Nigeria, June 19 -- The Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday sentenced two women arrested for terrorism-related offences to 20 years imprisonment each.

The prosecution, during the pre-judgement review of the case on Friday, said the convicts, Safiya Salihu and Halima Abdullahi, are the mother and sister, respectively, of Kachallah Ibrahim Battujo, a notorious bandit leader killed by security forces on 10 June in a forest near Iluke in Kabba/Bunu Local Government Area of Kogi State.

PREMIUM TIMES reported that the Kogi State Government confirmed the killing of Kachalla Battijo, a suspected bandit leader accused of masterminding the recent attack on Government Secondary School (GSS), Iluke, in Kabba/Bunu Local Government Area of the stat...