31 January 2012 :
a judge in Nigeria has sentenced a former dictator's right-hand man to death over the killing of a politician's wife.Judge Mojisola Dada at Lagos' Court of Appeals ruled that Maj. Hamza Al-Mustapha should be hanged. He was accused of orchestrating the 1996 machine-gun killing of the wife of Moshood Abiola, a flamboyant businessman widely believed to be have won an annulled 1993 presidential election.
Al-Mustapha, the right-hand man for the feared military dictator Sani Abacha, has spent 13 years in prison awaiting various trials accusing him of murder in Africa's most populous nation.
(Sources: Ap, 30/1/2012)
