US EditionTinubu Grants Presidential Clemency to Maryam Sanda After Six Years in Prison
President Tinubu pardoned Maryam Sanda among 175 convicts to promote prison decongestion and national unity, citing her remorse and good conduct in custody.
- On Oct 11, 2025, President Bola Tinubu granted clemency to Maryam Sanda, who was sentenced to death in 2020 for killing her husband Bilyaminu Bello, among 175 pardoned convicts.
- The Presidential Advisory Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy recommended clemency for Sanda, citing her good conduct in custody and remorse, Onanuga said.
- Court records show Sanda was arraigned in November 2017 and Justice Halilu held she fatally stabbed her husband, amid adjournments, witness disappearances, and her claim that the killing was not premeditated.
- Sanda is expected to reunite with her two children, and sources say the pardon aims to decongest prisons, commuting seven inmates' death sentences to life imprisonment.
- Critics immediately reacted, saying the pardon list hasn’t gone down well with everyone as social media accused favoritism despite including Ken Saro-Wiwa and recommendations for 82 clemencies and 65 commutations.
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Maryam Sanda, Prof Garba, Popular Names On Tinubu's Pardon List - Daily Trust
Maryam Sanda, the woman sentenced to death in 2020 for killing her husband, Bilyaminu Bello, son of former PDP National Chairman, Haliru Bello, in 2017, is among those recently pardoned by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Her case was one of Nigeria’s most talked-about domestic violence cases. Sanda, aged 37, was sentenced to death by hanging after the court found her guilty of culpable homicide for stabbing her husband during a domestic dispute in …
Tinubu grants presidential clemency to Maryam Sanda after six years in prison
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has granted presidential clemency to Maryam Sanda, who was sentenced to death in 2020 for killing her husband, Bilyaminu Bello. Sanda, 37, had spent six years and eight months at the Suleja Medium Security Custodial Centre before she was freed under the President’s nationwide pardon programme. According to a statement by Bayo Onanuga, the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, the clemency was based …
Breaking: Full list of those pardoned by President Tinubu
Illegal miners, white-collar convicts, remorseful drug offenders, foreigners, Major General Mamman Vatsa, Major Akubo, Professor Magaji Garba, capital offenders such as Maryam Sanda, Ken Saro Wiwa, and the other Ogoni Eight were among the 175 convicts and former convicts who received President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s mercy on Thursday. President Tinubu granted clemency to most of … The post Breaking: Full list of those pardoned by President Tinu…
Criticism Trails Tinubu’s Pardon for Maryam Sanda as Onoh Calls It Morally Wrong - Blackbox Nigeria
Ademuyiwa Balikis A former spokesperson for the Tinubu Presidential Campaign Council in the Southeast, Dr. Josef Onoh, has criticised President Bola Tinubu’s decision to grant presidential pardon to Maryam Sanda, who was convicted and sentenced to death in 2020 for the murder of her husband, Bilyaminu Bello. Onoh described the president’s action as morally wrong, insisting that it undermines the principles of justice and could weaken public con…
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