An abusive husband beat his wife to death with their son's skateboard while police outside waited for permission to enter from superiors.

Officers heard 'a number of bangs' inside the house which Olubunmi Abodunde had gone into, despite bail conditions imposed the day before that banned him from the property following another violent episode.

When they finally entered 25 minutes later, they found Taiwo Abodunde, 41, with her 'skull smashed in'.

Abodunde, 48, who had been repeatedly investigated by Suffolk Police about domestic violence, was due to go on trial for murder but changed his plea to guilty yesterday after a jury had been sworn in.

Judge Martyn Levett, sitting at Ipswich Crown Court, warned him the only possible sentence was life imprisonment.

Officers heard 'a number of bangs' inside the house which Olubunmi Abodunde had gone into, despite bail conditions imposed the day before that banned him from the property following another violent episode.

Abodunde had a history of jealousy and suspicion and accused his wife of having affairs. He had been investigated by police a number of times over alleged domestic violence incidents before his wife death.

He was arrested on April 27 last year when police arrived at the couple's home in Newmarket, Suffolk, and found Mrs Abodunde with a split lip.

Later that day he was freed on police bail with a condition that he stayed away from the marital home and didn't approach his wife.

But after working a night shift at Tesco, he went home just after 9am to allegedly pick up his mobile phone.

Two officers arrived at 9.20am to take a statement from Mrs Abodunde about the previous night's incident and heard repeated banging noises inside.

But it wasn't until 9.55am that they forced their way in after getting approval from senior officers and found Mrs Abodunde 'obviously dead' near the front door.

A post-mortem examination later showed she had been throttled until she fell unconscious, then stamped on until her ribs were broken, before her husband used the skateboard to finish her off. The blows were so violent that the skateboard was damaged.

Prosecutor Simon Spence KC told the court the banging officers heard was likely to have been Abodunde continuing to attack his wife after she was unconscious or dead.

During the hearing, the court heard the couple, who had three children, arrived in the UK from Nigeria in 2022.

As well as clashes over the alleged affairs, there were also arguments about bills.

Mrs Abodunde had a job as a care home assistant in Cambridge but her husband, who had trained as a civil engineer, was unable to find work in his profession and took shifts at Tesco and Wickes.

After his arrest for the murder, Abodunde was taken to hospital 'because he appeared to have some sort of mental episode'.

He later claimed in a statement to police he had acted in self-defence, saying: 'My wife has subjected me to physical abuse for a number of years.

'On November 28, we got into an argument. She ran at me with a knife, I grabbed the knife and cut my hand. I was defending myself.'

But the court heard while he did have an injury to his hand, there wasn't a knife near his wife's body.

Venezuela is introducing economic reforms including new banknotes that lop five zeros off its fast-depreciating currency as the country battles hyperinflation.

DevilsEqual:



Do u guys ven follow the updates and Stats from MBS??
We've had less import in the last 9months and even gained more from Exports toward the last quater of 2023 yet u think this sudden 100000% increase in importation is the only way out

U talk as if Nigeria hasnt been import-dependent since ages yet $ never rose to this level


I think most of u who think "Textbook Jargon" wouldnt work here in Nigeria actually think theories are being passed with no proper tests, arguement, reality checks and counter arguments

U prolly failed Economics in your waec and Neco...Thank Goodness, U didnt need it to advance your University education

Again and again, Latin America has seen the populist scenario played to an unfortunate end. Upon gaining power, populist governments attempt to revive the economy through massive spending. After an initial recovery, inflation reemerges and the government responds with wage an price controls. Shortages, overvaluation, burgeoning deficits, and capital flight soon precipitate economic crisis, with a subsequent collapse of the populist regime.

Collaborating with CBN by increasing interest rates to attract FPI. I find this to be short-sighted if attracting hot money is the perceived benefit of raising interest rates and not the reduction of inflation, & FDI. Also, our real interest rates are still negative, so how will this work? ❌

IamAtikulate:

This one don go copy Economics text book.

increasing Ms stimulates spending which exerts inflationary pressure on the economy, consequently leading to demand-pulled inflation. It's a pity that Economics textbook you copied didn't tell you that.

By and large, these episodes all occurred because of a rapid (or accelerating) increase in the supply of money that wasn't matched by a corresponding increase in goods and services.

Those Igbos brains is fvcked up.
They hate tinubu
They hate dangote


Innoson is an "angel" 😂
Perhaps they would say tinubu should had visited innoson instead😂

Imagine people continually wailing because of the high price of cement and now that something had been done about it are still unhappy because tinubu was the man to get it right and not their failure Obi the Pandora thief 😂🏃

AntiZikist:


You have 7 plus years to go.


After which you will begin drag Aboki again.


Nothing for you sore losers

NHS nurses being investigated for ‘industrial-scale’ qualifications fraud

Scam involves more than 700 healthcare workers who used proxies to pass test in Nigeria enabling them to work in the UK

Hundreds of frontline NHS staff are treating patients despite being under investigation for their part in an alleged “industrial-scale” qualifications fraud.

More than 700 nurses are caught up in a potential scandal, which a former head of the Royal College of Nursing said could put NHS patients at risk.

The scam allegedly involves proxies impersonating nurses and taking a key test in Nigeria, which must be passed for them to become registered and allowed to work in the UK.

The average figure for 2014 was 8.1 percent. The inflation figure was 8 percent in January and ended with 8 percent. While in 2015, the average inflation rate was 9.01 percent with 8.2 percent recorded in January and ended in December with 9.55 percent.

In 2016, the country could no longer maintain the single digit inflation rate with the figure jumping to 15.6 percent on average. It entered the year with 9.62 percent and ended it with 18.55 percent.

christejames:
APC will add this as an achievement!

Growth of herbal medicine practitioners

Catapault:
FANTASTIC NEWS.

This is why they say “In every cloud there is a silver lining”.

If it takes poverty and inflation to force us to look inwards as a people instead of depending on foreigners for everything including medicine, like some lost people with no heritage, then more grease to their elbows.

What they MUST do now is standardise, brand, and package the medicine in the right way and market them effectively.

Great university courses in Traditional African Medicine should be established up to doctorate level.

I want to see university-trained DOCTORS of Traditional Nigerian Medicine.

Excellent stuff.

Everydaylove:
Both Buhari and Tinubu have wrecked this country. He had his personal ambition since but not for the betterment of the people. I only blamed the braindead mumu supporters Tinubu used to achieve his selfish goal.

ivolt:

You guys continuously underestimate the value of financial prudence in economic management.

If you are right, Lamido Sanusi should have been the best CBN governor since
oil price was highest during his tenure.
But in real fact, the best CBN governors were the one in charge during the
lowest average oil price of 1999 to 2007. That is Joseph Oladele and Charles Soludo.
Joseph even managed to hit a 10% growth rate which is unmatched since then.

Nigeria's FDI at 1999 was about $1 billion and it increased to $6 billion in 2007.
If a 600% rise is not significant enough, you should remember that somebody actually took it from
4 billion dollars in 2015 to negative value by the end of 2022. Now, that's a record.


Before you ask, my criteria for best is based on external reserve accumulation, exchange rate control and economic growth rate.

nairalanda1:


I really can't help you son.

You can call me APC supporter, but subsidy has to go, and things have to be sold at a profit.

If it makes you go gaga, so be it

Peace, TInubu worshipper. One day, APC and PDP would be kicked out...

Birdbyrde440:


Who is "we"?

You think the average joe will source more money to keep buying $?
What if he bought with his last money?
Or sold his home based on your advice just to buy $ and you come and tell him to buy more, from where will he get the money?

coleon:
There are still a lot of mystery around this crude supply to Dangote by shell. The global pricing for crude oil is denominated in USD hence why it's refered to as petrodollar. Now if the forward contract between Dangote and Shell is denominated in USD it then means Dangote will have to pay Shell in USD for the supply.
The only way Dangote will pay Shell in USD is if he sells to local petrol supplier also in USD which is why I am laughing at those thinking this arrangement will reduce pressure on FX.
My expectation is that Dangote will get her supply directly from NNPC and they can work out a way of making payments in NGN.
I suppose this is the reason the clueless NNPC MD already sent a disclaimer that nothing will change in the pricing of petrol.
I will be waiting till next year to watch and see how events unfold.

yoruboid:
I laugh at those hailing Abia for its insane and ambitious borrowing

The same Abia spending N30bn on a 6km road

Capital projects are the biggest scams by Governments and that’s how they loot funds

A Nigerian businessman who appeared to be closing in on a takeover of the Premier League football club Sheffield United is being sued by the US financial watchdog for a fraud, in which he is alleged to have faked documents and made up companies out of “thin air”.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said on Monday it had filed charges against Dozy Mmobuosi, claiming he inflated his companies’ financial performance by hundreds of millions of dollars to defraud investors.

The regulator filed its claim against Mmobuosi personally, and his company Tingo Group, which is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange, and two related companies, Tingo International Holdings and Agri-Fintech Holdings.

The regulator alleges Mmobuosi orchestrated a “staggering” fraud the roots of which date back years.

In a court filing, the SEC said the fraud related mostly to Tingo Mobile, a private Nigerian company Mmobuosi founded that purportedly sourced and supplied mobile handsets and related services to farmers in Nigeria.

It claimed Mmobuosi created fake bank statements and forged supporting documents to give the impression that Tingo Mobile was a “thriving” business worth more than $1bn, when in fact it had “no meaningful customers or operations and about $15 in its bank account”.

He allegedly engineered the sale of Tingo Mobile from Agri-Fintech to Nasdaq-listed Tingo Group in an all-share merger, meaning the fake revenues were incorporated into the new company.

He then repeated the trick with the sale of Tingo Foods, described as an “elaborate fiction”, to Tingo Group for $204m earlier this year.

“Mmobuosi and the entities he controls have fraudulently obtained hundreds of millions in money or property through these schemes,” the SEC said in a statement.

Global leading rating agency, Standard & Poor’s has affirmed Nigeria’s sovereign credit rating at B+ and revised its outlook from negative to stable.

This comes about a week after another rating firm, Moody’s Investor Services changed its outlook on Nigeria’s economy to Stable from Negative.

In a statement released today, U.S. based Standard & Poor’s, says its stable outlook on Nigeria, indicates that covid-19 related pressures will continue to weigh on the country’s GDP growth and fiscal and external metrics, but improved oil prices will support GDP growth.