Some youths have set on fire Noble Kids School, Warshu Hospital Road, in Kawaji, Kano State, over the abduction and killing of a five-year-old Hanifa Abubakar.
The proprietor of the school, Abdulmalik Tanko, had earlier abducted the little girl and eventually killed the pupil despite collecting ransom.
Hanifa and many others were coming back from an Islamic class when a tricycle offered to give them a lift.
But while others had alighted from the tricycle, the driver had asked Hanifa to stay behind so that he could further give her a lift to her compound.
Instead of taking Hanifa to her house, the driver rather whisked her away to an undisclosed location where are family was later reached for ransom.
Tanko had demanded a N6million ransom from the parents of the child and in the process of collecting part of the money, he was arrested.
He had failed to disclose that the victim had been killed.
When he was arrested at the Kano Police Command headquarters, he told journalists that he poisoned the girl with a rat poison that he bought for N100.
Tanko had earlier confessed that he killed the girl because she could recognise him.
Last Thursday, Mr Tanko led police officers to the school premises where the remains of Hanifa were found buried in a shallow grave.
The body had been dismembered before being buried. The remains were then exhumed for medical examination ahead of proper burial by her family.
The Kano government had shut down the school indefinitely and directed parents to enroll their children in other schools.
