An Upper Shari’a Court sitting in Kano on Wednesday, sentenced a 60-year-old man, Mati Abdu, to death by stoning after his conviction for raping a 12-year-old girl. Daily Times reports that, Abdu was convicted on a count charge of rape contrary to Section 126 of Kano State Shari’a Penal Code
A Magistrate’s Court in Kano has convicted one Yusuf Suleman to eight months imprisonment or a fine of N40,000, after pleading guilty to a three-count charge of incitement, assault and disturbance of public peace by assaulting Hajiya Baraka Sani, Special Adviser to the President on Agriculture. The court, presided over by Ibrahim Khalil Muhammad, had […]