Nigeria, Oct. 16 -- A Higher National Diploma (HND) Mechanical Engineering student of the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY), Ojere in Ogun State, Olalekan Ogunremi, was on Wednesday found guilty of criminal impersonation and sentenced to six months in prison.

The 21-year-old "actually found favour before Justice Patricia Ajoku of the Federal High Court, Ibadan, who commuted the one-year punishment proposed for his offence to six months", the EFCC said in a statement.

"The judge succumbed to his lawyer's passionate plea that his client had missed two examination sessions owing to the criminal charge filed against him by the Ibadan zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

"Ogunremi had pleaded guilty to the o...