Murdered Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Mr Usifo Ataga, has been laid to rest at the Ebony Vaults, Ikoyi, Lagos on Friday, July 30, 2021.
The 50-year-old’s body was interred around 12.30pm in a low-key ceremony attended by his family members, including his wife, and friends.
A service of songs was held amid tight security on Thursday at The Incubator also at Victoria Island followed by a funeral service at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, Victoria Island, Lagos.
The PUNCH reports that newsmen were restricted from covering some aspects of the burial on Friday and photos that were taken by their correspondent were also deleted by a relation of the deceased.
Born in 1971, WuzupNigeria reported that the Super TV CEO was found dead on June 16, 2021 at a short let apartment on Adebowale Oshin Street, Lekki Phase I where he had checked in with his lover, 21-year-old Chidinma Ojukwu, a 300-level Mass Communication student at the University of Lagos.
Ojukwu was consequently arrested on June 23 in her father’s house in Yaba and paraded at the Lagos State Police Command headquarters in Ikeja.
She confessed to having stabbed Ataga multiple times with a knife under the influence of alcohol.
The young lady, who fled the crime scene and withdrew a sum of N380,000 from the victim’s account with his ATM card, later backtracked in a video, absolving herself from the murder.
