No fewer than 13 people, including seven wedding guests, a pastor and his wife were abducted in two kidnapping incidents that occurred between Kwara-Ekiti axis on Saturday evening. Police sources said that seven guests who were returning to Ilorin from a wedding in Ekiti State in a Sienna bus were accosted by kidnappers at a…
LAGOS JULY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 45-year-old pastor, Ndifreke Udo Amos, has been arrested by operatives of the FIB Intelligence Response Team (FIB-IRT) for allegedly helping a kidnap gang in the abduction of an 80-year-old man, Pa Anthony Ugbuzor Idornigie. The octogenarian victim was said to be sitting in his house at No 7, Garage Street, Itoki,…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Niger State police command has arrested a Pastor, Sabastine Dabu, and three others for being in possession of fake naira notes worth N15.8 million in Kontagora, the headquarters of the government area of the state. The other two suspects are Emmanuel Akazuwa 42, of Adi village in Buruku LGA of Benue…
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Command in Cross River has arrested the Pastor of United Evangelical Church, Michael Bassey, 45, for unlawful possession of a human skull. It also apprehended 25 other suspects for various offences committed in the state. Briefing newsmen on Tuesday in Calabar, Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Sikiru Akande,…
LAGOS JULY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A 56-year-old pastor, Ebenezer Oduntan accused of pilfering over €70,000 from church funds over an eight year period has turned himself in to the police. According to insiders, Pastor Oduntan voluntarily went to report himself to the Charity Commission which oversees churches; and to the Irish Police possibly compelled by the Holy…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Apparently in a bid to fraudulently obtain money, favour and other valuables from members of the public and his siblings, a Pastor has allegedly feigned his own kidnap. Sources told Saturday INDEPENDENT that the man of God, Pastor Richard Onyekachukwu’s aim of feigning self-kidnap was to obtain money from members of his…
LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The General Overseer of Resurrection Praise Ministry, Archbishop Samson Benjamin protested against the Buhari administration on Sunday in Lagos. Benjamin, popularly known as Jehovah Sharp Sharp, carried a coffin as he marched through the streets of Festac. The Bishop claimed God asked him to do so because He wasn’t happy with…
LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine landed in Nigeria on Tuesday, March 2 and the Federal Government has intimated that President Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo will take their shots on Saturday to assure citizens about the safety of the vaccine. However, some Christians whose pastors have affiliated the vaccine to the Antichrist in…