A Chief Magistrate Court sitting in the Ebute Meta area of Yaba, Lagos has remanded one Olamide Akinbobola in prison.
The Chief Magistrate, Mrs O.A. Komolafe, who gave the ruling on Wednesday, remanded the 24-year-old in Kirikiri Prison for allegedly stabbed her husband to death in the Ikorodu area of the state.
She said the defendant, who appeared before her on a charge of murder, should remain behind bars pending the advice from the State Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
The magistrate also directed that the case file should be duplicated, and a copy forwarded to the DPP for the advice.
Before the order for remand was made, a police prosecutor, Sergeant Kehinde Omisakin, told the magistrate that the woman, a school teacher, committed the offence on May 30, 2018, at a residence in Gbaga, off Ijede Road, Ikorodu.
Omisakin also alleged that the defendant stabbed her husband, Dare Akinbobola, 28, on his neck to death with a kitchen knife.
The offence is said to contravene Section 233 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015 (Revised) and attracts a death penalty on conviction.
