Sokoto court sentences three to d8ath for terrorism

A Sokoto State High Court has sentenced three men, including a Nigerien, to d3ath by hanging, following their conviction on charges of terrorism and arms proliferation.

The convicts, Yusuf Muhammad (alias Sallau), a Nigeriene, Jabbi Alhaji Yalle, and Kabiru Muhammad were apprehended on 13th June, 2025, by the Department of State Services Counter-Terrorism Unit in connection with cross-border crimes, arms trafficking and terrorism.

Delivering judgment on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, Justice Bello found all three defendants guilty as charged and sentenced them to d3ath by hanging. 

The court also ordered the forfeiture of all monetary exhibits recovered from the convicts to the Federal Government.

The Sokoto sentencing came barely a week after a Federal High Court in Katsina sentenced to death a female arms courier, Hauwa’u Mukhtar, arrested by the DSS while transporting 438 rounds of ammunition to a bandit kingpin.
 

Days earlier, the quartet of Idris Abdulmalik Omeiza, Al Qasim Idris, Jamiu Abdulmalik, and Abdulhaleem Idris, arrested by the DSS, were sentenced to d3ath by a Federal High Court, Abuja, for their involvement in attacks that k!lled over 40 worshippers in Owo, Ondo State.

Last week, a High Court of Kogi State sitting in Lokoja, sentenced to d3ath by hanging, one Jibrin Halilu,  who was arrested by the DSS and charged with conspiracy and the kidnapping and m8rder of a hotelier in Obajana, Kogi State.