18
Oct
Five men have been jailed for 12 years each in Nigeria after they were convicted of exhuming a human skull. They had planned to take it to a traditional doctor, who said it was needed for rituals that would make them rich. The men pleaded guilty after being caught with the skull in a bag. The prosecutor told the court that the men had dug up a body buried three years earlier at a Muslim cemetery in north-central Niger state. “They said the herbalist informed and promised all of them that they would share the wealth from the said criminal…
