A court sitting in Kano on Tuesday sentenced a Chinese national, Frank Geng-Quangrong, to death after finding him guilty of killing his girlfriend.
Geng-Quangrong was accused of stabbing his girlfriend, 22-year-old Ummukulsum Sani, in September 2022 at a Kano residence.
The accused had claimed he stabbed thx deceased in self-defense.
He has up to three months to appeal his sentence at Nigeria’s Court of Appeal.