Tag: Yahaya Sharif-Aminu
Appeal Court orders retrial of Kano singer Sharif-Aminu sentenced to death...
The Court of Appeal in Kano has ordered that Kano Singer, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy be retried, effectively upholding...
Court nullifies Kano singer’s death sentence, orders fresh trial
A Kano State High Court on Thursday nullified the judgement of an Upper Sharia Court sentencing singer Yahaya Sharif-Aminu to death for blaspheming against...
Blasphemy: Court reserves judgement in Kano singer’s case
A State High Court in Kano has reserved judgement in an appeal filed by singer Yahaya Sharif-Aminu over a death sentence handed to him...
Blasphemy: UN experts call for release of Kano singer sentenced to...
The United Nations human rights experts have called on Nigerian authorities to release singer Yahaya Sharif-Aminu who was sentenced to death for blaspheming Prophet...
Falana drags Nigeria to African rights commission over Kano singer’s death...
Human rights lawyer Femi Falana has petitioned the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in The Gambia over the death sentence handed to...
Blasphemy: Ebenezer Obey, Audu Maikori, others plead with Ganduje over Kano...
A group known as the Nigerian Music Industry Collective has appealed to Kano State Governor Abdulahi Ganduje not to sign the death warrant against...
Blasphemy: Kano singer appeals death sentence
Kano-based singer Yahaya Sharif-Aminu has filed an appeal against the death sentence handed to him by a Shari’a Court for blaspheming Prophet Muhammad.
Mr Sharif-Aminu,...
Blasphemy: Falana finally gets case details of Kano singer
Kano State Judiciary says it has handed over certified copies of the Sharia Court judgment to rights lawyer Femi Falana to enable him appeal...
Blasphemy: Court officials delay Yahaya Sharif-Aminu’s appeal
Attempts on Tuesday by singer Yahaya Sharif-Aminu to appeal the death sentence given to him was stalled again on Tuesday as officials of the...
Blasphemy: COSON calls for pardon of Kano singer Yahaya Sharif-Aminu
The Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON) has appealed for the pardon of the 22-year-old musician in Kano State Yahaya Sharif-Aminu who was recently sentenced...