Nigeria, Sept. 6 -- In Kano, northern Nigeria's commercial nerve centre, at least nine persons were condemned to death after being found guilty of committing various offences from January to August 2020.

However, the spokesperson for the state's ministry of justice, Baba Jibo-Ibrahim, told PREMIUM TIMES that none of these convicts on death row has been executed as they have appealed the judgement of the initial courts.

According to BBC Hausa Service, seven of the convicts were found guilty of homicide, one person guilty of rape, and another was guilty of blasphemy against Prophet Muhammad.

PREMIUM TIMES had reported that the state's governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, said he would sign the death sentence for the execution of Yahaya Aminu, a ...