
Read Moreby Rachel Ogbu Photo: naijamayor.com Still hoping for redemption, the General Overseer of the Christian Praying Assembly, Chukwuemeka Ezeugo known better as Rev. King, has yet again appealed to the Supreme…
Read Moreby Rachel Ogbu It's hopes dashed for Chukwuemeka Ezeugo, the notorious Lagos preacher popularly known as "Rev. King" according to new reports . We reported this morning that he was to…
Read Moreby Rachel Ogbu Today, February 1, the Court of Appeal in Lagos is scheduled to announce its decision on the death sentence passed on Chukwuemeka Ezeugo known popularly as Rev. King,…
Read MoreArewa Consultative Forum’s demand for death penalty for corruption cases stirred a controversy on Wednesday. While the Ndigbo youths in Ohanaeze were divided on the propriety or otherwise of the…
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