Crime
Update: 14-yr-old girl arrested for stabbing FUT lecturer to death
A 14-year-old girl, identified as Joy Afekafe, has been arrested in connection with the gruesome murder of a lecturer of the Federal University of Technology (FUT), Minna, Dr. Funmilola Adefolalu.
National Daily reports that the lecturer was found dead in a pool of her blood with multiple stab wounds on Sunday, October 29, 2023.
Joy, who was paraded at the Bosso Police Station in Minna, Niger State, admitted to the crime and stated that she had visited the lecturer’s house to confront and assault her for sending her packing.
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She said she served as the deceased’s housemaid for about three weeks and was laid off due to her misdeed which the deceased could no longer condone.
After she was laid off, Joy met two of her classmates, Walex and Smart, and narrated her ordeal to them and the trio conspired and attacked the lecturer at her residence on the ill-fated Sunday morning, leading to her death.
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