VIETNAM: NIGERIAN SENTENCED TO DEATH

a court in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, sentenced Nigerian man Nnaji David Ete, 33, to death for trafficking 11 kilos of heroin into the country and then on to China over several years. His Vietnamese wife was jailed for life on the same charge, while three other Nigerian men involved in the cross-border drugs ring were sentenced to up to 20 years in prison.