Teen Abducted And Forced Into Early Marriage Graduates In Flying Colors From University

Do you remember Ese Oruru? 

The story was so virla then, she was kidnapped at 13 from her mother’s food shop in Yenagoa, Bayelsa and taken to Kano, where she was forcefully converted to Islam and married off to the keke driver who abducted her ...

Do you remember?

She is in the news again and it is because she has graduated from the University of Ilorin with Second Class Upper Division in Education technology.

‎On Wednesday,October 22, 2025 Ms Oruru was among the nearly 12,000 graduands at the University of Ilorin’s 40th convocation and among the few to have Upper Class honours.

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‎Ms Oruru had a sordid encounter back in 2015 after Yunusa Dahiru, a Muslim tricycle driver, orchestrated her abduction from her parents’ custody to the northern Kano, where he secretly married her under Islamic law without the consent of her parents.
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‎The case sparked nationwide outrage after Rose Oruru, the victim’s mother, said she was repeatedly denied access to her daughter 

‎Following a sluggish trial that lasted five years, Mr Dahiru, alias Yellow, was sentenced in 2020 to 26 years’ imprisonment for unlawful c*rnal knowledge of a m!nor, tr*fficking, illicit interc*urse, and sxxual exploitation of a m!nor.

 Yellow was 18 years old when he r*ped the m!nor.
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‎But by the time the police intervened and rescued Ms Oruru from her abductor, she was already pr*gnant and had already lost a year of her secondary school education.
‎Ms Oruru spent nine months in captivity in Kano. The teenager returned to finish her secondary education after giving birth.