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Emem Monday Effanga, a 39-year-old makeup artist and sister to popular Nigerian guitarist Fiokee, was brutally murdered by her boyfriend, Ndifreke Isaiah Nelson, on February 6, 2025, in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria.The fatal altercation arose from a domestic dispute over a mobile phone.
The CrimeOn the morning of February 6, 2025 which was also Nelson’s birthday,the 32-year-old suspect visited Effanga at her apartment in Uyo.Nelson demanded to borrow her mobile phone so he could take and upload birthday pictures to social media.
When Effanga refused his request, a violent struggle ensued.Nelson overpowered her, repeatedly struck her head against the wall and floor, and strangled her to death with his hands. He then stole her mobile phone (an Itel Super Phone) and fled the scene, leaving her body in the apartment.
Police operatives from the Akwa Ibom State Police Command discovered Effanga’s body under suspicious circumstances with severe marks of violence on her face and neck. A subsequent post-mortem examination by a pathologist officially confirmed that she died from strangulation and blunt force trauma.
Detectives traced the crime back to Nelson as the last person seen with the victim. On February 8, 2025, at around 2:00 AM, police tracked Nelson to a new-generation church on Nsikak Eduok Avenue, Uyo, where he served as a front-seat usher.
He attempted to flee when he spotted the officers but was swiftly apprehended.During police interrogation,Nelson confessed to the murder and the theft of the phone.Nelson was arraigned before the Akwa Ibom State High Court on a two-count charge of murder and stealing.
In May 2026, the presiding trial judge, Honorable Justice Ekpo Ntekim, found Nelson guilty on both counts.Nelson was sentenced to death by hanging or lethal injection for the murder charge. The court ruled that the lighter penalty for the phone theft was legally subsumed under the capital punishment sentence.
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