HALIMA SHITU: FIRST FEMALE HISBAH COMMANDER HAS DIED

                                                                   

The first female Hisbah Commander in Kano state, Halima Shitu has died at the age of 55 as confirmed by a family source.

Hisbah is an Islamic religious police , an official vice squad which enforces religious observance and public  morality on behalf of national or regional authorities based on its interpretation of sharia. The Kano State Hisbah Corps is a religious police force in Nigeria's northern Kano state responsible for the enforcement of Sharia.
The deceased who contributed to Islamic scholarship among women in Nigeria and Africa at large as the Chairperson of the Association of Muslim Women in Africa(AMEWA), died after a brief illness in Kano.

 Her sister, Maimuna Shitu said;
  “She left behind a husband who is a prominent Islamic Scholar Sheikh Abdulwahab Abdullah and six children to mourn her. Her eldest son is Malam Abdullah Abdulwahab, a system analyst at Bayero University Kano."