Nigeria: UK Court Sentences Two Nigerian Students Who Attacked Friend Over Whose Father Is Richest

20 May 2018

Call it absurdity of the highest order, and you won't be out of order. There's actually no need searching for a better word to describe the stupid acts of two Nigerian students, from a country where millions of their mates live in despondence in terms of access to quality education, who attacked a friend for bragging that his father was the richest.

Elvis Ilonze, an engineering student at the University of Sussex and Daniel Oluyemi, an accounting student from the same university, were handed a one-year prison sentence each by a UK court after both offenders admitted to two counts of assault occasioning grievous bodily harm.

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