Nigeria: death sentence for former dictator's man (AP)

LAGOS, Nigeria ? 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' High Court on Monday 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.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/africa/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120130/ap_on_re_af/af_nigeria_trial

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