Woman Stabs Husband To Death In Ibadan

• Residents have expressed shock after the brutal murder of a man by his wife.

• A woman has reportedly killed her husband, after three years of marriage, following an argument.

Daily Report Nigeria gathers that the accused, Comfort Olajumoke Olalere Tinubu, 33 allegedly stabbed her husband, Olusegun Tinubu, 39, to death in Ibadan, Oyo State.

Comfort was reported to have committed the crime at Gbeyi, in the Adegbayi area of Ibadan around 10pm on Wednesday night, October 30, 2024.

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According to further reports from The Nation, a heated argument sparked between the deceased and his wife, and she locked him out of their bedroom. This led to an argument in which she st@bbed Olusegun in the back.

According to a source who pleaded anonymity:

“I got the call around 10:03pm and I learned that they fought and she stabbed him but that he was rushed to the hospital. About 30mins later, I was called again that my younger brother is d3ad. 

When we reported the matter at the police station, she was asked what happened; she said her late husband accused her of locking the matrimonial bedroom door since around 7am when she left the house and returning about 7pm.

“She said the matter led to an argument between them but that fight started when the late husband came to slap her where she laid down breastfeeding their baby.”

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He added that another relative who stays with the couple had separated them during the argument.

“After settling the fight, he went back to his room asking the husband to sleep in the living room. But, not done it was gathered that Comfort went to attack the husband where he was lying down in the sitting room and st@bbed him in the back with the knife. The husband was said to have screamed for help and slumped and later confirmed dead by the time he got to the hospital,” the source narrated. 

“The matter was initially reported at Gbagi Police station but the case was later transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Iyaganku, Ibadan.”