Nigeria, April 16 -- Two years after the commencement of a coroner inquest into the death of a 12-year-old student of Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos, Sylvester Junior Oromoni, the magistrate has attributed his death to natural occurrence.

He also blamed the death on the parents' and doctor's negligence.

Mikhail Kadri, a magistrate, sitting in Ogba, while reading his report, which lasted for several hours on Monday, said that Mr Oromoni died as a result of failed treatment for his enlarged liver.

The inquest magistrate, who was emotional while reading his findings, noted that Mr Oromoni's death was caused by Septicaemia, a life-threatening health condition, caused by a patient's body's response to an infection, following infections of the ...