{"id":1162497,"date":"2022-07-28T16:24:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T16:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/28\/killing-of-hanifa-kano-court-sentences-proprietor-to-death-by-hanging\/"},"modified":"2022-07-28T16:24:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T16:24:12","slug":"killing-of-hanifa-kano-court-sentences-proprietor-to-death-by-hanging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/28\/killing-of-hanifa-kano-court-sentences-proprietor-to-death-by-hanging\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing Of Hanifa: Kano Court Sentences Proprietor To Death By Hanging"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Kano State High Court on Thursday sentenced the proprietor of Nobel Kids Academy and North West Preparatory School, Abdulmalik Tanko, to death for the kidnap and killing of five-year-old schoolgirl, Hanifa Abubakar.<\/p>\n

The Presiding Judge, Justice Usman Na\u2019abba, also sentenced Tanko to five years imprisonment for the four-count charges leveled against him.<\/p>\n

Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, earlier this year had vowed to sign the death sentence without further delay if given by the court.<\/p>\n

Until her death, Hanifa was a pupil of Noble Kids Comprehensive College \u2013 a school located in Kwanar \u2018Yan Gana in Tudun Murtala Quarters in Nassarawa Local Government Area of the state.<\/p>\n

She was abducted by Mr Tanko who demanded ransom from her parents and was reported to have killed her in December last year.<\/p>\n

Following the suspect\u2019s arrest, the state government arraigned Tanko alongside two others at the State High Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Kano State High Court on Thursday sentenced the proprietor of Nobel Kids Academy and North West Preparatory School, Abdulmalik Tanko, to death for the kidnap and killing of five-year-old schoolgirl, Hanifa Abubakar. The Presiding Judge, Justice Usman Na\u2019abba, also sentenced Tanko to five years imprisonment for the four-count charges leveled against him. Kano State […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1162499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}