17 March 2014 :

An Ado-Ekiti High Court in Ado-Ekiti sentenced three accused persons to death by hanging for robbery, murder and rape.
The judge, Justice Olusegun Ogunyemi, gave the verdict at the conclusion of trial.
The convicts are Kolade Fowosere, a medical student; Blessing Owhorisi, also a student and Ojo Ogundare, a vulcanizer operating in Ado-Ekiti.
The prosecuting State Counsel, Mr Gbenga Daramola, said the accused committed the offence on July 4, 2011 at Omisanjana quarters in Ado-Ekiti.
Daramola said the accused were said to have robbed at Ido-Ekiti, Omisanjana and Moferere in Ado-Ekiti.
He told the court that they also killed a police officer, Olusegun Olufowobi, popularly called “of London”, during their operation at Moferere on July 20, 2011.
He said that the accused also raped a lady in the course of their operation.