Nigeria has launched military campaigns against bandits in the northwest before and even sought amnesty deals to coax them to abandon hideouts deep in the region’s vast forests.
Nigeria’s opposition accused the government of detaining its activists and stuffing ballot boxes in the north on Friday, a day before a presidential election in Africa’s most populous country. The Action Congress and All Nigeria Peoples Party said the tactics were a repeat of widespread abuses that marred a state election last weekend.
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The prosecution of two Nigerian men who face the death penalty after being accused of sodomy suffered a setback on Thursday when a second police witness said that he had not actually seen the pair having sex. Police Constable Garba Umar was the second officer to admit that he had not witnessed the alleged act.
A Nigerian Islamic court granted bail on Wednesday to two alleged homosexuals who face the death penalty and whose case has once more drawn international attention to their country’s rights record. The pair were arrested by police in June after witnesses alleged that they had been having sex in a public toilet.
Two Nigerian men appeared in court on Wednesday charged with committing sodomy and could now face being stoned to death after they were caught together in a toilet in this northern Muslim city. A senior United Nations envoy has called on Nigeria to drop homosexuality from the list of crimes punishable by death under sharia law.
Baby in her arms, a single mother condemned by an Islamic court to death by stoning appeared at a courthouse in northern Nigeria on Wednesday for an appeal of a sentence that has drawn an international outcry.
An Islamic court in northern Nigeria on Tuesday adjourned, for the second time, an appeal hearing against the sentence to death by stoning of mother of three, Amina Lawal.
A Nigerian Islamic court postponed the start of mother-of-three Amina Lawal’s appeal against being stoned to death at a brief hearing here on Tuesday.