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Court Sentences Three Men To Death For Killing Osun Widow For Money Ritual
An Osun State High Court has sentenced three men to death by hanging for killing a 53-year-old woman, Asiata Yekeen, for money ritual in the Ile-Ogbo community. The…
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Abdulrahman Bello Sentenced To Death For Killing Kwara Student, Hafsoh Lawal
A High Court in Ilorin, Kwara State, has sentenced Abdulrahman Bello to death by hanging for the brutal killing of Hafsoh Lawal, a final-year student at the College…
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Court Sentences Two To Death, One To Life In Prison For Ritual Killing In Ogun
An Ogun State High Court in Abeokuta has sentenced three men over the gruesome murder of 16-year-old girl, Sofia Okeowo in the Kugba area of Abeokuta South Local…
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Gospel Singer, Oluwatimileyin Ajayi Sentenced To Death For Killing Girlfriend Salome Adaidu
A High Court in Lafia, Nasarawa State, has sentenced gospel musician Oluwatimileyin Ajayi to death by hanging for the brutal murder of a corps member, Salome Adaidu. KanyiDaily…
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Ebonyi Man Sentenced To Death For Killing Teen Who Exposed Their Homosexual Relationship
A 30-year-old man, Boniface Abraham Edigbo, has been sentenced to death by hanging for killing an 18-year-old secondary school student, Ogbonna Joshua, in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State. It was…
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Man Sentenced To Death By Hanging For Killing 23 People In Kano Mosque Fire
A Kano Upper Shari’a Court has sentenced 38-year-old Shafi’u Abubakar to death by hanging for setting fire to a mosque during early morning prayers, which led to the…
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Court Sentences Ebonyi LG Chairman’s Cousin, 3 Others To Death By Hanging For Murder
An Ebonyi State High Court in the Ohaukwu Judicial Division has sentenced four men to death by hanging for the brutal killing of 26-year-old businessman, Chinonso Elom, popularly…
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Court Sentences BRT Driver Andrew Ominikoron To Death For Killing Bamise Ayanwola
A Lagos High Court at Tafawa Balewa Square has sentenced Andrew Ominikoron, a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) driver, to death by hanging for the murder of 22-year-old fashion…
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Kwara Court Sentences Five To Death For Offa Robbery, Six Years After The Bank Heist
Justice Haleema Salman of the Kwara State High Court in Ilorin has sentenced five men to death by hanging for their involvement in the 2018 Offa robbery. The…
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Appeal Court Frees Kano Singer Sentenced To Death For Blasphemy, Orders His Retrial
The Court of Appeal in Kano has discharged and acquitted a singer, Yahaya Aminu-Sharif, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy against Prophet Muhammed. Yahaya Aminu Sharif KanyiDaily recalls…
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Lagos Pastor And Accomplice Sentenced To Death For Using 7-Year-Old For Ritual
An Ikeja Special Offences Court has sentenced a pastor, Erinmole Adetokunbo, and his accomplice, Adedoyin Oyekanmi to death for killing a seven-year-old boy for ritual purposes. Pastor Erinmole…
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Court Sentences Uduak Akpan To Death By Hanging For Killing Iniubong Umoren
Akwa Ibom State High Court in Uyo has sentenced Uduak Frank Akpan to death by hanging for raping and murdering a female job seeker, Iniubong Umoren. Uduak Akpan…
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Man Sentenced To Death For Killing Girlfriend Over Alleged Infidelity In Akwa Ibom
Akwa Ibom State High Court in Uyo, the state capital, has sentenced a 31-year-old man, Ubon Udo Edet, to death by hanging for killing his 22-year-old girlfriend, Emem…
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Policeman Sentenced To Death By Hanging For Killing Driver Over N100 Bribe In Rivers
A dismissed policeman, James Imhalu has been sentenced to death for murder by a High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. James Imhalu Sentenced To Death In Rivers…
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Maid Who Killed Ex-Governor Igbinedion’s 85-Year-Old Mum, Sentenced To Death By Hanging
A 25-year-old housemaid, Dominion Okoro, who killed her 85-year-old Madam, Maria Igbinedion, the mother of Edo state former governor, Lucky Igbinedion, has been sentenced to death by a…
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Lagos Court Sentences Danish Man To Death For Killing His Nigerian Wife, Daughter
A Danish man, Peter Nielsen, who was accused of killing his Nigerian wife and daughter, has been sentenced to death by the Lagos High Court sitting at Tafawa Balewa…