The slain Super TV Chief Executive Officer, Usifo Ataga, has been buried at Ebony Vaults, Ikoyi, Lagos.
According to source, he was buried around 12.30pm 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 our correspondent were also deleted by a relation of the deceased,” source revealed.
CampaignPilot in June reported that Ataga, until his death would turn 50 years old on June 18, was missing on Sunday, June 13, by his family and friends after he didn’t return to his home in Banana Island and he also didn’t turn up at his Victoria Island office.
All efforts to reach him, proved abortive and this caused distress to his family who live in Abuja.
Unfortunately, his lifeless body was found on Friday morning, June 18, in a flat in Lekki phase 1 where he had checked in with his lover, 21-year-old Chidinma Ojukwu, a 300-level Mass Communication student at the University of Lagos, with multiple stab wounds.
Ojukwu who fled the crime scene and withdrew a sum of N380,000 from the victim’s account with his ATM card.
She was consequently arrested on June 23 in her father’s house in Yaba and paraded at the Lagos State Police Command headquarters in Ikeja.
She confessed to having stabbed Ataga multiple times with a knife under the influence of alcohol.