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Justice Ibrahim Yusuf of the Kwara State High Court sentenced two students, identified as Abdulazeez Ismail and Ajala Olawatimileyin, to death by hanging for the murder of Blessing Olajide, a 300-level undergraduate of the University of Ilorin. Recall that Olajide was raped and murdered by the duo on June 2, 2021, at her sister’s residence in the Tanke area of Ilorin, Kwara State. The court also sentenced another student, Oyeyemi Omogbolahan, to life imprisonment. Justice Yusuf condemned two siblings: Abdulkarim Shuaib (aka Easy) and Kareem Rasheed (Rashworld), to three years imprisonment each for withdrawing money from the Guarantee Trust Bank account of the deceased, a few days after her murder. The court, however, discharged and acquitted three other accused persons: Abdul...

400-Level student at the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), Salaudeen Waliu, popularly identified as Captain Walz, who reportedly beat up a lecturer, Mrs Zakariyyah, to stupor after an altercation on his academics has opened up on what led to the unfortunate incident. Salaudeen Waliu, while speaking to University Campus Journalists, UCJ-Ilorin, claimed that “months before the last Thursday incident, he was arrested and locked up for two months, thereby warranting his inability to attend SIWES duties.” He claimed to have gone to the office of the female lecturer to beg her to help wave the mandatory SIWES course which he missed due to unforeseen circumstances but was always met with negative responses. According to him, he had gone to Lagos to meet a friend for the first time but was...

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Court Sentences Two To Death By Hanging For Raping UNILORIN Student

Why I Beat Lecturer To Coma – UNILORIN Student