Usifo Ataga, Super TV boss buried in Lagos

 

The Super TV Chief Executive Officer, Usifo Ataga, whose murder is still shrouded in mystery, has been buried at Ebony Vaults, Ikoyi, Lagos.

He was buried around 12.30pm on Friday, in a low-key ceremony attended by his family members, including his wife, and friends.

Journalists were restricted from covering some aspects of the burial. Photos taken by one of the local newspaper correspondents were confiscated and subsequently deleted by a relation of the deceased, who accosted the photographer.

The lifeless body of the 50-year-old Ataga was found on June 16, 2021, at a short-let apartment on Adebowale Oshin Street, Lekki Phase I, Lagos State, where he had reportedly checked in with his lover, 21-year-old Chidinma Ojukwu, a 300-level Mass Communication student of the University of Lagos.

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Ojukwu was consequently arrested by the police on June 23 in her father’s house in Yaba and paraded before the media at the Lagos State Police Command headquarters in Ikeja.

She initially confessed to having stabbed Ataga multiple times with a knife under the influence of alcohol, but later backtracked in a video, absolving herself from the murder.

The alleged killer remains in police custody while the police continues with its investigation.