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NANS Zone C Honor Engr Ehijiele as Icon of Youths and Students /Cynosure of National Development

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National Association of Nigerian Students NANS Zone C has honored Engr Courage Ehijiele as Icon of Youths and Students /Cynosure of National Development.

The Coordinator of the National Association of Nigerian Students NANS Zone C, Comrade Friday EGGA Daniel who himself bestow this great honor to Engr Courage says, he’s love for Nigerian Students is laudable and must be appreciated by all

Engr. Courage Ehijiele who is a Politician and a Philanthropist thank NANS Zone C for finding him worthy for this great HONOR. That his love for humanity is a none stop thing and he will continue to do more

He also thank President Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR for piloting the country’s affairs to a renew hope

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Court sentences killers of Ogun couple, son, to death by hanging

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The Ogun State High Court in Abeokuta on Monday sentenced three persons to death for killing a couple, Kehinde and Bukola Fatinoye and their son, Oreoluwa, on 1 January 2023.

Trial judge Basirat Adebowale sentenced the trio – Lekan Adekanbi, was the family’s driver, Odetola Ahmed and Adeniyi Waheed – in a judgement which lasted for more than three hours, DailyPost reports.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the defendants were charged with 24 counts of armed robbery, armed robbery, conspiracy to murder, murder, arson, escape from lawful custody, perverting the course of justice and receiving stolen property, among others.

Gruesome murder

The assailants reportedly trailed Mr Fatinoye, a former employee of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), and his wife, Bukola, alongside their son, Oreoluwa, as they were returning home from the 2022/2023 crossover service at the Christ Anglican Church Iporo-Ake, Abeokuta.

The couple who lived at Oba Karunwi Road, a street behind former Governor Ibikunle Amosun’s residence, in Ibara GRA, Abeokuta, at about 1:30 a.m. were robbed, gruesomely murdered and their house set ablaze.

The assailants reportedly tied their son, Oreoluwa, and adopted son, Felix, with ropes and threw them into a river along Adigbe-Obada Road.

Penalties

Delivering judgement on Monday, the judge held that the prosecution proved its cases against the three defendants beyond reasonable doubt.

She found the three principal defendants guilty of murder.

The judge held that the convicts did not deserve mercy, as their lawyers had requested, because of the way they killed the couple and their son.

She convicted them of counts one to nine, handing them death by hanging or lethal injection, life imprisonment with hard labour, 14 years imprisonment among others for the various offences.

“The sentence of this court on Adekambi Lekan in respect of count II is that you be hanged by neck until you’re dead or by lethal injection.

“May God have mercy on your soul,” the court held.

The judge also convicted Ms Fadairo, the wife of Mr Adekanbi, to two years imprisonment for perverting the course of justice by hiding her husband.

Meanwhile, Mr Adekanbi’s mother, Adenike, was also sentenced to one year imprisonment for making false statements to police officers.

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