Nigeria, July 2 -- A final-year student of the Government Science Technical College, Bukuru, Plateau State, has been sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of a teacher over a school meal.

In the judgement delivered on Tuesday by Silas Bakfur of the Plateau State High Court in Jos, Odey Emmanuel was accused of stabbing Job Dashe in the chest with a knife, leading to the teacher's death.

The judge, Mr Bakfur, described Mr Emmanuel's act as deliberate and premeditated and condemned the defendant to death.

In July 2022, Mr Dashe, a teacher at Government Science Technical College, Bukuru, located in Jos South Local Government Area, and a colleague supervised a students' meal session in the school kitchen when Mr Emmanuel was caught t...