A Nigerian man has been sentenced to death by stoning for sodomy, officials said on Thursday, only moments after single mother Amina Lawal had her stoning sentence for adultery lifted by another Islamic court.
The conviction of 20-year-old Jibrin Babaji on Tuesday for sleeping with three boys was made by a Sharia court in the northern Bauchi State, state officials said.
A spokesperson for the court, Bala Ahmed, said Babaji had been sentenced after having confessed to sexually molesting the boys at different times over the past year.
The announcement came minutes after the Sharia appeals court in Katsina State reversed the adultery conviction for 31-year-old Lawal, a divorced mother of four.
Her case has generated massive controversy and turned a global media spotlight on Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation and a multi-ethnic, multireligious state eager to rehabilitate its battered human rights reputation. — Sapa-AFP