Nigeria, Nov. 29 -- A Rivers State High Court in Port Harcourt has convicted and sentenced a man to death by hanging for the murder of his girlfriend, Justina Otuene, in 2023.

The convict, Damian Okoligwe, was a 400-level student of petrochemical engineering at the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT).

The victim, Ms Otuene, was also a 300-level student of biochemistry at UNIPORT.

PREMIUM TIMES had reported in October 2023, how the 26-year-old man killed and then dismembered his 20-year-old girlfriend in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, South-south Nigeria.

Delivering judgement on Friday, the trial judge, Chinwe Nsirim-Nwosu, held that the prosecution proved beyond reasonable doubt the three ingredients of a murder c...