CAF CONFIRMS DATES FOR AFCON 2027 IN KENYA, TANZANIA AND UGANDA. (PHOTO).

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 CAF confirms dates for AFCON 2027 in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda The 2027 Africa Cup of Nations will be played between Jun 19 and July 17 the African Federation (CAF) announced on Saturday without revealing which of Uganda, Kenya or Tanzania would host the opener or the final. The dates were approved by the FIFA Council in Vancouver, Canada, after fears the countries would fail to be ready were quelled with CAF president Patrice Motsepe who fought off a delay to 2028. "We have worked hard to ensure that the AFCON is held in East Africa, and our commitment remains unwavering. I am confident that we will organise a very successful AFCON in these three countries," Motsepe said. This edition of the AFCON, the first spread over three countries, will mark the return of the competition to East Africa for the first time since the 1976 edition in Ethiopia.

UPDATE: ON FRIDAY A KANO HOUSEWIFE WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR THE MURDER OF HER CHILDHOOD FRIEND'S 8-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER, AISHA SANI. (PHOTO).


 The Kano State High Court, Kano, on Friday, sentenced a housewife, Fadila Adamu, to death by hanging for the murder of her childhood friend’s eight-year-old daughter, Aisha Sani. 


In 2019, Fadila kidnapped the minor on her way home from Islamiyya school and threw her into a well, causing her death. 


Aisha’s corpse was discovered in the well at Gandu Albasa Quarters two weeks after she went missing. 


The defendant, who lived at the Sabuwar Gandu Quarters Kano, was convicted of kidnapping and culpable homicide.


Delivering judgement, trial judge Yusuf Muhammad-Ubale ruled that the prosecution had proven its case beyond reasonable doubt and sentenced the defendant to death by hanging.


“I hereby sentence the defendant to death by hanging for kidnapping and throwing the victim into a well which caused her d3ath,” he ruled.


Earlier, the prosecution lawyer, Lamido Abba-Sorondinki, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on 14 July 2019, at Tudun Wada Quarters, Kano.


He said that at about 4:45 p.m, the defendant kidnapped the minor and took her to her house.


“The defendant told her sister that the deceased was the daughter of her friend, whose mother had travelled to Ghana, and asked her to keep the child until she returned.


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