A Lagos State High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square has sentenced Andrew Nice Ominikoron, a driver of the Lagos Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), to death by hanging for killing Bamise Ayanwola, a 22-year-old fashion designer.
Sherifat Sonaike, the trial judge, gave the verdict on Friday.
Ominikoron and others now at large were accused of conspiring, raping and killing Bamise.
In February 2022, Bamise entered a BRT bus but never got to her destination.
Security operatives later found her naked body by the road side.
The driver of the BRT she boarded was eventually arrested and charged to court for murder.
The driver, Ominikoron, has been convicted and sentenced to death despite pleading not guilty.