A student from Sokoto State’s Shehu Shagari College of Education has been burned to death by her classmates for allegedly insulting Prophet Muhammad (SAW).
The event occurred on Thursday morning, according to reports.
Muslim students dragged her out of her hostel and set her on fire.
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In March 2021, a group of enraged youths in the Sade community in the Darazo Local Government Area of Bauchi State burned to death a guy named Talle Mai Ruwa for allegedly insulting Prophet Muhammad.
Mai Ruwa was hauled away from his home on Tuesday in front of his mother and burned to death in the centre of the neighbourhood, according to reports.
In 2020, a Shariah court in that axis condemned Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, a 22-year-old Muslim gospel musician, to death for committing blasphemy in a series of private WhatsApp messages. The same court found a 16-year-old boy, Umar Farouk, guilty of blasphemy for reportedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad while arguing with a friend and sentenced him to 10 years in prison with manual labour.
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Farouk’s sentence has been overturned, and Sharif-Aminu’s case has been sent for retrial. But these sentences critics consider harsh, are only examples of the problematic application of Shariah law in some states in northern Nigeria.
Eyewitnesses provided graphic photos of the incident, showing a middle-aged man being burned together with tyres.
