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Nigerian to die for drug smuggling in Malaysia

After a three year trial, a 37 year-old Nigerian , Ibe Godwin Uzochukwu has been…

Mauritania court condemns man to death for blasphemy

NOUAKCHOTT (AFP) - Mauritania has delivered its first death sentence for apostasy since independence in…

Pakistan readies execution stakes for 500 terror convicts

Pakistan plans to execute around 500 militants in coming weeks, officials said Monday, after the…

Nigerian court martial sentences 54 soldiers to death

Fifty-four soldiers have been sentenced to death by firing squad on Wednesday by a Military…

Bangladesh slams death sentence on fugitive mayor

Bangladeshi war crimes court Thursday sentenced a fugitive mayor to death for mass murder and…

No reprieve for Bangladeshi Islamist leader: to die by hanging

Bangladesh's highest court Monday upheld the death sentence against a leader of the largest Islamist…

Media tycoon to be hanged for war crimes

A media tycoon who is a key figure in Bangladesh's largest Islamist party was sentenced…

5 Indians, 3 Sri Lankans sentenced to death for drug smuggling

A Sri Lankan court sentenced five Indians and three locals to death on Thursday after…

Leader of Bangladeshi Islamist party to hang for war crimes

A special Bangladeshi court on Wednesday handed the death sentence to the leader of the…

A Crisis Of National Command

By Osuolale Alalade A nine-member military tribunal headed by Brigadier-General Chukwuemeka Okonkwo, sitting in Abuja,…