A Yaba Magistrate’s Court have remanded one Taiye Adebayo for allegedly stabbing his colleague, Shonibare Surajudeen, to death during an altercation.

The police brought the 25-year-old defendant before Magistrate L.Y. Balogun on a one-count charge bordering on murder.

Adebayo was alleged to have stabbed the 36-year-old Surajudeen while they were quarrelling, although the cause of the quarrel was not disclosed in court.

According to the information gathered in court, Adebayo confronted the deceased, Sarajudeen, over the undisclosed issue, and they started quarrelling, and in the course of their quarrel, the defendant, Adebayo, allegedly used a knife to stab him.

The deceased was, however, rushed to the Mainland General Hospital, Yaba, but was pronounced dead on arrival by a medical doctor on duty.

The police prosecutor, Chekwube Okeh, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on November 19, 2023 at Ilaje, the Ajah area of Lagos State around 1.29 pm.

According to Okeh, the offence committed by the defendant is contrary to Section 222 and punishable under Section 223 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.