LAGOS NOVEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday arraigned one Pastor Afolabi Samuel, at the Ikeja Special Offences Court, Lagos for allegedly stealing $90,000 and N4.5m property of the Registered Trustees of the Living Faith Church, Canaan land, Ota, Ogun State. Samuel, who was a church accountant, was brought before Justice…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A cleric identified as Pastor Aimola John has slumped and died shortly after joining Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress. Aimola was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital he was rushed to. He had left the APC in 2015 alongside Pastor Ize-Iyamu and was among former…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Fortune, aged 20, has narrated to policemen how her father started having sex with her when she was 13 years old, and that he would demand sex before paying her school fees. Her father, the Presiding Pastor of Mount Zion Light House Full Gospel Church, Obio Imo Lane, Uyo, Apostle Williams Okon…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 46 year-old pastor, Evangelist Chidi Eke has died while fasting for 40 days and nights in Eziala Nguru in Ngor Okpala council area of Imo State. It was gathered that the deceased, who had abandoned his wife and two children in Lagos and came back to the village, was last year…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 58-year-old man, Moses Oyeleke, and a schoolgirl, Ndagiliya Ibrahim Umar, have been released from Boko Haram captivity and reunited with their families. The release was facilitated by two local non-governmental organisations (NGOs), Kalthum Foundation For Peace and Initiative for Peace Building Movement, after weeks of negotiation and dialogue with the duo’s…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The founder of the Anointed Palace Chapel International, popularly known as Rev Obofour, has been invited by the Accra Regional Police Command, to assist with investigations after he allegedly made a church member smoke a suspected narcotic substance openly. The controversial Man of God took social media into frenzy after forcing a…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police in Rivers State have confirmed the death of a Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, yet unidentified pastor who was stabbed during a vigil at one the church’s parishes in Port Harcourt. Vanguard learned that the Redeemed Parish on Danjuma Street, Off Odili Road, in the Rivers State capital was having…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 33-year-old pastor’s wife, Blessing Okechukwu, has appeared before an Ajegunle Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly burying a live pig in her husband’s church compound, on Tuesday. The Prosecution Counsel, Insp. S.I. Bassey told the court that the defendant committed the offence around 1.40 a.m. on September 3, at the National…