A 27-year-old fisherman, Fatai Yussuf, has been remanded in a custodial center in Lagos over alleged killing of his six-week-old daughter whom he threw into a lagoon, because she was sick.
Lagos court remands fisherman for allegedly killing his newborn baby
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A 27-year-old fisherman, Fatai Yussuf, has been remanded in a custodial centre in Lagos over alleged killing of his six-week-old daughter whom he threw into a lagoon because she was sick.
The Chief Magistrate, P.E. Nwaka, gave the remand order at a Magistrates’ Court in Yaba, Lagos on Wednesday.
Yussuf is facing a count charge of murder, but his plea was not taken by the court.
Nwaka, ordered that the defendant be kept at the Ikoyi Custodial Center, pending legal advice from the Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP).