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  • CAC pastor arrested for raping, procuring abortion pills for own daughter

    CAC pastor arrested for raping, procuring abortion pills for own daughter

    The police in Ogun State have arrested a 44-year-old cleric, Oluwafemi Oyebola, for allegedly raping his own daughter.

    Mr Oyebola allegedly impregnated the victim and procured illegal abortion for her thrice.

    The police spokesperson in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who made this known on Tuesday, said Mr Oyebola was arrested after the daughter reported her ordeal at Owode-Egbado divisional police headquarters.

    He said the victim told police that the cleric of CAC Ogo Oluwa parish has been raping her since 2015 when she was 19 and shortly after the death of her mother.

    “She further reported that she got pregnant for her father three times for which her father took her to a nurse where those pregnancies were aborted. After the third abortion, the suspect did family planning for her so as not to get pregnant any longer.”

    The police quoted the victim saying she ran away from home and reported to an NGO,‘Advocacy For Children And Vulnerable Persons Network, which took her to Owode-Egbado police station to complain.

    “Upon the report, the DPO Owode-Egbado division, SP Olabisi Elebute led her detectives to the pastor’s house where he was promptly arrested. On interrogation, the suspect made confessional statement that all what his daughter said is nothing but the whole truth.”

    The police commissioner in the state, Kenneth Ebrimson, has ordered further investigation and prosecution of the suspect.

  • Pastor arrested for allegedly raping 16-year-old girl inside church

    35-year-old pastor in Akwa Ibom State has been arrested by the police for allegedly raping a16-year-old girl inside his church.

    The police said Nnamso Friday Jacob, otherwise known as ‘Major Prophet Honesty Jesus,’ drugged the girl before he raped her.

    The incident reportedly occurred on June 23 at Mr Jacob’s church, the Living Power of Zion Church, Ndue Eduo, Okon Eket, Eket Local Government Area of the state, the police spokesperson in the state, N-nudam Fredrick, said in a statement on Thursday.

    The police said the girl went for “counselling and deliverance” which was fixed by the suspect who is the general overseer of the church.

    “While she was in the prophet’s counselling room, the suspect administered an intoxicating liquid substance to the victim and thereafter took advantage of the victim and had unlawful carnal knowledge of her,” Mr Fredrick, a chief superintendent of police, said.

    Mr Jacob is the second pastor to be arrested for rape in Akwa Ibom in less than a month.

    The police on Wednesday said a pastor was arrested in the state for keeping eight teenage girls in a so-called deliverance centre and allegedly raping one of them said to be 15 years old.

    The police said the girls are between the ages of 13 and 16.

    The pastor, identified as Inimfon Eyo Inyang, 33, was said to have also made an attempt to rape a 21-year-old girl. He was among the 12 people arrested for rape in the state.

    The Commissioner of Police in Akwa Ibom, Imohimi Edgal, has wowed to prosecute “sexual predators” arrested in the state.

    Two computer instructors who gang-raped a 17-year-old girl in 2018 in Uyo were recently convicted and sentenced to 14 years in prison.

    The convicted men were said to have cooked rice with substance suspected to be Indian hemp for the girl who was being tutored by them on how to use a computer. She felt weak and drowsy after eating the rice before the men raped her.

    There has been an increase in rape and other sex offences in Nigeria lately. Nigerian authorities have been under pressure to take firmer actions on the issue.

  • Pastor arrested for raping girls aged 11, eight

    The Akwa Ibom State Police Command says it has arrested a community leader, a pastor, and three others for alleged defilement and rape in the state.

    The command Spokesman, CSP Nnudam Fredrick, said this in a statement in Uyo on Tuesday.

    Fredrick said the community leader in Ikot Inyang in Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government Area of the state was arrested for allegedly defiling an 11-year-old girl.

    Fredrick said the community leader, 60, bought bean cake (Akara) from the 11-year-old and asked her to follow him to his room in order to take her money.

    “On reaching the room, the suspect grabbed the victim and forcefully raped her,” he stated.

    He said the command, following intelligence report, also arrested one pastor in one of the churches in Ntak Inyang in Etim Ekpo LGA for allegedly defiling an eight-year-old girl.

    Fredrick said the girl was sent by her guardian to deliver a tin of milk to the pastor when the pastor allegedly committed the illicit act.

    Within the same period, he said the command also arrested three other persons (names withheld) for alleged defilement and rape.

    He added: “The other three suspects conspired and lured a 26-year-old lady to their house and unlawfully assaulted her with fist blows and machete and in the process raped the victim.”

    Fredrick said all the suspects would be arraigned in court on completion of investigations.

    He reassured the people of the state that the command would tackle the issue of rape, gender-based violence and other crimes by ensuring the perpetrators do not escape justice.

  • Covid-19: Pastor transforms church into bar in protest against lockdown

    Covid-19: Pastor transforms church into bar in protest against lockdown

    An evangelical pastor is defying Argentina’s ban on church services for over 10 people by turning his church into a bar.

    Bar tables were set up inside the Comunidad Redentor evangelical church in the city of San Lorenzo, and pastors, who were dressed as waiters, would carry bibles on their trays in a mock service to get around Argentina’s coronavirus lockdown, which prohibits more than 10 people in the house of worship, according to the Guardian,

    “We are standing here today dressed like this, carrying a tray, because it seems this is the only way we can serve the word of God,” the pastor, Daniel Cattaneo, dressed as a waiter, said as he opened the “worship bar.”

    Argentina, which has recorded 28,764 cases and 785 deaths — mostly located in Buenos Aires — is in a staged reopening. The province of Santa Fe has a very low number of cases and has reopened bars but churches are still subjugated to rules of 10 people or less.

    “We want to exercise our constitutional right to practice our faith,” Cattaneo told the Guardian. “Bars can open, shops can open, why are they discriminating against us?”

    Cattaneo also announced a “drive-in” worship to circumvent the ban.

    Source: NY Post

  • COVID-19 kills pastor secretly receiving treatment in Delta private clinic

    COVID-19 kills pastor secretly receiving treatment in Delta private clinic

    A pastor who was allegedly smuggled into a private hospital in Sapele, Delta State on Saturday, after he developed Coronavirus complications has reportedly died Monday night.

    Meanwhile, the hospital was closed by the Delta State Ministry of Health monitoring team.

    The pastor, Wilson Okotie, Senior Pastor, High Impact Christian Centre, located along Akintola Road, Opposite Ita Lane, Sapele, Delta State, was said to have fallen sick on Thursday night and was taken to a clinic in Warri, from where he was again referred back to the clinic in Sapele.

    The late pastor was said to have died at about 6:40 pm while awaiting evacuation from Treasurehold Specialist Hospital along Ugbeyiyi road in Sapele, where he was admitted and been secretly managed against COVID-19 protocol.

    Dr Richard Ikwuogu, who was leading the Delta State Ministry of Health Epidemiology inspection/monitoring of health facilities, and incident manager of Covid-19 response team, on Monday, on a tip-off had stormed the hospital premises, where the deceased was admitted and sealed it, after finding out that two patients were being treated for Coronavirus.

    It was learnt that the ambulance that came to evacuate the remains of the suspected COVID-19 patient was attacked by some persons suspected to be the late man’s family members.

    According to a source who spoke to newsmen on anonymity grounds, “They attacked the ambulance that came to remove the corpse, threatening to burn it, maybe they were angry that the health status of their brother was revealed.

    “The driver escaped with the ambulance and as I speak to you the chairman is making arrangements with the security agencies to send the team back,” he said.

  • Ondo pastor sentenced to death by hanging for murder

    Ondo pastor sentenced to death by hanging for murder

    An Ondo State based Pastor, Kolawole Samson, has been sentenced to death by hanging for killing one Ayo Olaniyi at a village near Okeigbo area of the state.

    The late Olaniyi was said to have in March 2016, gone to hunt frogs alongside three others at a fish pond owned by Pastor Kolawole.

    Pastor Kolawole was sentenced to death by an Ondo state High Court sitting in Akure presided over by Justice Ademola Bola.

    Kolawole was found guilty of inflicting injury on the deceased’s head with a cutlass.

    The deceased later died to at a hospital he was admitted.

    Prosecuting Counsel, Mr Olusegun Akeredolu and Mrs Omotola Ologun, argued that the offences contrary to Section 316 and punishable under Section 319 of the Criminal Code, Cap 37, Laws of Ondo State (2006).

    Mother of the deceased was one of the witnesses called to testify during trial

    Pastor Kolawole however pleaded not guilty to the charges.

    Justice Bola however uled that all evidence before the court showed that Pastor Kolawole was guilty of killing Olaniyi.

    The judge held that Samson Kolawole should die by hanging.

  • Pastor seeking powers to expand church killed by his native doctor

    Pastor seeking powers to expand church killed by his native doctor

    A Pastor, Kalejaiye Ezekiel, who went to seek traditional power, has been killed by the same native doctor from whom he sought help.

    According to available information, the pastor said he needed the power to draw worshippers to his church.

    The Ogun State Command has since last month arrested the native doctor, Isiaka Ogunkoya, for the murder of the pastor.

    The 48-year-old native doctor has also confessed to killing Ezekiel.

    Ogunkoya told policemen mid last month: “The Pastor came to me for power so that his church would grow.

    “I used the opportunity to use him for my personal job.

    “I mixed some sleeping solution for the pastor to drink and he slept off moments afterward.

    “As he dozed off, I picked a knife and slaughtered him.

    “I am a native doctor and I have helped so many people, including pastors who want their congregation to grow, in the area.

    “This particular incident happened because I personally needed human parts for a particular concoction that I wanted to prepare for one of my clients in Isoyin.

    “When the Pastor came, saying that he wanted power so that his congregation could grow, I used the opportunity to kill him and used the needed parts for the concoction.

    “I gave him some solution to drink and he fell deeply asleep and that afforded me the time to slaughter him and cut out the parts I needed for my concoction.

    “I know I have done wrong, but I want forgiveness because if you go around and ask about me, people will tell you that I am a good person.

    “This one just happened the way it did.”

    The spokesperson of the Ogun State Police Command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the native doctor was arrested by policemen on routine stop and search duty along Isoyin Road.

    Oyeyemi, a Deputy superintendent of Police, said Ogunkoya would be profiled to know how many people he may have killed in the same manner.

    He said the native doctor would be charged for murder at the end of investigation.

  • Police capture 10 in Ebonyi over Pastor’s torture

    The Police in Ebonyi State have arrested 10 persons in connection with the torture of a cleric, Oko Chukwu Obeni.

    The Pastor was tried and punished by the Traditional Council of his Amasiri community known as the Essa and Isi Oru.

    In a viral video, Obeni’s hands were tied to his back as he was whipped and beaten.

    Following outrage over the incident, the Police on Wednesday announced the arrest of the prime suspect Julius Amadi Nyerere and nine others for the alleged assault.

    Police Spokesman Loveth Odah confirmed the incident.

    She said Obeni suffered “multiple injuries all over his body” and that filthy water was poured on him.

    “Subsequently, the leader of the Isi Oru Age Grade Mr. Julius Amadi Nyerere and nine others were arrested in connection of the case,” she said.

     

  • Ebonyi State Police Command arrests 10 persons over torture of Pastor

    Ebonyi State Police Command arrests 10 persons over torture of Pastor

    The Police in Ebonyi state says it has arrested 10 persons in connection with the allegged toture of a cleric, Oko Chukwu Obeni.

    The Pastor was alleggedly tried and punished by the Traditional Council of his Amasiri community known as the Essa and Isi Oru.

    In a video which has since gone viral, his hands were tied to his back and he was flogged and beaten.

    Following outcries and condemnations that greeted the incident, the Police on Wednesday announced the arrest of Julius Amadi Nyerere and 9 others for the allegged assault.

    Police Spokesman in the state, Loveth Odah stated this in a statement.

    “On 14th of May at about 5:pm one Pastor Oko Chukwu Obeni ‘m’ age 30yrs of Ndukwe Amasiri village in Afikpo North LGA of Ebonyi State reported at Afikpo North Division that Isi Oru Age Grade led by one Julius Amadi Nyerere and deputized by one Eze Ogbonna ‘m’ all of the same address dragged him to the Ogo Play ground in the area, tired his both hands to back and flogged him severally with canes which infected mutiple injuries all over his body and poured him with filthy water’, the Spokesman said.

    Mrs Odah said that following the report, the victim was immediately taken to the hospital for proper medical care and he is responding to treatment.

    “Subsequently, the leader of the Isi Oru Age Grade Mr. Julius Amadi Nyerere and nine others were arrested in connection of the case”, she said.

    According to Odah preliminary Investigation revealed that the assualt was as result of a post made by the victim in one of the popular Social media platforms, Facebook, condemning a particular action of Afikpo North LGA Council Chairman Hon. Ogbonnia Oko Enyim and commending the Traditional Ruler of the area and his cabinet over the decision taken against the Council boss for such action’.

    She added that the LGA Council Chairman’ s loyalist were allegedly angered by this post in the said platform causing them to take the laws into their hands thereby commiting the heinous crime.

    “Meanwhile, the Acting Commissioner of Police Ebonyi State, DCP Yekini A. Ayoku urges the general public to remain calm as he has ordered the full scale investigation into the matter with a view to unraveling the circumstances that led to such inhuman treatment”, Odah added.

  • Tragic! Bandits kill pastor, blind man in Niger

    Tragic! Bandits kill pastor, blind man in Niger

    A pastor and a blind man were among five people confirmed killed by bandits who attacked four communities in Shiroro council of Niger State.

    The communities are Nankuna, Nansa, Eburo and Lagodo in Erena District in Shiroro council.

    The attack was heralded by an unknown helicopter hovering over the area until the bandits completed their operations.

     

    A source in one of the communities said that the bandits invaded the communities simultaneously on motorcycles, saying that their numbers could not be ascertained.

    “We even thought that the helicopter came to attack the bandits for us but it was only just moving round the communities until the bandits finished and left,” the source said.

    At a small settlement in Nansa, the bandits were said to have burnt down entire farm produce in the storages in anger when they did not meet the people at home.

    The villagers had already taken to their heels when they heard about the bandits attacking neighbouring villages but two people were killed in the village.

    One was the blind man and the second was the pastor who was shot at a close range in front of his church.

    “They killed the Pastor in front of the church in the morning before people could start coming to church. He was alone when they shot him in the head.”