Tag: Chidinma Ojukwu

Slain Super TV boss Usifo Ataga Laid to Rest

30Jul

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Life, News, Nigeria

Slain Super TV boss Usifo Ataga Laid to Rest

The remains of slain CEO Super TV Micheal Usifo Ataga were on Friday interred in a private ceremony at the Ebony Vaults in Ikoyi, Lagos amid eulogies and tears from family members, close associates and other sympathisers. The service of songs and funeral rites on Thursday and Friday respectively held amid tight security. The Nation reports Ataga was found dead in an apartment at Lekki last month. He was murdered few days to his 50th birthday. Following his death, Lagos Police Command arrested a 21-year-old undergraduate of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Chidinma Ojukwu and others in connection with his death. During the funeral service, which held at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, Lagos, the officiating priest, Very Rev. Fr. Julius Olaitan, described the dece...

Revealed! Alleged Killer of Super TV CEO Booked Apartment with Fake name, Jewel

3Jul

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Crime, Life, News, Nigeria

Revealed! Alleged Killer of Super TV CEO Booked Apartment with Fake name, Jewel

A preliminary police report on the alleged murder of Super TV Chief Executive Officer, Usifo Ataga, has shown that the prime suspect, Chidinma Ojukwu, used the name ‘Jewel’ to book the short let apartment on Adebowale Oshin Street, Lekki Phase I, Lagos, where Ataga was killed. The report also indicated that several calls placed to a phone number with which 21-year-old Ojukwu booked didn’t go through after Ataga’s body was discovered in the room on Wednesday, June 16. Ojukwu, a 300-level Mass Communication student of the University of Lagos, had reportedly checked into the service apartment with Ataga to have fun. What started as an amorous encounter however went awry under the influence of drugs as Ojukwu reportedly stabbed her lover multiple times with a knife. The young lady,...

Why We’ve Not Taken Super TV CEO’s Suspected Killer to Court – Police

1Jul

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Crime, News, Nigeria

Why We’ve Not Taken Super TV CEO’s Suspected Killer to Court – Police

The Lagos State Police Command has explained why it has not taken Chidinma Ojukwu, the prime suspect in the killing of the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, to court. The University of Lagos undergraduate. and Ataga reportedly lodged in a service apartment in the Lekki area of the state and the corpse of the latter was discovered in the room the following day. The Police Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, told one of our correspondents on Wednesday that Chidinma would be taken to court after the police had concluded their investigation. “We will take her to court when we finish the investigation; we are still investigating,” he stated. However, a Lagos-based lawyer and human rights activist, Jiti Ogunye, urged the police to get a remand order to justif...

Super TV CEO: Why Police Released Suspect’s Father —Lagos CP

26Jun

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Crime, News, Nigeria

Super TV CEO: Why Police Released Suspect’s Father —Lagos CP

The Lagos State Police Command has released the father of a 21-year-old student of the University of Lagos, who allegedly stabbed the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, to death. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Hakeem Odumosu, told newsmen that the suspect’s father and one Nkechi Mogbo, have been released on bail. It was learnt that Chidinma Ojukwu’s father was arrested for hindering his daughter’s arrest at their residence in the Alagomeji area of the state. Until Chidinma’s arrest, Mogbo had been in police custody after an investigation showed that she operated the service apartment where the University of Lagos undergraduate allegedly killed Ataga. The suspect, while being paraded at the command headquarters in Ikeja on Thursday, confessed to have com...

Super TV CEO: Suspect’s Father Arrested, Lecturers, Classmates Shocked, UNILAG Silent

25Jun

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Crime, News, Nigeria

Super TV CEO: Suspect’s Father Arrested, Lecturers, Classmates Shocked, UNILAG Silent

Men of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested the father Chidinma Ojukwu, who allegedly stabbed the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, to death. A top police source, who pleaded anonymity because he was not authorised to speak on the matter, told PUNCH Metro that the suspect and her father were arrested at their residence, No. 57 Akinwunmi Street, Alagomeji, Yaba, on Wednesday. The source said the father was arrested for resisting Chidinma’s arrest and for becoming violent with policemen, who went to apprehend her. The source added that the man did not believe that his daughter committed any crime until she confessed on Thursday, adding that he was being detained at the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Panti, Yaba. “She (Chidinma) s...