Christianah Oluwatoyin Oluwasesin, a Christian female Nigerian schoolteacher at the Government Secondary School of Gandu in northern
Aluke Musa Yila, a fellow teacher at the school, reported that Oluwasesin had collected papers, books and bags before an exam in accordance with school procedures to prevent cheating. “Soon after the bags collected by 
Oluwasesin were dropped in front of the class, one of the girls in the class began to cry,” Musa said. “She told her colleagues that she had a copy of the Koran in her bag, that Oluwasesin touched the bag, and that by doing so she had desecrated the Koran since she was a Christian.”
Despite Musa and the school principal’s best efforts to protect Oluwasesin in inner offices, a growing group of rioters broke in and dragged her outside. Repeated efforts by a teacher known only as Kabiru and the school principal to protect her were overcome by the attackers’ efforts.
“The principal succeeded in getting Oluwasesin up to the school gate,” Musa said. “There was a house near the gate, and he dragged her into the house, but the rioting Muslims went into the house and dragged her out again. This time, they clubbed her to death, brought old mats and placed dirt on her corpse, and then burned the body.”
Oluwasesin was the mother of two children. The day of her death would have been her last day on the job as she was slated to join her husband in another town where he had taken a new job.
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