• Plans are strongly ongoing to appeal the death sentence of Kano singer, Yahaya Aminu Shariff

• Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has received the documents of judgement sentencing the singer to death

• The documents of the verdict were handed to Falana's representatives in Kano on Wednesday, September 2

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Femi Falana, a human right lawyer, has received the document of the Shari'a court verdict sentencing Yahaya Aminu Shariff, a 22-year-old singer, to death in Kano state over blasphemy.

Babajido Ibrahim, the spokesperson of the Kano state judiciary, made this known on Thursday, September 3, weeks after the singer was slammed with the judgement that is still drawing controversy.

Ibrahim said that certified copies of the verdict have been handed to Falana’s representative on Wednesday, September 2, in Kano to enable the human right lawyer appeal.