Man kills in-law over cigarette

A 21-year old man identified as Lucky Igbineyi has been remanded in prison custody for allegedly killing his in-law, Blessing Obazee over a stick of cigarette.

Lucky was said to have stabbed his in-law in the stomach severally.

Police Prosecutor, Inspector Oluwaseun Olatoye, had informed an Evboriaria Magistrate court that Lucky committed the crime on September 3 at No 40, Enoruwa Street, Off Upper Sakponba Road in Ikpoba-Okha local government.

Olatoye said the accused person came to stay in the same room with the deceased.

He explained that the deceased (Obazee) refused to give the accused person the cigarette he was smoking which made the accused person to go and buy his.

The Nation, October 10

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