Tinubu Pardons Herbert Macaulay, Vasta, Others
President Bola Tinubu has granted a presidential pardon to several historic and contemporary figures, like Herbert Macaulay, Mamman Vasta, Farouk Lawan, and others who were executed in 1995 under the military regime of late General Sani Abacha. Vatsa was sentenced to death over a treason charge in 1986, and Macaulay was twice convicted by the colonial authorities in Lagos. In 1913, while in private practice as a surveyor, he was tried for allegedly misappropriating funds from an estate he administered and sentenced to prison; historians have long debated the fairness of that prosecution.

