LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A viral video circulating on social media has sparked widespread reactions after showing a Nigerian pastor instructing members of his congregation to transfer all the money in their bank accounts to him, while promising they would experience a miracle within seven days. In the video, the pastor is seen preaching before…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have killed Reverend Yahaya Kambasya, a pastor with the United Church of Christ in Nigeria (UCCN), popularly known as HEKAN, and abducted at least 20 people during an attack on Farin Dutse community in Kauru Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The assailants reportedly stormed the area in the early hours…
In a surprise turn of event, parents of children allegedly brutalized by pastor during deliverance programme in a compound in Eneka community in the Ohio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state were reported to have protested against police arrest of the cleric. Recall that men of the Rivers State Police Command arrested the pastor…
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…
