Supreme court voids Tinubu’s clemency, reinstates Maryam Sanda’s death sentence Story by Okafor Vivian  The Supreme Court has set aside President Bola Tinubu’s decision to commute the death sentence of Maryam Sanda, ruling that the President acted beyond his constitutional powers by granting clemency while her appeal was still pending before the courts. In a landmark judgment delivered on Friday, the apex court held that the Executive cannot exercise the power of mercy in a case that has not reached its final judicial conclusion. The court subsequently reinstated Sanda’s death sentence, which...