Court sentences woman to death by hanging for 8-year-old girl’s murder A Kano State High Court has sentenced Fadila Adamu, a housewife, to death by hanging for the kidnapping and murder of an eight-year-old girl, whom she threw into a well, resulting in the child's tragic death. The defendant, who lives at the Sabuwar Gandu Quarters, Kano, was convicted of kidnapping and culpable homicide. Delivering judgment, Justice Yusuf Muhammad-Ubale ruled that the prosecution had proven its case beyond a reasonable doubt and sentenced the defendant to death by hanging. “I hereby sentence the...