UN Decries Attacks On Journalists, Activists In Pakistan
The United Nation voiced alarm Tuesday at growing attacks on journalists and activists in Pakistan, often amid cries of blasphemy, urging Islamabad to protect...
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NBA Wades Into Case Of Kano Musician Sentenced To Death For Blasphemy
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has waded into the reported case of a musician, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu who was sentenced to death in Kano State...
Trial Opens Over Charlie Hebdo Terror Attacks That Stunned France
Fourteen people accused of helping jihadist gunmen storm the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket went on trial Wednesday, five years...
Death Sentence Of Kano Singer Must Be Quashed – Amnesty International
Global human rights organisation, Amnesty International has condemned the death sentence passed on a Kano-based singer, Yahaya Sharif. Reacting via its Twitter handle, the...
Nigerians React As Kano Court Sentences Musician To Death
Several Nigerians have reacted to the judgment of an Upper Sharia Court in Kano which on Monday sentenced a musician, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, to death...
Pope Francis apologizes for slapping woman’s hand
Pope Francis has apologized for slapping a woman’s hand as he greeted pilgrims at the Vatican on New Year’s Eve. In his new year message...