NIGERIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING HIS WIFE A MONTH AFTER THEIR WEDDING

The Federal High court in Yenogoa, Bayelsa state, on 22 March 2019 sentenced 42 year old Ogho-Oghene Stephen Akpata to death by hanging for stabbing his wife of just one month, Oyinye Faustina Eze, to death at their home in the Kpansia area of Yenagoa in August 2017. They got married in July after many times of him dodging to go see her parents and by August he had murdered her. She was about 4 months pregnant with their son. Upon his arrest after the murder, Stephen alleged his wife was having an extramarital affair.