Fake LASU Result Lands Institute Provost in 3-Year Jail

A Lagos State High Court in Ikeja has sentenced the provost of Adonai Advanced Institute of Management, Samson Orijugo, to three years’ imprisonment for forging a Lagos State University (LASU) notification of result and misleading a student and his family.

Justice Modupe Nico-Clay convicted Orijugo on two counts of forgery, ruling that the prosecution proved beyond reasonable doubt that he falsely used LASU’s letterhead to claim an affiliation that never existed.

The case began with a chance meeting in 2012. Patience Okoro, a LASU graduate and mother of the affected student, told the court she met Orijugo in a commercial bus after shopping at Iyana Oba Market. According to her, Orijugo introduced himself as the provost of a Benin Republic–based institution affiliated with LASU and later persuaded her to enrol her son.

Despite her doubts, Okoro said Orijugo issued her son a notification of result bearing LASU’s letterhead after he completed his studies. Over time, she made several payments for tuition and other fees, often without receipts, based on repeated promises that the certificate would be issued during convocation.

Trouble surfaced in 2018 when her son sought employment and the documents were discovered to be fake—an experience she said caused him severe psychological trauma.

Investigations later confirmed that Adonai Institute had no affiliation with LASU. An official response from LASU, tendered in court, backed this claim.

In her judgment, Justice Nico-Clay dismissed Orijugo’s defence, stressing that the case was about the forgery of a notification of result, not the issuance of a degree certificate. The court held that Orijugo knowingly presented a forged document as genuine to deceive the student and his family.

“He knew the claim of affiliation was false,” the judge ruled.

Orijugo was consequently convicted and sentenced to three years in prison, bringing to an end a case that highlights the devastating personal cost of academic fraud.