On Tuesday, the Kano State Police Command nabbed a 20-year-old housewife identified as Suwaiba Shuaibu from the state’s Doguwa Local Government Area for allegedly stabbing her husband’s 17-year-old fiancée to death.

Command spokesman Abdullahi Haruna, who confirmed the arrest in a statement in Kano on Tuesday, said the incident occurred in the village of Doguwa LGA in Gimawa on January 1, 2021.

The investigation found, according to the statement, that the deceased and the husband of the suspect had been having an affair for more than six years and were scheduled to wed on January 9, 2021.

A report by mynigeria.com has it that 

“On January 2, 2021, at about 10.30 am, a complaint was received from one Kabiru Jafaru, of the same address that the body of his 17-year-old daughter, who got missing on January 1, was discovered in an uncompleted building within their neighbourhood.

 “During interrogation, the suspect confessed that she contacted the victim on the phone, deceived and lured her to an uncompleted building in their neighbourhood, where she used a sharp knife to stab her on the neck, chest and other parts of her body

“The suspect disclosed that she killed the victim out of jealousy because her husband proposed to marry her,” it said.