Tag: Maryam Sanda

Nigerian Supreme Court upholds Maryam Sanda’s death penalty

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Nigerian Supreme Court has on Friday upheld the death sentence imposed on Maryam Sanda, daughter-in-law of a former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), over the killing of her husband, Bilyamin Bello. Maryam was convicted on January 27, 2020, by an Abuja High Court, and was subsequently sentenced to death by hanging after […]

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Tinubu reverses Maryam Sanda’s pardon, to remain in prison

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Due to the backlash from Nigerians for granting a presidential pardon to Maryam Sanda, who was convicted and sentenced to death in 2020 for killing Bilyaminu Bello, her husband, President Bola Tinubu has now reversed the absolute presidential pardon earlier granted to her. In a new directive contained in an official gazette released on Wednesday […]

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