NIGERIA COURT SENTENCES HOUSEWIFE TO DEATH BY HANGING

a Bauchi High Court sentenced Hussaina Muhammad, 23, a housewife, to death by hanging for killing her two year old step son Tajuddeen Muhammad. In his judgment, Justice Musa Liman said the court was convinced by the voluntary confessional statement made by the accused and the evidence of the five prosecution witnesses. Muhammad, mother of two children, was arrested and charged to court by the police in August 2003 for killing her step son in Azare town of Katagum local government area.