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Court Sentences Oluwatimileyin Ajayi To Death By Hanging For Killing Salome Adaidu

Court Sentences Oluwatimileyin Ajayi To Death By Hanging For Killing Salome Adaidu
  • PublishedJune 26, 2025

A High Court in Lafia, Nasarawa State, has sentenced Oluwatimileyin Ajayi to death by hanging for killing a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Salome Adaidu.

Justice Simon Aboki, who handed down the judgment, found Ajayi guilty of killing and dismembering Adaidu.

He had been charged with one count of culpable homicide contrary to Section 221 of the Penal Code of Northern Nigeria and punishable by death.

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