Nigeria: Court Remands Woman for Setting Nine-Year-Old Housemaid Ablaze

17 December 2013

A Yaba Chief Magistrate's Court on Tuesday in Lagos ruled that a woman, Nkese Iroakazi, who allegedly murdered and set ablaze a nine-year-old housemaid, Eno Bassey, had a case to answer.

The Chief Magistrate, Yewande Aje-Afunwa, gave the ruling at the resumed hearing of the case following a report by the State Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

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