in the north Nigerian city of Kano, police said on Friday.The suspects are accused, along with six others who are still on the lam, of killing 74-year-old Bridget Abahime last week after she allegedly insulted Islam's holiest figure, the Prophet Mohammed.
All five pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
at a magistrates court in the city and were remanded in jug pending another hearing on June 28.
The victim, an ethnic Igbo trader, was beaten to death at a Kano market on June 2, drawing condemnation from across Nigeria. President Muhammadu Buhari called the killing "utterly condemnable."