A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Kano has ordered a correctional centre to remand Chinese national, Geng Quanrong, over the alleged murder of his lover Ummukulsum Sani in Kano.
Mr Geng, 47, who lives at Nassarawa GRA Quarters Kano, was charged with culpable homicide.
Chief Magistrate, Hanif Sanusi-Chiroma, who did take the plea of Geng, ordered that he should be remanded in Kurmawa Correctional Centre, pending legal advice.
Sanusi-Chiroma adjourned the matter until October 13 for further mention.
Earlier, the prosecution counsel, Khalifa Auwal-Hashim, said that Geng allegedly committed the offence on September 16, at Janbulo Quarters in Kano.
He alleged that on the same day at about 9.30 pm, Geng attacked Sani, 22, with a knife after a misunderstanding.
The police said that Sani was rushed to the Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital in Kano where she was pronounced dead by a medical doctor.
Auwal-Hashim urged the court to seek legal advice because the matter was a capital offence and the court lacks jurisdiction to entertain it.
The alleged offence, he said, contravenes the provisions of Section 221 of the Penal Code.
