NIGERIA: SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE

Justice Francis Fedode Tabai of the Nigerian Supreme Court upheld the death sentence passed on Kano State-based Kannywood actress, Rabi Ismail, by a Kano State High Court and the Court of Appeal in the Kaduna Division, for allegedly killing her boyfriend, Ibrahim Auwalu, in 2002.
She was not in court when the ruling was made and is believed to be in a prison in northern Nigeria.
The court ruled that Ismail drugged Ibrahim with a sweet, before drowning him in a dam in Kano.