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  • Pastor accused of stealing genitals, beaten to pulp in Benue

    Pastor accused of stealing genitals, beaten to pulp in Benue

    Dr Aime, a pastor at the Living Faith Church and a lecturer at the Torkula Polytechnic, Markurdi, the Benue State capital was on Wednesday morning beaten to pulp by irate mob following allegation of genital theft.

    He was reportedly preaching during a gospel outreach, on Wednesday, around the Wurukum area of Makurdi but trouble started when he laid hands on a young man to pray for him.

    The young man being prayed for raised an alarm that his genital had disappeared.

     

    Sources told Journalists  that Okada riders gathered around the pastor and nearly lynched him before the arrival of military and policemen at the scene who rescued him.

    Pastor Aime and the victim of the alleged genital theft were then taken to the E Divisional Police in Makurdi where the police confirmed that the alarm was false and the supposed disappeared genital was intact.

    The DPO of E Divisional Police in Makurdi said he was going to prosecute anyone who raised false alarms over genital theft in the state.

    It was gathered that relatives of the young man who raised the false alarm are now pleading with the police not to prosecute him.

     

    Benue State Police Command Spokesperson, SP, Catherine Anene could not be reached at the time of this report

  •  How  tenant defiled, impregnated my 16-year-old daughter- Pastor tells court

     How  tenant defiled, impregnated my 16-year-old daughter- Pastor tells court

    A 61-year-old pastor told an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Wednesday that his tenant, Godwin Emmanuel defiled and impregnated his 16-year-old daughter.

    Lagos State government had arraigned Emmanuel before the court on a lone-count charge of defilement to which he pleaded not guilty.

    The prosecution told the court that Emmanuel allegedly defiled the pastor’s daughter between April and July 2021 at Ajangbadi area of Badagry.

    Prosecution counsel said the offence contravened the Criminal Laws of Lagos State.

    Following his not guilty plea, state counsel, Ms Abimbola Abolade invited the pastor to testify before the court.

    The witness told the court that Emmanuel was his tenant, whom he knew through an estate agent.

    He said he had known Emmanuel for three to four years and that his daughter identified the defendant as the person responsible for her pregnancy since he had been sleeping with her.

    “Godwin defiled my daughter and impregnated her at the age of 16 years.

    “I reported the case at Area K Police Station in Badagry where my daughter confirmed that he had been sleeping with her for a long time.

    “My daughter kept the pregnancy and gave birth to a female child,’’ he said.

    Under cross-examination by defence counsel, Mr Victor Edet, the pastor told the court that he could not recollect the precise date that he reported the case to the police.

    He said, however, that he later reported the case at the Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency and at a medical centre when the police did nothing about his complaint.

    He said he was convinced that it was the defendant that impregnated his daughter after Emmanuel’s wife, a nurse, gave drugs to his daughter to abort the pregnancy.

    The pastor also told the court that his daughter told him that during one of the sex romps, the condom in use broke.

    Emmanuel, however, told her to shift responsibility to a third person whom he introduced to her, the pastor added.

    Presiding Justice Abiola Soladoye adjourned further hearing in the case to Dec.11.

  • Pastor Oyedepo resigns from Living Faith Church

    Pastor Oyedepo resigns from Living Faith Church

    Isaac, who was recently appointed as the Global Youth Pastor of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, resigned to start up his own ministry.

    He said, “My God-given mandate is to reclaim a generation and to ensure that this generation sees the fire of God-revival in our generation.”

    He and his elder brother, David Jr., were ordained as pastors in May 2007 by Kenneth Copeland.

    He is a graduate of Oral Roberts University and has served as the resident pastor of the Living Faith Church International, Maryland, USA, since October 2018.

    Isaac is married to Ayomitide Oyedepo and their union is blessed with four children.

  • Cleric commits suicide after sex tape leaks in Church WhatsApp group

    Cleric commits suicide after sex tape leaks in Church WhatsApp group

    A Christian cleric of the United Methodist Church identified as Oscar Mukahanana reportedly committed suicide following the leakage of his adultery scandal on the church’s WhatsApp group.

    The cleric who was a Reverend at the Harare East District Superintendent in Zimbabwe, engaged in an extra-marital affair with a female youth in the church.

    There were reports that the audio of his secret sexual engagement with the said lady leaked on the WhatsApp group of the church.

    He talked about how his wild excitement after meeting the lady adding that he had a good session before her menstrual cycle.

    After the audio leaked on the WhatsApp group, Mukahanana’s church members started sharing the leaked conversation making him an object of mockery.

    Local media said they even created memes, ridiculing the District Superintendent over the adultery scandal.

    Mukahanana who felt humiliated and embarrassed over the matter then committed suicide on Friday when he could not withstand the shame.

    The UMC Harare District, while reacting to the incident said in a statement, “It is with heavy heart to announce to you the untimely death of our Beloveth District Superintendent Rev Oscar Mukahanana of the Harare East District.

    “The Office of the Bishop shall be informing the church of developments and funeral arrangements. As a Church, you are being cordially requested to support the Mukahanana family through your prayers.”

  • How Chef Dammy fell out with her church Pastor

    How Chef Dammy fell out with her church Pastor

    A new explanation has arisen for why Chef Dammy disagreed with her pastor and the Spirit Word Mission.

    Chef Dammy was the poster girl for the Spirit Word Mission’s 120-hour cookathon.

    Chef Dammy’s freedom was taken away after the cookathon, according to an article published by the Foundation for Investigative Journalism, FIJ.

    Her phone and social media passwords were maintained by the church, which she despised.

    A source from the church told FIJ: “She was restricted, as her phone and ATM card were with the organisers of the cook-a-thon.A lot of people couldn’t reach her by phone calls and she couldn’t reply her social media messages also. She personally told me that she wasn’t enjoying herself anymore and that she wanted to go back to her previous life, where she had her freedom.”

    How Chef Dammy’s problem started

    After the 120-hour cooking marathon, Chef Dammy’s church started preparing for a new cookathon, in which she would also be the poster chef.

    This did not go down well with her as, according to FIJ’s source, she was yet to recover from the earlier cookathon.

    “Dammy didn’t want to do another cook-a-thon as she was even yet to recover from the one she had just finished. Her family also immediately rejected that proposal, which got the church organisers angry.

    Dammy’s family was unhappy to hear about the new cookathon and reported the matter to the Ekiti state government.

    The church was summoned and asked to release Dammy’s phone and social media passwords to her. Things got worse when Dammy transferred N700k to her family, as, according to the source, this marked a severe turning point in the crisis between the chef and Pastor Jeremiah.

    “Some of us in the church who had listened to both sides didn’t join the church to hate Dammy as they wanted. While we were still looking for the way forward, they heard that Dammy had transferred N500,000 to her mum and N200,000 to her elder brother out of the N1.2 million in her own account. The church became angry.”

     

  • Double tragedy: Pastor, brother sentenced to death for murder

    Double tragedy: Pastor, brother sentenced to death for murder

    The Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Essien Udim local government Area has sentenced one Pastor Uduak Umoren, and his brother, Emmanuel Umoren, to death for beating one Iboro Joe to death over a piece of land.

    The deceased, a 45-year-old farmer and trader who hailed from Ikot Otu in Essien Udim LGA, was beaten to death when he visited his sister-in-law in Adiasim Ikot Ekon, also in Essien Udim LGA to condole with her on the death of her husband.

    The sister-in-law had told the court that she asked the deceased to accompany her to her late husband’s farmland to assess how much she could sell it for his burial when the wife of the second convict saw them and alerted her husband that someone was trying to bury juju on their family land.

    She told the court that arriving on the farmland, the second convict started beating the deceased, while his wife also invited her son and her brother-in-law who joined in the fray, cutting the deceased with a machete and broken bottles.

    The deceased was beaten to a state of coma and dragged to his family compound close to the farm, where he gave up to the ghost after three days.

    Delivering judgment on the matter on Wednesday, the presiding judge, Justice Winifred Effiong, found the two accused guilty of murder and sentenced them to death by hanging accordingly.

    She said the “prosecution team from the State Ministry of Justice had proven its case beyond reasonable doubt, adding that the accused did intentionally kill the deceased.”

  • [Photo] Pastor dies in Dunamis church building collapse

    [Photo] Pastor dies in Dunamis church building collapse

    A Dunamis church has collapsed on Tuesday morning in Benue, killing at least one pastor.

    The church is located at Mission Ward North Bank in Makurdi, the State capital.

    According to Channels, a source as saying that four individuals, including the pastor, were engaged in prayers within the church building prior to the occurrence of the incident.

    The three other persons were said to have escaped unhurt while the pastor was trapped and killed by the wreckage.

    Police Public Relations Officer for the Benue State Police Command, Anene Sewuese Catherine, confirmed the incident.

    “Only one person has been confirmed dead for now”, she said.

  • JUST IN: Odukoya’s son, Jimmy emerges as senior pastor of Fountain of Life Church

    JUST IN: Odukoya’s son, Jimmy emerges as senior pastor of Fountain of Life Church

    … Jimmy’s younger sister now Associate Pastor

    Jimmy Odukoya, son of the deceased General Overseer of Fountain of Life Church, Taiwo Odukoya has taken over the church as the new general overseer of the church.

    His sister, Tolu Odukoya Ijogun is the new associate Pastor.

    Their ordination service service will hold on 30th of September.

    The announcement was made during the church service on Sunday.

    Addressing the congregation, Rotimi Okpaise, a pastor, said the late Taiwo Odukoya confided in the board of trustees (BoT) members about the succession plan before his demise.

    Okpaise said the BoT unanimously elected Jimmy as the senior pastor and chairperson of the board.“The board has chosen Saturday, September 30, 2023, as the date of Jimmy’s installation,” he said.On August 7, Odukoya, founder of the church, died in the United States of America aged 67.He died less than two years after losing his wife, Nomthi, a South African, on November 9, 2021, following a two-year battle with cancer.

    Odukoya’s marriage to Nomthi lasted 11 years and produced two boys.Before Nomthi, Odukoya was married to Bimbo for 21 years.Bimbo died in the 2005 Sosoliso plane crash in Port Harcourt, the Rivers capital.

  • Sad! How pastor jumped from 2-storey, dies, after lover he trained in varsity jilted him

    Sad! How pastor jumped from 2-storey, dies, after lover he trained in varsity jilted him

    SAD! A 30-year-old man has reportedly died after jumping from a two-storey building in Nnewi, Anambra State.

    The deceased, identified as Prosper Igboke, a pastor of a Pentecostal church and native of Umunneochi, Abia state, jumped down from the building following disappointment by his female lover.

    A relative of the deceased who preferred anonymity said the lady had declined his marriage proposal after receiving training from the deceased at the university.

    The source said: “The incident happened last month. The man was 30 years old at the time of his death. His girlfriend, whom he intended to marry disappointed him after seeing her through the university.

    “He jumped down from a two-storey building and died. I am surprised that a man of this age and a pastor can do this.

    “He will be buried in a forest for committing sacrilege according to the tradition of Leru autonomous community of Umunneochi LGA in Abia state.”

  • SAD: Baptist church pastor shot dead

    SAD: Baptist church pastor shot dead

    Sad! Gunmen reportedly shot dead a pastor, Rev Jeremiah Mayau of Tawaliu Baptist Church, Kujama, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

    Confirming the killing on Thursday, Rev Joseph John Hayab, the state chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), said, “The barbaric incident happened on Wednesday afternoon while the Rev. Jeremiah Mayau was in his farm at Prison farms kujama chikun LGA of Kaduna State.

    “It is very painful that gunmen move freely in broad day light to execute their evil act and get away with it in a civilised society like ours where we have constituted authority that is expected to checkmate this criminal elements in the society. It also painful that when you raise an eye brow, you are seen as a deviant that is just looking for trouble while those in authority have otherwise refused to do the right thing to ensure harmonious coexistence among the citizens.”

    He called on security personnel to be more vigilant in the discharge of their professional duties and curtail the activities of criminal elements that are disrupting peaceful movement of citizens to earn their daily bread.

    He prayed that the Almighty will comfort the immediate family, church and the body of Christ.