The convicts are Alexander Solomon (29), Desmond Peter (29), Eric Tile (30).
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Justice Bamidele Omotoso ordered her remand at the criminal lunatic Correctional Centre, Afao Road, Ado Ekiti.
The court also sentenced the defendant to life imprisonment for raping a 20-year-old neighbour and student of Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti while armed with two guns.
She was said to have deceived the church into paying her on the pretext that she owned a dilapidated structure in Ado-Ekiti.
The convict was arraigned on one count of rape.
In a ruling, Justice Adekunle Adeleye held that the teenager (name withheld) should be detained at the Juvenile Centre.
The police said Olasoji, Benson and Ogbesetuyi Tunde, 30, on March 10, 2016 conspired and robbed Oluwadare Adebayo at a Filling Station in Odo-Ado, Ado Ekiti and stole N1.2 million.
The sentence was handed down on Tuesday in Ado Ekiti by the court, which tried and found the herdsman guilty.
Justice Lekan Ogunmoye, who delivered the judgment on Thursday, said the convict should die by hanging, but discharged and acquitted Ismaila Okoro, 20, and Awolusi Bidemi, 23, the co-defendants in the trial.
In his judgment, Justice Adekunle Adeleye, said the accused were involved actively in the robbery and were linked with the stolen vehicle recovered.
The police had charged the convict with belonging to a prohibited society “Eiye confraternity’’, contrary to Section 4 of the Secret Cult (Abolition and Prohibition) First Amendment Law No. 6, Laws of Ekiti State of Nigeria, 2017.
Delivering judgment, Justice Abiodun Adesodun, said “the circumstances of this case do not allow for recommendation of clemency to the governor on behalf of the convict.
Justice Adekunle Adeleye delivered the judgment in the murder case in Ado-Ekiti on Thursday.
An Ekiti High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti on Monday sentenced four accused persons: Rashidat Abdul (f) 37, Oluwatosin Akarakiri (m) 32, Abdulrasheed Mutairu (m) 22 and Iyoriochile Eromoina (f) 18, to death by hanging.
The prosecutor, Oluwakemi Daniel, told the court that the offences were committed on or about February 7, 2017 at Ilupeju Ekiti
An Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State High Court on Monday sentenced A 53-year-old priest, Gabriel Asateru, to five years in prison for defiling a minor.
Justice Dele Omotoso of an Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti on Tuesday found Babatunde guilty of the charge of the two count charge of armed robbery preferred against him.
A Political pressure group in Ekiti State, the Save Ekiti Coalition (SEC) has described comment by the State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, that his government had done nothing but to respect the independence of our judiciary as the height of hypocrisy saying; “Fayemi lacks moral rights to condemn any perceived assault on the judiciary because he is the number one hater of rule of law in Ekiti.”