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Najib was jailed in 2022 after being convicted of corruption linked to the plunder of state fund 1MDB. The decision means he could now be eligible for release as early as next year.
PETALING JAYA: The possibility of former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak leaving prison in 2025 to spend the remaining sentence under home detention looms as he is eligible to apply for parole next year based on his revised prison term, says lawyer Mohamed Haniff Khatri Abdulla.
He was found guilty in July 2020 of illegally receiving $9.4 million in a 1MDB-linked case.
Former Zengeza West MP Job Sikhala will leave prison at 8AM on Wednesday after a court on Tuesday handed down a wholly suspended two-year prison sentence follow...
The detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has petitioned the British House of Lords for urgent intervention in his detention and case with the Nigerian government. Kanu, who possesses dual citizenship as a Nigerian and a Briton, wrote the petition through his special counsel, Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, describing himself as a political activist who is advocating for self-determination for the people of Biafra Nation, in the Southeastern region of Nigeria.