The woman was paraded at the headquarter of the police command with twenty-five other criminals, Daily Post reports.

Fatai Owoseni, the state Commissioner of Police confirmed the allegation in a statement.

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According to him, the woman who lives in Lekki, Lagos paid an assassin a sum of N600,000 to have her husband killed.

“One of the hired assassins has confessed to the crime and we are currently on the trail of the other assassins."

“The woman was picked up after a suspect was arrested and he named her as the person who contracted him to kill her husband."

“He said that the woman paid him N600, 000 to eliminate her husband”, he said.