Two Al-Qaeda-linked terrorists bag life sentences after pleading guilty

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA— Two commanders of Ansaru, an Al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group, Mahmud Usman (also known as Abu Bara’a) and Abubakar Abba (popularly called Mahmud Al-Nigeri or Isah Adam/Mallam Mamuda), were on Monday handed life sentences by a Federal High Court in Abuja. The duo were convicted after they pleaded guilty to a 32-count terrorism…