Jon Holato

In something that won’t be reported on mainstream US media, Muslim pupils at a secondary school in northeastern Nigeria beat a teacher to death today because they said she was desecrating the Koran. The teacher, Oluwatoyin Olusase, a Christian, was giving an Islamic Religious Knowledge exam at the school when the incident took place.

Initial reports have no mention of anything Olusase may have done, but Nigerian police have confirmed the fatality and said their arrival on the scene had prevented the incident from spreading further.

“We have received information that a female teacher has been lynched by her students. We are investigating the report,” Gombe state police commissioner Joseph Ibi said.

While there have always been ethnic and religious conflicts in Nigeria, there has been a surge in radical violence in recent years. It is worth mentioning that Sharia law was introduced in this area of Nigeria in 1999.