Chidiebube Okeoma, OwerriA retired Director-General of the Imo Broadcasting Corporation, Theophilus Okere, has allegedly stabbed his wife, Beatrice, to death. However, the state police command said it had launched a manhunt for the octogenarian. The incident, which happened at Imerienwe in the Ngor-Okpala Local Government Area of the state, has thrown residents of the community into confusion. Our correspondent learnt that residents rushed the woman, who was in her seventies, to an undisclosed hospital, where she was pronounced dead. “The neighbours refused to disclose the hospital, where the woman was rushed to before she died.

Source: Punch May 26, 2020 00:45 UTC