the High Court in central Nigeria’s Plateau State sentenced

the High Court in central Nigeria’s Plateau State sentenced 35-year-old Jacob Wakfan to death by hanging for murder after he confessed to luring the friend, Jurbi Danjuma, and stabbing him to death. After the crime in April 2000, Wakfan removed Danjuma's private parts and tongue, the judge said.
"The convict's desire to make quick money led him to commit this heinous and treacherous act," she said. Ritual killings are rampant in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country of 130 million people, where belief in witchcraft is widespread.