KANO: A federal appeals court in northern Nigeria's Kano state quashed an appeal Wednesday against a death sentence given to a singer accused of blasphemy saying the religious ruling was constitutional.The sentence was handed over by one of the country's Islamic Sharia courts which operate in the north alongside common law.The religious courts have previously handed down death sentences for adultery, murder and homosexuality but no executions have been carried out.A Sharia court in Kano in August 2020 ordered Yahaya Aminu Sharif's death by hanging for expressions considered derogatory against the Prophet Mohammed.The singer appealed his conviction.In November 2020, the Kano state court dismi
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