A High Court sitting in Obi, a local government in Nasarawa State has sentenced a senior lecturer of the Federal University of Lafia (FULafia) Fred Ekpe-Ayokhai, to six months imprisonment.
This followed an agreement for a plea bargain by the lecturer and compensation to be paid to the Victim, Miss Blessing Mathais.
In 2022, Nigerians were inundated with a viral video indicating anassault on Blessing Mathais by a senior lecturer of the federal university of Lafia, Fred Ekpe-Ayokhai and his children.
The lecturer and his children were afterwards arrested and prosecuted at the state high court in Obi, a local government in Nasarawa State.
In his judgement, the presiding judge, Justice Solomon Ayenajeh convicted Mister Ayokhai and sentenced him to six months imprisonment for criminal conspiracy and to another six months for physical assault.
The court agreed that both sentences will run concurrently in consideration of his plea and that the six month period spent at the custodian centre will be reckoned with.
The court also ordered a six month probation for the children and tasked them with the responsibility of keeping the premises of the High Court clean and to also be of good behaviour.
The lecturer also agreed to an undisclosed amount as compensation for the victim.
TVCNews crew visited the home of Miss Blessing Mathais where she resides with her friends in Lafia, which was where the incident occurred.
Blessing Mathais is an orphan who dropped out of the Taraba State Polytechnic following her inability to continue the payment of her school fees.
Blessing who is 20 years and the first of three girls, lost her mother in 2018 and her father to kidnappers in 2019.
She narrated her ordeal after the ugly incident which occurred in October 2022.
Blessing says she has forgiven her detractors but is yet to get any offer for compensation.
Other neighbors and eyewitnesses share their view on the judgement.
Efforts made to reach out to the convicted lecturer and his lawyer proved abortive.
The state attorney general gave further interpretation to the legal implications of being convicted.
Authorities of Federal University of Lafia had earlier disassociated the school from the conduct of the convicted lecturer but they are yet to make public their position on his job status.
A High Court sitting in Obi, a local government in Nasarawa State has sentenced a senior lecturer of the Federal University of Lafia (FULafia) Fred Ekpe-Ayokhai, to six months imprisonment.
This followed an agreement for a plea bargain by the lecturer and compensation to be paid to the Victim, Miss Blessing Mathais.
In 2022, Nigerians were inundated with a viral video indicating anassault on Blessing Mathais by a senior lecturer of the federal university of Lafia, Fred Ekpe-Ayokhai and his children.
The lecturer and his children were afterwards arrested and prosecuted at the state high court in Obi, a local government in Nasarawa State.
In his judgement, the presiding judge, Justice Solomon Ayenajeh convicted Mister Ayokhai and sentenced him to six months imprisonment for criminal conspiracy and to another six months for physical assault.
The court agreed that both sentences will run concurrently in consideration of his plea and that the six month period spent at the custodian centre will be reckoned with.
The court also ordered a six month probation for the children and tasked them with the responsibility of keeping the premises of the High Court clean and to also be of good behaviour.
The lecturer also agreed to an undisclosed amount as compensation for the victim.
TVCNews crew visited the home of Miss Blessing Mathais where she resides with her friends in Lafia, which was where the incident occurred.
Blessing Mathais is an orphan who dropped out of the Taraba State Polytechnic following her inability to continue the payment of her school fees.
Blessing who is 20 years and the first of three girls, lost her mother in 2018 and her father to kidnappers in 2019.
She narrated her ordeal after the ugly incident which occurred in October 2022.
Blessing says she has forgiven her detractors but is yet to get any offer for compensation.
Other neighbors and eyewitnesses share their view on the judgement.
Efforts made to reach out to the convicted lecturer and his lawyer proved abortive.
The state attorney general gave further interpretation to the legal implications of being convicted.
Authorities of Federal University of Lafia had earlier disassociated the school from the conduct of the convicted lecturer but they are yet to make public their position on his job status.
A High Court sitting in Obi, a local government in Nasarawa State has sentenced a senior lecturer of the Federal University of Lafia (FULafia) Fred Ekpe-Ayokhai, to six months imprisonment.
This followed an agreement for a plea bargain by the lecturer and compensation to be paid to the Victim, Miss Blessing Mathais.
In 2022, Nigerians were inundated with a viral video indicating anassault on Blessing Mathais by a senior lecturer of the federal university of Lafia, Fred Ekpe-Ayokhai and his children.
The lecturer and his children were afterwards arrested and prosecuted at the state high court in Obi, a local government in Nasarawa State.
In his judgement, the presiding judge, Justice Solomon Ayenajeh convicted Mister Ayokhai and sentenced him to six months imprisonment for criminal conspiracy and to another six months for physical assault.
The court agreed that both sentences will run concurrently in consideration of his plea and that the six month period spent at the custodian centre will be reckoned with.
The court also ordered a six month probation for the children and tasked them with the responsibility of keeping the premises of the High Court clean and to also be of good behaviour.
The lecturer also agreed to an undisclosed amount as compensation for the victim.
TVCNews crew visited the home of Miss Blessing Mathais where she resides with her friends in Lafia, which was where the incident occurred.
Blessing Mathais is an orphan who dropped out of the Taraba State Polytechnic following her inability to continue the payment of her school fees.
Blessing who is 20 years and the first of three girls, lost her mother in 2018 and her father to kidnappers in 2019.
She narrated her ordeal after the ugly incident which occurred in October 2022.
Blessing says she has forgiven her detractors but is yet to get any offer for compensation.
Other neighbors and eyewitnesses share their view on the judgement.
Efforts made to reach out to the convicted lecturer and his lawyer proved abortive.
The state attorney general gave further interpretation to the legal implications of being convicted.
Authorities of Federal University of Lafia had earlier disassociated the school from the conduct of the convicted lecturer but they are yet to make public their position on his job status.
A High Court sitting in Obi, a local government in Nasarawa State has sentenced a senior lecturer of the Federal University of Lafia (FULafia) Fred Ekpe-Ayokhai, to six months imprisonment.
This followed an agreement for a plea bargain by the lecturer and compensation to be paid to the Victim, Miss Blessing Mathais.
In 2022, Nigerians were inundated with a viral video indicating anassault on Blessing Mathais by a senior lecturer of the federal university of Lafia, Fred Ekpe-Ayokhai and his children.
The lecturer and his children were afterwards arrested and prosecuted at the state high court in Obi, a local government in Nasarawa State.
In his judgement, the presiding judge, Justice Solomon Ayenajeh convicted Mister Ayokhai and sentenced him to six months imprisonment for criminal conspiracy and to another six months for physical assault.
The court agreed that both sentences will run concurrently in consideration of his plea and that the six month period spent at the custodian centre will be reckoned with.
The court also ordered a six month probation for the children and tasked them with the responsibility of keeping the premises of the High Court clean and to also be of good behaviour.
The lecturer also agreed to an undisclosed amount as compensation for the victim.
TVCNews crew visited the home of Miss Blessing Mathais where she resides with her friends in Lafia, which was where the incident occurred.
Blessing Mathais is an orphan who dropped out of the Taraba State Polytechnic following her inability to continue the payment of her school fees.
Blessing who is 20 years and the first of three girls, lost her mother in 2018 and her father to kidnappers in 2019.
She narrated her ordeal after the ugly incident which occurred in October 2022.
Blessing says she has forgiven her detractors but is yet to get any offer for compensation.
Other neighbors and eyewitnesses share their view on the judgement.
Efforts made to reach out to the convicted lecturer and his lawyer proved abortive.
The state attorney general gave further interpretation to the legal implications of being convicted.
Authorities of Federal University of Lafia had earlier disassociated the school from the conduct of the convicted lecturer but they are yet to make public their position on his job status.
A High Court sitting in Obi, a local government in Nasarawa State has sentenced a senior lecturer of the Federal University of Lafia (FULafia) Fred Ekpe-Ayokhai, to six months imprisonment.
This followed an agreement for a plea bargain by the lecturer and compensation to be paid to the Victim, Miss Blessing Mathais.
In 2022, Nigerians were inundated with a viral video indicating anassault on Blessing Mathais by a senior lecturer of the federal university of Lafia, Fred Ekpe-Ayokhai and his children.
The lecturer and his children were afterwards arrested and prosecuted at the state high court in Obi, a local government in Nasarawa State.
In his judgement, the presiding judge, Justice Solomon Ayenajeh convicted Mister Ayokhai and sentenced him to six months imprisonment for criminal conspiracy and to another six months for physical assault.
The court agreed that both sentences will run concurrently in consideration of his plea and that the six month period spent at the custodian centre will be reckoned with.
The court also ordered a six month probation for the children and tasked them with the responsibility of keeping the premises of the High Court clean and to also be of good behaviour.
The lecturer also agreed to an undisclosed amount as compensation for the victim.
TVCNews crew visited the home of Miss Blessing Mathais where she resides with her friends in Lafia, which was where the incident occurred.
Blessing Mathais is an orphan who dropped out of the Taraba State Polytechnic following her inability to continue the payment of her school fees.
Blessing who is 20 years and the first of three girls, lost her mother in 2018 and her father to kidnappers in 2019.
She narrated her ordeal after the ugly incident which occurred in October 2022.
Blessing says she has forgiven her detractors but is yet to get any offer for compensation.
Other neighbors and eyewitnesses share their view on the judgement.
Efforts made to reach out to the convicted lecturer and his lawyer proved abortive.
The state attorney general gave further interpretation to the legal implications of being convicted.
Authorities of Federal University of Lafia had earlier disassociated the school from the conduct of the convicted lecturer but they are yet to make public their position on his job status.
A High Court sitting in Obi, a local government in Nasarawa State has sentenced a senior lecturer of the Federal University of Lafia (FULafia) Fred Ekpe-Ayokhai, to six months imprisonment.
This followed an agreement for a plea bargain by the lecturer and compensation to be paid to the Victim, Miss Blessing Mathais.
In 2022, Nigerians were inundated with a viral video indicating anassault on Blessing Mathais by a senior lecturer of the federal university of Lafia, Fred Ekpe-Ayokhai and his children.
The lecturer and his children were afterwards arrested and prosecuted at the state high court in Obi, a local government in Nasarawa State.
In his judgement, the presiding judge, Justice Solomon Ayenajeh convicted Mister Ayokhai and sentenced him to six months imprisonment for criminal conspiracy and to another six months for physical assault.
The court agreed that both sentences will run concurrently in consideration of his plea and that the six month period spent at the custodian centre will be reckoned with.
The court also ordered a six month probation for the children and tasked them with the responsibility of keeping the premises of the High Court clean and to also be of good behaviour.
The lecturer also agreed to an undisclosed amount as compensation for the victim.
TVCNews crew visited the home of Miss Blessing Mathais where she resides with her friends in Lafia, which was where the incident occurred.
Blessing Mathais is an orphan who dropped out of the Taraba State Polytechnic following her inability to continue the payment of her school fees.
Blessing who is 20 years and the first of three girls, lost her mother in 2018 and her father to kidnappers in 2019.
She narrated her ordeal after the ugly incident which occurred in October 2022.
Blessing says she has forgiven her detractors but is yet to get any offer for compensation.
Other neighbors and eyewitnesses share their view on the judgement.
Efforts made to reach out to the convicted lecturer and his lawyer proved abortive.
The state attorney general gave further interpretation to the legal implications of being convicted.
Authorities of Federal University of Lafia had earlier disassociated the school from the conduct of the convicted lecturer but they are yet to make public their position on his job status.
A High Court sitting in Obi, a local government in Nasarawa State has sentenced a senior lecturer of the Federal University of Lafia (FULafia) Fred Ekpe-Ayokhai, to six months imprisonment.
This followed an agreement for a plea bargain by the lecturer and compensation to be paid to the Victim, Miss Blessing Mathais.
In 2022, Nigerians were inundated with a viral video indicating anassault on Blessing Mathais by a senior lecturer of the federal university of Lafia, Fred Ekpe-Ayokhai and his children.
The lecturer and his children were afterwards arrested and prosecuted at the state high court in Obi, a local government in Nasarawa State.
In his judgement, the presiding judge, Justice Solomon Ayenajeh convicted Mister Ayokhai and sentenced him to six months imprisonment for criminal conspiracy and to another six months for physical assault.
The court agreed that both sentences will run concurrently in consideration of his plea and that the six month period spent at the custodian centre will be reckoned with.
The court also ordered a six month probation for the children and tasked them with the responsibility of keeping the premises of the High Court clean and to also be of good behaviour.
The lecturer also agreed to an undisclosed amount as compensation for the victim.
TVCNews crew visited the home of Miss Blessing Mathais where she resides with her friends in Lafia, which was where the incident occurred.
Blessing Mathais is an orphan who dropped out of the Taraba State Polytechnic following her inability to continue the payment of her school fees.
Blessing who is 20 years and the first of three girls, lost her mother in 2018 and her father to kidnappers in 2019.
She narrated her ordeal after the ugly incident which occurred in October 2022.
Blessing says she has forgiven her detractors but is yet to get any offer for compensation.
Other neighbors and eyewitnesses share their view on the judgement.
Efforts made to reach out to the convicted lecturer and his lawyer proved abortive.
The state attorney general gave further interpretation to the legal implications of being convicted.
Authorities of Federal University of Lafia had earlier disassociated the school from the conduct of the convicted lecturer but they are yet to make public their position on his job status.
A High Court sitting in Obi, a local government in Nasarawa State has sentenced a senior lecturer of the Federal University of Lafia (FULafia) Fred Ekpe-Ayokhai, to six months imprisonment.
This followed an agreement for a plea bargain by the lecturer and compensation to be paid to the Victim, Miss Blessing Mathais.
In 2022, Nigerians were inundated with a viral video indicating anassault on Blessing Mathais by a senior lecturer of the federal university of Lafia, Fred Ekpe-Ayokhai and his children.
The lecturer and his children were afterwards arrested and prosecuted at the state high court in Obi, a local government in Nasarawa State.
In his judgement, the presiding judge, Justice Solomon Ayenajeh convicted Mister Ayokhai and sentenced him to six months imprisonment for criminal conspiracy and to another six months for physical assault.
The court agreed that both sentences will run concurrently in consideration of his plea and that the six month period spent at the custodian centre will be reckoned with.
The court also ordered a six month probation for the children and tasked them with the responsibility of keeping the premises of the High Court clean and to also be of good behaviour.
The lecturer also agreed to an undisclosed amount as compensation for the victim.
TVCNews crew visited the home of Miss Blessing Mathais where she resides with her friends in Lafia, which was where the incident occurred.
Blessing Mathais is an orphan who dropped out of the Taraba State Polytechnic following her inability to continue the payment of her school fees.
Blessing who is 20 years and the first of three girls, lost her mother in 2018 and her father to kidnappers in 2019.
She narrated her ordeal after the ugly incident which occurred in October 2022.
Blessing says she has forgiven her detractors but is yet to get any offer for compensation.
Other neighbors and eyewitnesses share their view on the judgement.
Efforts made to reach out to the convicted lecturer and his lawyer proved abortive.
The state attorney general gave further interpretation to the legal implications of being convicted.
Authorities of Federal University of Lafia had earlier disassociated the school from the conduct of the convicted lecturer but they are yet to make public their position on his job status.