spousal killing

Two lawyers, Mrs. Toyin Ojo and Mrs. Bola Ajayi, in Lagos, on Wednesday, have linked the recent increase in spousal killings in the country to domestic violence.The lawyers, who spoke in separate interviews, said that domestic violence…

A pathologist, Dr S.S. Soyele, told an Ikeja High Court on Tuesday that Ronke Shonde, the banker allegedly murdered by her dockworker husband, Lekan Shonde had suffered severe brain injuries which led to her death. The News Agency of…

A 57-year-old woman admitted in a German court on Monday to having killed her partner with boiling water so as to “teach him a lesson” because of an alleged affair.The woman, who has not been identified under Germany’s strict privacy…

US-based Nigerian pharmacist, Olasunkanmi Esho has shot his Cameroonian wife, Bourk, and eight-year-old daughter, Olivia, dead before committing suicide.According to the Chicago Tribune, the incident occurred at an apartment on 75th…

A woman in the Ikorodu area of Lagos, Abimbola Olamide, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly killing her husband, Dare Akinbobola, by stabbing him in the neck.Olamide, who confessed to the crime in a viral…

A carpenter, Nnana Ononaku, was on Monday brought before an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, for allegedly strangling his wife to death and throwing her body into the lagoon.The accused, 45, resident of No. 89, Oke Eri St.,…

A Nigerian man, Osa Alohaneke, faces prospects of life imprisonment after a jury found him guilty of killing his Cameroonian fiancée, Evelyne Ebane Epiepang, in the US city of Houston, Texas in 2015.According to prosecutors, Alohaneke,…

A 15-year-old housewife, Dausiya Abdulmumin, has killed her husband Saminu Usman, 27, and her younger brother, Muhammad Abdulmumin, 18.The incident occurred in Unguwar Danmayaki village in Bakori Local government area of Katsina.…