Drug trafficking and the Saudi sword
Following the execution of one Kudirat Afolabi, a Nigerian woman, by the Saudi Arabian authorities earlier this month for drug trafficking, reports emerged that eight Nigerians have already been executed in the Kingdom , while twenty-three others are currently on death row.
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