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Nigeria: Govt Secures Release of Zainab From Saudi Prison
Daily Trust, 30 April 2019
Zainab Habib Aliyu has been released from detention and is now at the Nigerian Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Read more »
Zainab Aliyu who was arrested last year for alleged drug trafficking in Saudi Arabia has been freed. Aliyu was accused of smuggling 2,000 packs of a strong pain killer but the Nigerian authorities later found that the drugs had been planted in her luggage by a criminal gang.
Zainab Aliyu with officials of the Nigerian Consulate in Jeddah, shortly after her release.
President Muhammadu Buhari has asked Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami to intervene in the case of Zainab Aliyu who has been detained by Saudi Arabia authorities. Aliyu ... Read more »
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