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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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Who deserves pardon: Saro-Wiwa or Buhari?, By Festus Adedayo

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At No 9, Rumuibekwe Road in Port Harcourt on November 10, 1995, the devil sat in a corner, having a saturnalia. No one could see him. He wore dark goggles, donning the uniform of a five-star Army General, wrapped up in a huge celebratory mood. His arch-enemy, Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni activists […]

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