THE STORY BEHIND THE CASE OF NAFIU RABIU V THE STATE. A MUST READ!
On Wednesday, May 9, 1979, Nafiu Isyaku Rabiu and his beautiful wife Fatima hosted his three friends to a dinner in the verdant garden of his Dawaki Road, Kano residence. After the sumptuous feast, toasts, and clinking glasses, the friends left the “happy” couple “quite alright” at around 11pm.
The following day, Kano awoke to the most celebrated murder case in history. The story was that Nafiu Rabiu, the prima donna of Kano socialites and oldest son of a rich Kano cleric, Sheikh Isyaku Rabiu, had murdered his wife, Fatima. Nafiu Rabiu was in those days notorious for alleged methomania, reckless driving, vanity, and hedonistic lifestyle.
In the public court, Nafiu Rabiu was pronounced guilty of killing his wife by pushing her downstairs.
According to some accounts, the then governor of Kano State, Muhammadu Abubakar Rimi, took a vow to send Nafiu Rabiu to the gallows, just as Fatima’s millionaire dad, Tijjani Aliyu Dagazau, undertook to ensure justice for her at all costs.
But to the chagrin of the state, the family of the deceased and the people of Kano who trooped to “Kotun Nafiu” on Court Road, Kano to witness the proceedings, the Supreme Court on November 21, 1980 (exactly 37 years ago yesterday) dismissed the appeal of Kano State government.
In their testimonies, Nafiu Rabiu’s cook and driver gave the account of what transpired in the house on May 10, 1979. The cook said he came to the house in the morning and strangely found the door locked, and when he asked his colleague (the driver), who normally kept the keys to the main building, for the key, he told him was not given the key.
After waiting for a couple of hours, Nafiu Rabiu opened the window and threw the keys to the driver. At 10 am,
Nafiu Rabiu re-appeared and asked his cook to open the kitchen door as he had misplaced the keys to the front door. Nafiu later came out holding “soiled blankets and clothes” and asked his driver to put them into the boot of his Peugeot 504. Nafiu then asked the driver to pick his mother-in-law in his other car, a Mercedes-Benz saloon, from Kano airport. According to Nafiu’s account, the mother-in-law was due to arrive from Niamey that day.
Nafiu later drove out in his Peugeot 504 and instructed his cook to serve his wife (who, according to Nafiu Rabiu’s account, was asleep when he left the house) when she woke up. For the first time, Nafiu left the keys to the door leading from the kitchen to the lounge and other parts of the main house with the cook.
Later in the noon, their children (who apparently slept the previous night elsewhere) were driven to the house. With the keys left, the cook opened the inner lounge, leading the room to the children. They found their mother dead.
Those who saw Fatima’s body suspected foul play after noticing injuries and signs of strangulation. The state took up the matter, hiring top pathologists to conduct autopsy on her body. The team of the four pathologists who conducted the post-mortem examination was led by Dr. Bansi Badan Tribedi, a senior consultant pathologist working as a pathologist since 1948 in Calcutta, United Kingdom and Ghana for 14 years, and in Nigeria for seven years.
But despite state resources, public interest, and the influence of Fatima’s father, the prosecution failed to establish beyond reasonable doubt that Fatima had died as a result of strangulation that led to asphyxia
Source: DailyNigeria
More satellite images show clusters of bodies and pools of blood from people executed by the RSF near the sand berm in El Fasher, Sudan’s North Darfur 🇸🇩.
The RSF has been building this sand berm since May 2025 to fully encircle the city. These atrocities were planned long ago.
It’s truly horrific.
Over 460 patients were reportedly executed by the RSF at El Fasher’s Saudi Hospital, with footage and satellite images confirming a mass killing.
Clusters of objects seen in the satellite images are likely the bodies of those who were murdered.
Additional Airbus satellite images obtained by @HRL_YaleSPH confirm mass killings at RSF-controlled sites, including the former Children’s Hospital and Saudi Hospital in El Fasher, Sudan 🇸🇩, as well as along the sand berm the RSF built in recent months to fully encircle the city.
I can’t believe what I’m seeing!
Maxar satellite imagery obtained by @HRL_YaleSPH shows vivid red discolouration, highly likely to be blood, spattered across the ground between and around houses throughout El-Fasher 🇸🇩, strongly indicating mass killings of civilians in the area.
When Sudan sued the UAE with evidence that they are sponsoring the RSF which is committing genocide in the country, while bringing in Colombian mercenaries to work with them to commit the ethnic killings, the United Nations highest court the International Court of Justice on 5th May 2025 dismissed the case, saying that it could not proceed because the UAE had opted out Article 9 of the Genocide Convention, which means that it cannot be sued by other states over genocide allegations.
The United Nations is an accomplice to the genocide in Sudan.
Two thousand people died in 48 hours to the point where the blood flooded the streets and it became visible through satellite images.
Writing this as I’m completely dissociated. I read it over and over and I still can’t feel anything.