Death By Hanging
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Justice Sika Aprioku of Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, yesterday, convicted and sentenced five people to death by hanging or injecting them with lethal substances until they are confirmed dead for murder and kidnapping.
8 Nov
At an Access to Justice in Nigeria parley, the Nigeria Correctional Service yesterday raised issues over 5,000 inmates who have been sentenced to death by hanging but have waited for decades without their sentences being carried out. The Controller-General, Nigerian Correctional Service (NC0S), Haliru Nababa, represented by Gimba Dumbulwa, Assistant Controller, Custody of the Service,…
10 Oct
It was justice at last for the family of Gbenga Raheem, yesterday, as a High Court, sitting in Tafa Balewa Square (TBS), Lagos, sentenced a dismissed Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Drambi Vandi, to death by hanging for killing Raheem’s pregnant wife, Omobolanle. Vandi at the Ajah under-bridge checkpoint on December 25, 2022, shot Omobolanle,…
31 Mar 2023
A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Kubwa has sentenced Yahuza Isah and Auwalu Mohammed to death by hanging for killing a tricycle rider.
22 Mar 2023
Justice Sika Henry-Aprioku of a Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has convicted and sentenced a man identified as Promise Thompson to death by hanging for armed robbery.