Tag: Israel Ogundipe
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Celestial Church cleric gets bail in N11m fraud case
The Court of Appeal in Lagos on Thursday upheld the application for post-conviction bail by the founder of Genesis Parish of Celestial Church of Christ, Evangelist Israel Ogundipe. A three-man panel of the court granted Ogundipe bail on health grounds. The justices held that the bail subsists pending the determination of Ogundipe’s appeal challenging his…
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Court rejects bail application of popular Lagos pastor jailed for fraud
Embattled pastor and shepherd-in-charge of Celestial Church of Christ, Global Genesis Parish, Lagos, Israel Ogundipe, has lost the post-conviction bail application he filed after he was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for fraud. A Lagos State High Court had convicted Ogundipe for defrauding Olaide Williams-Oni, a UK-based woman, of N17 million. Before the conviction, the…
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Popular Lagos pastor, Ogundipe sentenced to jail for unlawful conversion, stealing N14m, £12,000
A popular televangelist and the head Genesis Parish of the Celestial Church of Christ, Alagbado, Lagos, Isreal Ogundipe, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment by an Ikeja High Court for unlawfully converting a woman’s property and stealing. Ogundipe, who has been on trial since 2011, was charged with seven-counts of obtaining by stealing, inducing…