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Nigerian Man to Hang in Malaysia Over Step-Grandson’s Murder

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A Malaysian High Court has sentenced 48-year-old Nigerian National Ibekwe Emeka Augustine to death by hanging after finding him guilty of murdering his four-year-old step-grandson by throwing the child from the third floor of an apartment in the Setapak district of Kuala Lumpur. Justice K. Muniandy convicted Augustine under Section 302 of the Malaysian Penal…

Supreme Court Overrules Tinubu, Confirms Death Sentence for Maryam Sanda

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Nigeria’s Supreme Court has reinstated the death sentence handed to Maryam Sanda, overturning the Presidential clemency earlier granted by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and bringing a dramatic end to one of the Country’s most widely followed homicide cases. Sanda, daughter-in-law to a former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, had been convicted on January…