{"id":13232,"date":"2018-11-04T22:36:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T22:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=13232"},"modified":"2018-11-04T22:36:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T22:36:48","slug":"woman-kills-husband-three-children-and-self-in-makurdi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=13232","title":{"rendered":"Woman kills husband, three children, and self in Makurdi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Police Command in Benue has confirmed the killing of a man and his three children by his wife, who also took her own life.<br \/>\n\u201cThe man, Mr Nicholas Adetsav, a staff of Makurdi Local Government Council, and his children, were killed on Friday night in Makurdi. His wife, who we believe is responsible for the death of the quartet, also killed herself.<br \/>\n\u201cFrom the information available to us, the woman has been having issues with her husband which might have culminated into this,\u201d Mr Moses Yamu, the command\u2019s spokesman, told the\u00a0News Agency 0f Nigeria, on Saturday in Makurdi.<br \/>\nYamu said that the couple, who lived at Vandeikya street, were both staff of Makurdi Local Government Council.<br \/>\n\u201cThey have been having issues. Just yesterday (Friday), the woman was seen with a pestle trying to smash her husband\u2019s car. No one knows the cause of their frequent fights.\u201d<br \/>\nHe said that when police went to their\u00a0house, they found the man foaming in the mouth, the three kids already dead, while the woman, who was also dead, was found holding a knife in her hand.<br \/>\n\u201cThe incident happened around 8:30pm on Friday; from what we have gathered, the couple fight on daily basis,\u201d he told\u00a0NAN.<br \/>\nYamu said that police is investigating the incident. The corpses had been deposited at the St. Theresa\u2019s Catholic Hospital, Makurdi.<br \/>\nThe Chairman, Makurdi Local Government Council, Mrs. Akange Audu, confirmed that the couple were employees of the local government council.<br \/>\n\u201cThe husband worked in the Department of Finance while his wife worked with the Department of Agriculture,\u201d she said.<br \/>\nBy <strong>NAN<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Police Command in Benue has confirmed the killing of a man and his three children by his wife, who also took her own life. \u201cThe man, Mr Nicholas Adetsav, a staff of Makurdi Local Government Council, and his children, were killed on Friday night in Makurdi. His wife, who we believe is responsible for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}