Drug addict son in Niger State sets mother on fire, bags death sentence Chief Judge of Niger State, Justice Halima Ibrahim Abdulmalik, has sentenced a middle-aged man, Stephen Jiya, to death by hanging for the horrific murder of his biological mother, Mrs Comfort Jiya. Justice Abdulmalik handed the sentence to the convict at the Minna High Court 1 in Niger State. The deceased, a former principal of Government Girls’ Secondary School, Sabon Wuse, and Maryam Babangida Girls’ Science College, Minna, tragically lost her life after Stephen, reportedly a drug addict, sets her...