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A Sharia Court in Kano State has sentenced to death a 22-year-old musician known as Yahaya Sharif Aminu for making a song that allegedly blaspheme against Prophet Muhammad.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports the presiding judge at the court, Khadi Aliyu Muhammad Kani found Aminu guilty and sentenced him to death by hanging on Monday.
Aminu, who is said to be a member of the Islamic Tijjaniya sect and Faidha group, was arrested after a protest by Muslim youths in the State.
The musician, who resides in Sharifai in Kano metropolis was accused of committing blasphemy against the Prophet in a song he circulated via WhatsApp in March 2020.
The Muslim youths had threatened to take laws into their hands. They had earlier set ablaze the family house of the musician in Kano municipality.
The court had also sentenced one Umar Farouq of Sharada area of Kano metropolis to 10 years imprisonment for making derogatory statements concerning the Almighty Allah in a public argument.