{"id":66560,"date":"2025-05-26T12:10:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T12:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66560"},"modified":"2025-05-26T12:10:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T12:10:54","slug":"co-wife-kills-rival-in-katsina-domestic-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/26\/co-wife-kills-rival-in-katsina-domestic-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Co-Wife Kills Rival in Katsina Domestic Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A domestic dispute in Daura, Katsina State, turned fatal as 25-year-old Rabi\u2019a Labaran allegedly stabbed her co-wife, 30-year-old Zainab Lawal, to death . The incident occurred on the night of May 24, 2025, in the Sabon Gari area of Daura, behind Dadi Primary School.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesperson ASP Abubakar Sadiq reported that the command received a distress call from the husband, Nasir Yusuf, who returned from the market to find his first wife, Zainab, in a pool of blood inside their home.<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the Sabon Gari Police Division responded promptly, and Zainab was rushed to the Federal Medical Centre in Daura, where she was pronounced dead .<\/p>\n<p>During preliminary investigations, Rabi\u2019a Labaran was taken into custody . According to ASP Sadiq, she admitted to the attack during interrogation, revealing that the deadly confrontation stemmed from an ongoing dispute between the co-wives .<\/p>\n<p>Katsina State Commissioner of Police, Bello Shehu, has issued a stern warning to the public, urging families to seek peaceful resolutions to domestic conflicts and avoid resorting to violence or vigilante justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal A domestic dispute in Daura, Katsina State, turned fatal as 25-year-old Rabi\u2019a Labaran allegedly stabbed her co-wife, 30-year-old Zainab Lawal, to death . The incident occurred on the night of May 24, 2025, in the Sabon Gari area of Daura, behind Dadi Primary School. Police spokesperson ASP Abubakar Sadiq reported that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":66561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inec"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66562,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66560\/revisions\/66562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}