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By Chika Onyeani, posted August 21, 2010

 

 

 

The spate of wife killings by Igbo men in America reached its highest level on Sunday, August 15, when a professor of English at Kutztown University in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, shot his wife several times and then turned the gun and shot himself once in the temple.  Both wife and husband died instantly.  With the exception of Nigerian-born pharmacist, Olufemi Ademoye, who bludgeoned his wife to death with a baseball bat in June, 2010, all the killings have been by Igbo, and their victims have been registered nurses; again with the exception of Ademoye. (READ MORE)