Police confirm death of lovers in Lagos apartment

Feb. 5, 2024

The Police Command in Lagos State has confirmed the deaths of a man and a woman, suspected to be lovers, in an apartment at Ojodu area of the state.

The command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday.

Hundeyin said that the sudden and unnatural deaths were reported to the Ojodu Police Division on Sunday at about 9.10 a.m.

He said that the lifeless bodies of the lovers – one Adebayo Adeseko, 30, and his partner, Sarah Adesanya, 36, were found in their apartment at No. 8B, Gbete Street, off Shoyemi Bamaco Estate, Ojodu Berger, Lagos.

The spokesperson said that on the strength of the information, a team of operatives from the station immediately went to the scene, took photographs and evacuated the corpses to the mortuary for autopsy, while investigation into their death continues.

The man was a filmmaker, who had a misunderstanding on Saturday with his lover, which degenerated to a heated argument and later to a fight, resulting in the woman’s death.

The man was said to have allegedly stabbed himself to death after he discovered that the woman had died. (NAN)