FULL LIST: 23 Nigerians to be executed in Saudi Arabia over drug trafficking

Saudi authorities have revealed that at least 23 Nigerians are currently on the death row in Saudi Arabia for drug-related offences and may executed anytime from now.

They were arrested at King Abdul-Aziz International Airport, Jeddah and Prince Muhammad bin Abdu- Aziz International Airport, Madinah having concealed the banned substances in their rectums, the Saudi document revealed.

The names of the convicted persons were given as:

1. Adeniyi Adebayo Zikri

2. Tunde Ibrahim

3. Jimoh Idhola Lawal

4. Lolo Babatunde

5. Sulaiman Tunde

6. Idris Adewuumi Adepoju

7. Abdul Raimi Awela Ajibola

8. Yusuf Makeen Ajiboye

9. Adam Idris Abubakar

10. Saka Zakaria

11. Biola Lawal

12. Isa Abubakar Adam

13. Ibrahim Chiroma

14. Hafis Amosu

15. Aliu Muhammad

16. Funmilayo Omoyemi Bishi

17. Mistura Yekini

18. Amina Ajoke Alobi

19. Kuburat Ibrahim

20. Alaja Olufunke Alalaoe Abdulqadir

21. Fawsat Balagun Alabi

22. Aisha Muhammad Amira

23. Adebayo Zakariya.

This is coming a few weeks after the Saudi authorities executed Kudirat Afolabi for drug trafficking and Saheed Sobade, another Nigerian, reportedly nabbed with 1,183 grams of cocaine powder in Jeddah