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Nigerianewslite Religions       The recent decision by the Supreme Court of Nigeria affirming the death sentence of Sunday Jackson, a Christian farmer from Adamawa State who killed a herdsman during a violent altercation on his farmland marks a deeply troubling turn in Nigeria’s judicial history. This judgment, which has rightly drawn the ire of constitutional lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mike Ozekhome, represents not just a failure of legal reasoning but a betrayal of a citizen’s most basic right: the right to life and to defend that life when threatened. It is a precedent that leaves millions of rural Nigerians vulnerable and helpless in the face of violent aggression, especially by armed Fulani herdsman men Mr. Jackson’s case, by all credible accounts, is one of self-defence in the truest sense. Faced with an armed herdsman, Jackson did what any reasonable person might do under such terrifying circumstances: he defended himself. The Supreme Court’s expectatio...