A 28-year-old teacher, Idowu Daniel, was yesterday, remanded in prison custody by an Ikeja Chief Magistrate’s Court for allegedly defiling a 17-year-old secondary school student.

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Chief Magistrate Olufunke Sule-Amzat, who did not take the plea of the defendant, ordered that he should be remanded in Kirikiri Prisons; that the Police should send the case file to the Director of Public Prosecutions, DPP, for advice, and adjourned the case till October 21.

The defendant, who lives at Abule-Egba area of Lagos, is facing a charge of defilement.

Earlier, the prosecutor, ASP Benson Emuerhi, told the court that the defendant on June 27 at 9.25a.m. unlawfully had carnal knowledge of his student in the biology laboratory at Anastasia Comprehensive College, Abule-Egba, Ikeja.

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