Samson Orijugo, the Provost of Adonai Advanced Institute of Management, has been sentenced to three years in prison for forging a Lagos State University (LASU) document.
The judgment was delivered on Wednesday by Justice Modupe Nico-Clay at the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja.
The court found Orijugo guilty of falsifying a result notification on a LASU letterhead to deceptively claim an affiliation between his institute and the university.
This forged document was issued to a former student, John Chibuzor Okoro, after the provost misrepresented the school’s status.
Justice Nico-Clay ruled that the prosecution successfully proved the charges beyond a reasonable doubt.
Evidence before the court confirmed that no such affiliation existed.
Delivering his judgment, the judge dismissed Orijugo’s defence, ruling that the offence centred on forgery, not the issuance of a degree certificate.
She held that Orijugo knowingly presented the document as genuine to deceive the student and his family.
Orijugo was convicted on the two counts bordering on forgery.
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