A 37-year-old trader, Christiana Odo, was on Friday charged with stabbing her husband, Romanus, 48, to death at an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos.
Magistrate A.O. Ajibade, however, did not take the plea of the accused and ordered that she should be remanded at Ikoyi Prison pending advice from the State Director of Public Prosecutions.
The accused, a resident of 2, London Barber Street, Majidun in Ikorodu, Lagos State, is facing a charge of murder.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Inspector Oladele Adebayo, told the court that the offence was committed on December 25, 2016 at about 4pm at the residence of the accused.
Adebayo alleged that the accused had stabbed her husband with a kitchen knife in his chest, killing him instantly.
He said: “The deceased had come home in a drunken state and had a heated argument with the accused, who angrily picked up a kitchen knife and stabbed him inthe chest.”
The offence contravenes Section 221 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2011.
Section 221 prescribes death penalty for offenders.
The case has been adjourned to February 13.
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