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Nigeria’s courts deliver a chilling verdict: four men sentenced to death for orchestrating a 2022 church massacre that killed 41 and wounded over 100 during a Pentecost service in Ondo State. The same men also face 20-year prison terms for terror group membership. Judge Emeka Nwite called the evidence “solid and unshakeable,” citing eyewitnesses who identified the defendants. A survivor, now disabled by explosives, testified to the horror. Though prosecutors hailed justice, defense plans an appeal — and Nigeria’s president must approve any execution, a process stalled for years. A fifth accused, allegedly funding the attack, walked free due to lack of proof. The case echoes a nation grappling with escalating violence, where church attacks continue to rise — and global scrutiny grows over whether Nigeria protects its Christian communities, despite officials denying such failures and analysts noting most victims are Muslims. Amid kidnap gangs, jihadists, and separatists, this verdict is both a reckoning and a warning.

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