x Another Nigerian man in the USA kills his wife - then kills himself | August 20, 2010 Adding to the increasing incidents of Nigerian men in the USA killing their wives, a 64-year-old Nigerian professor, Chukwudubem Okafor, commited a �murder-suicide� when he shot his Jamaican wife, Cheryl, 37, and then turned the gun on himself. Their bodies were found inside his sister in-law's home in Reading, Pennsylvania where Prof. Okafor had arranged to meet with his wife who had left him a few days earlier. Police say they found a small handgun near the couple's bodies and that they had both suffered gunshot wounds. A police-spokesperson said, �A small-calibre handgun was found near the bodies. The investigation is closed and the manner of death of Mr. Okafor was ruled as a suicide and the death of his wife, a homicide; he shot her and then shot himself. The motive is that they had marital problems and this was domestic dispute,� In the last few years, there have been mutliple cases of Nigerian men killing their wives. Some recent incidents - - In July 2010, a Nigerian man living in Tampa, Florida, USA was accused of killing his wife after a fight broke out between them and he told the neighbours to call 911 because his wife was having heart attack but when the police arrived they discovered a baseball bat covered with the wife's blood - In 2008, a Nigerian man living in South Carolina, USA, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for stabbing his wife to death. - In 2008, another Nigerian man in the USA, called 911 and said, "I have killed the woman that mess my life up.... a woman that had destroyed me". He was charged with first-degree, premeditated murder. - In 2007, a Nigerian man in Garland, Texas, USA was arrested by police after he called to inform them of his wife's death from blunt-force trauma to the head.