Jobless Husband Beats Up Pregnant Wife Over Refusal to Give Him Money

A 33-year-old man, Ekwere Alex was Wednesday arraigned at an Ogudu Magistrates’ Court, Lagos for allegedly assaulting his pregnant wife, Ekwere Esther.

According to the prosecutor, Sgt. Ihiehie Lucky, the complainant, Esther, had lodged a complaint that her husband, ‘an applicant, collects her salary every month end.’

The prosecutor alleged that the accused assaulted and battered his wife on January 14, because of her refusal to part with her December salary.

He said that Esther, whose delivery date was near, was paid her December salary and preceded on her vacation.

Police Save Jobless Graduate who tried to Kill Himself in Uyo

An unemployed engineering graduate of Ekiti State University, Mr. Sunday Omotayo, was on Wednesday prevented from committing suicide by the police and prison officials in Akwa Ibom. Omotayo, who caused a stir along Wellington Bassey Way, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital, when he deliberately jumped out of a speeding Toyota Hiace bus, expecting to be crushed to death by other vehicles, said he was tired of life as he had been searching for a job for the past 10 years after graduation.

Some policemen, who were on patrol at the time of the incident, told a Punch correspondent that Omotayo had in the morning gone to the state prison asking the officials to either kill him or make way for him to rot in the prison. A prison officer, who craved anonymity, said they saw him – well dressed and wearing a tie – running towards them. He added that his action forced them to become alert with their guns. He said:

“The next thing he said was ‘shoot me, shoot me, I want to die, I am tired of this world. He added that otherwise, we should allow him to enter and die inside the prison.'