LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The decomposed remains of a 45-year-old pastor, Esere Okilo, have been discovered in his home in Ekeki, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, more than a year after he was reported missing. Okilo, a native of Nembe-Bassambiri, had not been seen for 15 months before his sister stumbled upon his skeletal remains on Wednesday, January…
LAGOS OCTOBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (retd.), has slammed N1bn suit against renowned cleric, Pastor Paul Rika, of the Holiness Revival Ministry Worldwide for allegedly defaming him in a book he authored. Danjuma, through his counsel, Tayo Oyetibo (SAN), gave the preacher seven days to withdraw the defamatory statements…
LAGOS AUGUST 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice T. N . Nzeukwu of the Imo State High Court has convicted and sentenced a pastor, Desmond Eke, to eight years imprisonment for raping his church member’s wife. Eke, the founder of Deliverance Ministry of the Good Shepherd, Umuehieta Avu, Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State was found guilty…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A woman in her 50s, Madam Alimot (surname withheld), has revealed how she and others had been conniving with a pastor in one of the South West states to stage spiritual problems which, after being sprinkled with water and anointed with oil, would vanish immediately, making the congregation to believe that a…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Controversial pastor, Chukwuemeka Cyril Ohanaemere, aka Odumeje, has issued a stern warning to his critics. Odumeje, who is the General Overseer of the Mountain of Holy Ghost Intervention Deliverance Ministry, vowed to summon his critics to the ‘citadel’, where they would see that true power exists. Addressing his members, Odumeje decried Nigerians…
LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A cleric, Pastor Olusegun Ojo, had a nasty experience after he organized a crusade and was preaching within the neighborhood as he was brutally attacked and stoned for disturbing the peace of the residents at this critical time of economic hardship. P.M.EXPRESS reports that the incident happened at Atanda Street, Shogunle area…
LAGOS OCTOBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Dunamis church located at Mission Ward North Bank in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, has collapsed, killing at least one pastor. The incident occurred on Tuesday morning when the resident pastor and three other members were observing prayers. The three other pastors were said to have escaped unhurt while the pastor…
LAGOS JULY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Police Special Fraud Unit, PSFU, Ikoyi, Lagos, South West, Nigeria have arrested Professor Yusufu Ameh Obaje, 74, a former chaplain, Sanni Abimbola Olive, 39, a Pastor with the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) and charged them before the Tinubu Magistrate’s Court, Lagos Island for allegedly obtaining the sum…