Nigeria, Feb. 16 -- A 21-year-old apprentice has allegedly killed his mentor in Anambra State after attacking him with a pestle.

The apprentice, Chiemerie Anieke, was said to have struck the man, Ikechukwu Nwite, on the head with the pestle after an earlier altercation.

The incident happened in the early hours of Sunday in Fegge, an urban community in the Onitsha South Local Government Area of the state.

Sources told PREMIUM TIMES that the deceased, a medicine dealer, had been complaining that the apprentice usually returned to the house late at night.

One of the sources, who claimed to be the late Mr Nwite's friend, said the latest incident occurred when the apprentice returned late on Saturday night and was asked by the deceased to ...