3PLR – CHRISTIANA UGU V. ANDREW EBINNI TABI
MADAM CHRISTIANA UGU V. ANDREW EBINNI TABI IN THE
MURDER CASES CONNECTED WITH CHILDREN AND WOMEN IN NIGERIA
CHILDREN AND WOMEN LAW & POLICY REPORTS WITH SUPPORT FROM AFRICAN MOTHERHOOD INITIATIVES
INDEX TO MURDER CASES CONNECTED TO NIGERIAN CHILDREN AND WOMEN
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Wife-killing – Deceased wife strangled for refusing sex to her husband – Whether provocation at law – Attitude of court thereto |
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ABADALLABE V BORNU NATIVE AUTHORITY
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Women and Security of homes and neighbourhoods – Murder and assault of women – Midnight assailant kills woman and wounds another to effect his escape – Plea of self-defence and licence to enter – How treated by court |
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Women and Murder – Adultery – Adulteress/wife and the killing of her lover by husband – Whether circumstances involved amount to legal provocation – How treated |
| ABDU V. THE STATE |
Wife-killing – Constitutional and Human Rights – Right to Life – Security – Matrimonial Relations – Brutal murder of wife via machete cut on the head – How treated |
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Women and Security/Domestic Violence – Wife-Killing – Domestic disagreement resulting in the killing of wife by husband – Women and Religion – Tragedy arising from unresolved dispute between married couples of different religions – How treated |
| ABUKAR V THE STATE |
Women and Murder – Women and healthcare – Woman stabbed to death by Husband for allegedly committing adultery and taunting husband with his impotence – Lack of emergency healthcare services for critically wounded victims – Dispensary Assistant as medical practitioner available to pronounce death of woman and direct her burial – How treated |
| Children and Murder – Death of young boy by gun shot | |
| ADEGBESAN V. THE STATE |
Children and Security of Lives – Murder – Child matcheted to death because killer of killer’s beliefs in relation to misfortunes experienced |
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Women and Politics – Widowhood – Wife of politician – Wife’s effort to manage politician – Husband’s grievance over election outcome – Husband kills another regardless – Effect thereof on family life |
| ADELUMOLA V. THE STATE |
Safety of Women and Children – Domestic dispute resulting in death of woman and severe burns to another child |
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Women and Security of Life and neighborhood – Horrific murder of defenseless woman [head cut off and hidden] – Evidence of another woman who was eye-witness to the murder – Courage of a woman to witness against a family member involved in the commission of capital crime against another woman – Attitude of court thereto |
| AFILAYA V QUEEN |
Children and Security – Brutal murder of 9 year old boy – 7 matchet blow and body parts mutilated – Out of wedlock pregnancy and disputes arising therefrom – Implications for security, crime and law enforcement |
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Women and Security/Murder – Pregnant woman assaulted and killed by another woman – Women and Justice Administration – Whether a once pregnant woman is presumed to be better informed concerning the health and safety of other pregnant women – Implications for criminal proceedings Babies in the womb and Security/Justice Administration – Assault on a pregnant woman by another woman who have experienced pregnancy before – Direct kick to the stomach leading to death of pregnant woman and her baby – How treated |
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Child-Killing – Murder – Three children killed by own father and mother wounded – Whether claim that wife told him the children were not his is sufficient provocation – How treated |
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Women and Security – Murder – Previous elopement between two persons without more – Whether creates any legal relations – Open-ended sexual relationship between man and woman where man referred to woman as ‘wife’ even though she maintains serial sexual relationship with other men – Dispute over child arising therefrom – Man’s rival claim against that of woman’s current live-in-lover – Whether support of woman for rival claim and verbal abuse amounts to provocation at law |
| AKANNI V THE QUEEN |
Women and Security – Murder by Burning – Aged mother of village Head locked into a room and house set on fire by mob – Need to show relevant evidence tying accused persons to the crime – Effect of failure thereof |
| Children and Murder/Religion/Security – Baby-killing for ritual purposes – Security of persons in premises of religious nonprofit/charitable organizations – Effect on family lives – Attitude of court | |
| AKPAN v. QUEEN |
Women and Security – Security of neighbourhood and rural communities – Woman murdered by machete wielding assailants who pursued her brother to their family house – Allegation that appellant/killer was ‘collecting’ human heads for certain purposes – Attitude of court thereto |
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Murder – Children and murder – Children and criminal justice – Evidence of 12 year old of being the only eye-witness to the killing of 30 year old mother by accused person – Effect of trial court acceptance of boy’s evidence of mother’s dying declaration as corroboration of his own evidence – Acquittal of accused person Security of household and neighbourhoods – Access to emergency security and medical services – Brutal assault of mother of 12 year old boy in the night – Boy endangering his life to run into the night to call grandmother who endangered her life to rush to the murder scene where deceased daughter lay in pool of blood – How treated |
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ALERI V THE QUEEN
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Women and Murder – Killing of a third party for adultery with wife of accused person – Serial seduction of wife and mockery of husband – Catching wife and paramour in adulterous act – Whether constitutes provocation for killing done subsequently with arrow – How considered |
| ALLEN AND OTHERS V. JAMBO HOLDINGS |
Women/Children and Justice Administration – Widowhood – Fatal Accidents claim – Death of husband/father caused by propeller of plane he was about to board – Injunction restraining movement of the plane pending proceedings – Whether should be discharged because widow could not afford to pay her own legal cost and had to legally aided by State even where widow and her children have a good, arguable case for claiming damages on the ground that it was at least in part the fault of the pilot. |
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ALONGE V ATTORNEY GENERAL WESTERN NIGERIA
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Women and Murder – Killing of a married woman by past lover – Oath-taking as proof of innocence against charge of adultery with married woman – Belief that illness of accused person was caused by oath taken to deny charge of adultery by deceased’s husband – Whether deceased person’s saying to accused “You’ve had it” amounted to provocation – Attitude of Court |
| ANANABA OHUKA & ORS V THE STATE |
Murder and Widowhood – Women as silent victims of crime |
| Murder – Aged woman found dead in muddy waters with matchet cuts | |
| ANI V QUEEN |
Women and Murder in the family – Woman killed by brother-in-law – Whether verbal abuse amounts to provocation – Relevant considerations |
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Murder of a woman by cousin– Complications arising from incestual/taboo sexual relations between cousins – Knowledge by mother of female about sexual relationship – Murder motivated by superstition, sexual taboo and barrenness – How treated |
| ANYIM V. THE STATE |
Women and Justice Administration – Murder – Landlady allegedly killed by tenant with a machete – Plea of insanity by killer – How treated – [Young Women and Romance – Implications for justice administration |
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Women and Murder – Woman murdered via strangulation by her sex partner in a hired inn room – Deceased woman as wife of half brother/cousin of her assailant – How treated |
| ARICHE V STATE |
Women and Murder – Women and Justice Administration – Women last seen alive with accused person – Where death of women is asserted by man as a result of a motor vehicle accident which plunged vehicle woman was travelling in with man into River – How treated |
| Murder – Women and crime – As victim and perpetrator – A woman killing another woman by setting her house on fire while the deceased was sleeping – How considered | |
| ASHARARU DAN SAURI BAMAINA V. KANO NATIVE AUTHORITY |
Children and Right to Life – Murder of a 7 year old – Killed for spilling millet flour and putting sand into it on a farm – Whether act of child qualifies as provocation – How treated |
| Widows – Wife and children of deceased as eye-witnesses to his killing – Accused claims to have been provoked by death of his own son which a herbalist attributed to the deceased – How treated | |
| ATANDA V THE QUEEN |
Women and Murder – Women as Indirect Victims of murder – Murder in polygamous family – Appellant killed deceased who was his brother after failing to kill his step-mother– How treated |
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Wife-Killing: – Women and Domestic violence – Husband stabs wife to death – Plea of drunkenness and provocation. Degree of drunkenness and provocation required to reduce murder to manslaughter – Relevant considerations |
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Women in Business – Murder of woman due to quarrel arising payment for kerosene delivered to neighbour/customer – Children and justice administration – Evidence of children/young people who were eye-witness to assault and death of mother – Material contradictions therein – How treated by Court |
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Wife killing – Mother of accused person as star witness – Testimony of Mother of accused who was first at the scene – Tragedy followed attendance by threesome at marriage ceremony of relative – Plea of insanity – Treatment by court |
| AYO ADEGBITE V. THE STATE |
Security of life – Murder – Wife-murder resulting from acid bath – Plea of provocation by accused husband – How treated |
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Women and Security/Murder – Wife-killing – Husband who killed his wife through multiple stab wounds on her body, liver, intestine and lung – Women and Justice Administration – Effect of failure to properly take an accused person plea on his conviction for murder |
| BAKARI V REGINA |
Wife-Killing – Wife confessing to being in love with another man who was ready to marry her – Whether being greatly provoked is the same thing as ‘sudden provocation’ required under the law to reduce offense of murder to manslaughter |
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