The spokesperson of the Nigeria Police Force, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, has dismissed claims that persons arrested in connection with the killing of Deborah Samuel in Sokoto state in May 2022, have been released. The 200-level Home Economics student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, was stoned and burnt to death on May 12, 2022, by irate youths including some people believed to be her classmates over allegations of blasphemy. Many Nigerians are of the opinions that the …
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Kano-born atheist, Mubarak Bala, has been sentenced to 24 years imprisonment after pleading guilty to all the 18-count charges leveled against him. Bala, who is the president of the Humanist Association of Nigeria, was arrested at his home in Kaduna on April 28, 2020 and taken to Kano, where complaints of blasphemy and incitement were lodged against him. He had earlier posted comments critical of Islam, Allah and Prophet Muhammad on Facebook, causing outrage among Muslim. One of …
Factional leader of the Boko Haram terrorist group, Abubakar Shekau, has reportedly released a new audio faulting the death sentence a Sharia court in Kano state handed to a 22-year-old singer, Yahaya Sharif Aminu, in the state over his blasphemous statement against Prophet Mohammed. Aminu who is a member of the Islamic Tijjaniya sect and Faidha group, composed a song blaspheming Prophet Mohammed and circulated it via WhatsApp in March 2020. Residents of the state got angry when they heard the song and …