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  • My wife beats me frequently, Pastor tells court

    An Ibadan- based Pastor, Samuel Adedeji on Thursday, told a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan to terminate the year-old union between him and his wife, Temiloluwa, over threat to his life.

    In his petition to the court, Adedeji who lived at Ologuneru area of Ibadan accused his wife of frequently beating him and distracting him from his ministry.

    “I think that I actually got it wrong by not making proper spiritual consultation before I went to the altar with Temiloluwa as a husband.

    “For too long, I have had to cope with all sorts of humiliation, insults, abuses in addition to emotional and psychological torture which I have often suffered from her.

    “When Temiloluwa’s troublemaking reached its peak, she started beating me and tearing off my dresses.

    “Recently, she gave me three dirty slaps in the night and was attempting to stab me to death that same night when I had to run for my dear life.

    “Temiloluwa has no regard for anybody because by her attitude, she is a devil in human skin.

    “Now, she has left my home and I need to move on too.

    “There is no more love between both of us,” Samuel said.

    However, the respondent was conspicuously absent in the court when she was called to respond to the allegations leveled against her.

    The court’s bailiff informed the Arbitrators, led by the President, Chief Ademola Odunade that he had served notices of court hearing on Temiloluwa and that she deliberately ignored the notices.

    After careful consideration, Odunade dissolved the union, citing threat to life as the reason.

    He ordered that the copy of the judgment be served on the respondent for her to be aware of the latest in the case.

  • Pastor remanded for ‘defiling’ twins

    An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court yesterday remanded a 54-year-old pastor, Michael Olise, in Kirikiri Prison for allegedly defiling 12-year-old twins.

    Olise, a friend to the twins’ father, is facing a two-count charge of child defilement before Magistrate Bola Osunsanmi.

    The defendant is said to be a pastor at Anointing Chosen Vessel, Governor’s Road, Ikotun, Lagos.

    Prosecuting police officer Raphael Dony said the defendant committed the offence last month at 2, Okanlawon Street, Ago Palace Way, Okota, Lagos.

    In the first count, Olise was alleged to have unlawfully defiled the first twin on November 15, thereby committing an offence contrary to Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2015.

    In the second count, he was said to have sometime in November unlawfully and sexually assaulted the second twin by fingering her, thereby commiting an offence contrary to Section 261 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2015.

    The defendant was said to have committed the act in the house they all lived in. The girls live with their  parents.

    Olise was said to have perpetrated the act when the girls’ mother travelled out of the country and their father was at work.

    Magistrate Osunsanmi did not take the defendant’s plea.  The case continues on January 23.

  • Pastor ‘defrauds’ church members of N1.5m

    A 52-year-old pastor yesterday appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly defrauding members of N1.5 million.

    Pastor Michael Udom of Pinnacle Praise Church, Lagos, was alleged to have committed the act on the pretext of coordinating a monthly contribution,

    The prosecution alleged that the accused obtained N1.5 million from Sylvia Nnamdi and Alfred Olugbenga, on the pretext of being a pastor and coordinator of the Ajor Thrift Association.

    Police Sergeant Michael Unah said the accused committed the offence with two others at large sometime in May at Fadeyi, Lagos.

    He alleged that the accused, who portrayed himself as a pastor and the coordinator of the thrift association to the complainants, convinced them to join the contribution, but converted N1.5 million to his use.

    Unah alleged that the accused refused to give the complainants money when it was their turn to collect.

    The accused pleaded not guilty.

    Chief Magistrate A. A. Fashola granted him N200,000 bail, with two sureties in the like sum.

    The sureties, he said, must be employed with evidence of three years’ tax payment to the Lagos State Government, and  their addresses verified.

    The sureties must be relations of the accused and live in the court’s jurisdiction.

    The magistrate adjourned till January 22.

     

  • Pastor ‘absconds with N1.2m car’

    A 46-year-old pastor, Joseph Lawson, yesterday appeared at an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court, Lagos charged with the theft of a car valued at N1.2 million.

    Prosecutor Clifford Ogu alleged that the accused committed the offence on October 1 at Oko-Oba, Lagos.

    He alleged that the accused ran away with a car belonging to Mr. Chikwukadibia Udeh.

    “The complainant approached the accused for prayers. The accused claimed God told him that he should bring his car and the document for prayers.

    “The complainant obeyed and after the accused collected the car and its document, he was no where to be found.

    “Efforts made by the complainant to recover his car proved unsuccessful and the case was reported to the police,” the prosecutor said.

    He said when the accused was later arrested, he claimed to have sold the vehicle.

    The offence contravenes Section 287 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

    The accused, who lives in Surulere, Lagos, entered a `not-guilty’ plea to the charge levelled against him.

    Magistrate J.A. Adegun granted bail to the accused in the sum of N200,000 with two sureties as part of the bail condition.

    He said the sureties should be employed and show evidence of two years’ tax payment to the Lagos State government.

    The case was adjourned till October 29 for hearing.

  • Pastor loses wife after giving ‘fake’ prophesy

    A housewife, Deborah Olusola, on Wednesday urged an Idi-Ogungun Customary Court, Agodi in Ibadan, that her husband, Pastor Sunday Olusola, lured her into marry through fake prophesy.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Deborah had approached the court seeking for dissolution of her 18 months union with the pastor over insincerity, infidelity, nagging, and brutality.

    In her testimony before the court, the 23-year-old woman, narrated how Olusola approached her and promised to assist her spiritually.

    “My lord, he promised to assist me but later told me that God said both of us should become one through marriage.

    “I believed the prophesy because I thought it was truly God’s voice and we got married after few weeks.

    “Again, he prophesied that my mother should resign from her place of work and relocate to our matrimonial apartment.

    “He said God would kill her if she didn’t obey the purported God’s voice and my mother yielded to the prophesy because she too believed him as a man of God.

    “He began showing his true colour immediately I got pregnant, maltreating me, became less concerned about my well-being and brutalised me.

    “I passed through hell during the pregnancy of the only child of the marriage.

    “His parents too nagged and beat me, and even extended the hatred to my mother by treating her as slave.

    “The worse he did was that I caught him sleeping with his blood sister and threatened to deal with me if I expose him.

    “I couldn’t believe my eyes until I read text message conversations between him and his sister on his cell phone which confirmed what I saw.

    “My relationship with him in the last one and half years was not friendly and his ways of life didn’t prove him to be a man of God.

    “I pray the court to separate us because I can’t cope anymore with the marriage because of his devilish ways of life,” she stated.

    In his defense, Olusola, 28, denied all the allegations and blamed the plaintiff for the break-up.

    He urged the court to uphold the divorce request of his wife and pledged to abide with the judgment of the court.

    Chief Mukaila Balogun, the President of the court, dissolved the marriage and gave the custody of the child to the plaintiff.

    Balogun further ordered the respondent to pay N3,500 monthly for the upkeep of the child.

  • Pastor ‘kills’ lover for ‘church-crowd ritual’

    •Buried her head, intestines, two hands in church

    The police in Ogun State have arrested a pastor, Olusola Akindele and his accomplice, Pastor Ayodele Bamiduro, for allegedly killing a woman, identified as Iya Aanu, for ritual.

    The late Iya Aanu, police said, was Akindele’s lover.

    The deceased’s head, two hands and intestines were cut and buried at the back of the Lion of Judah Church of Christ  at Robiyan Avenue, founded by Pastor Bamiduro.

    Parading the suspects yesterday, Commissioner of Police Ahmed Iliyasu said the offence committed bordered on conspiracy, murder and ritual.

    Iliyasu explained that on August 10, a complaint was lodged at Agbado Police Divisional headquarters by district head of Igbore Robiyan in Ifo Local Government Area.

    The commissioner said the district head reported that a headless decomposing body of a woman was found in an uncompleted building.

    He said the divisional police officer (DPO) in Agbado, Olatunji Omonijo, was ordered to unravel the perpetrators.

    “The DPO and his detectives embarked on technical intelligence based investigation which led to the apprehension of the pastor and his accomplice. On interrogation, the pastor, who also claimed to be a prophet in a church, confessed that the deceased was his lover and that they had dated for two years.

    “On that fateful day the deceased came to visit him as usual and after they made love, the woman was relaxing when he hit her head with a pestle-like wood.

    “He later cut off her head and the two hands before he threw the remains into the uncompleted building behind his residence.

    “The severed head and two hands of the victim were buried at the back of Lion of Judah Church of Christ situated at Robiyan Avenue, ” the commissioner said.

    Iliyasu described the incident as wickedness at its peak and height of man’s inhumanity to man.

    He assured the public that the perpetrators would face the full wrath of the law, saying they would be arraigned in court.

    The pastor told reporters the woman was his lover and that he didn’t know what came over him.

    He said his relationship with the woman had been on for over two years.

     

  • Pastor donates N1m for mosque’s completion in Calabar

    A Senior Pastor with the Peniel Church of God in Calabar, Apostle Essien Ayi, has donated N1 million for the completion of a central mosque and Islamic Centre in the Cross River State capital.

    Ayi, who represents Akpabuyo/Bakassi/Calabar-South Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, said Nigerians should be their brothers’ keepers, irrespective of religion.

    The clergyman and lawmaker, who made the cash donation at Gbogobiri, a Hausa settlement in Calabar, said the gesture was also to appreciate the support he has enjoyed from them.

    He said: “Every human being whether Christian or Muslim believes in God, a creator. The religion may be different. The mode of practicing may be different, but it is tilted towards one being, which is God.

    “Also the Muslim society has been very supportive of me right from when I was chairman and they informed me that their former mosque had been demolished and they are trying to erect a new and befitting mosque. I feel as a representative, they too are my constituents. I am bound to make a token donation towards the completion of that mosque. We should be be our brothers’ keepers. We are all Nigerians irrespective of our religion.”

    Ayi also made donations to two orphanages at Uwanse and Bateba Streets, as well as the Pope John Paul Home for the aged and needy on Target Street.

    “Whenever God bless you, use part of that blessing to bless others. I came from a disadvantaged home and by the grace of God he has lifted me to this height. I always have a feeling for the less privileged in the society,” he said.

    Head of the Hausa Community, Sarki Lawan, who spoke through the Secretary of the Mosque Committee, Mr Hashimu Abubakar, expressed gratitude for the donation.

    “We are very happy. We appreciate his concern about coming here to give us his donation. This is the first time it has ever happened. He donated N1 million and we assure him the money would be put to use. The name of the mosque is Central Mosque and Islamic Centre in Calabar.

    “Work started about four months ago and the money would help us a great deal. Our message to other politicians is to emulate what he has done so that the people they are representing would feel their impact,” he said.

    He called for harmonious inter-religious relations.

    “That is all we preach about. We call for a harmonious living environment because if you don’t have a peaceful atmosphere, you cannot even practice your religion. Let us come together. We should not start fighting ourselves and make the environment unconducive for us to stay. If we are in peace everyone can practice their own religion. That is what we believe. Peaceful coexistence is what we need,” he said.

  • Soldiers rescue pastor, nursing mother in Aba

    •Cook arrested as Army recovers gun, stolen items

    Soldiers attached to the 144 Battalion under 14 Brigade headquarters in Ohafia have rescued the pastor of a Pentecostal church in Aba, identified as Rev. Daniel Obisike, and an unidentified nursing mother.

    The soldiers rescued them during a raid on a kidnappers’ hideout in Osisioma Local Government Area of Abia State.

    The soldiers from Ngwa High School Forward Operation Base (FOB), Charlie Coy, battled the kidnappers during the operation which lasted over three hours.

    It was learnt that the hoodlums operated around Ekeapkara in Umuojima communities of Osisioma Local Government Area and Omuma in Rivers State.

    The soldiers also reportedly arrested a woman undergraduate of the Federal Polytechnic at Nekede in Imo State, who they said cooked for the kidnappers.

    Sources at the Army base told our reporter that the soldiers recovered a locally-made pistol, a Dane gun and seven mobile phones suspected to have been stolen.

    One of the abductors was said to have died during crossfire with the soldiers as the hoodlums opened fire on sighting the security agents.

    Other gang members were suspected to have escaped with gunshot wounds.

    A source at the brigade headquarters told our reporter that the FOB operatives swung into operation following a tip-off.

    The source said four members of the gang were on the run, adding that they would soon be apprehended as military intelligence team had been working round the clock to bring them to justice.

  • Pastor held for ‘defiling’ nine-year-old girl

    A 54-year- pastor, Udoh Okon has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly raping a nine-year-old girl (names withheld).

    Okon, the Pastor of Christ Abiding Church, Bankole Street, Famous Bus Stop, Shomolu, was arrested by the gender section of the command yesterday following a case of defilement filed by the victim’s mother, Peace Effiong.

    According to Edgal, the woman reported that she noticed her daughter was acting strangely, adding that she checked the child on April 13, while she was sleeping and saw semen coming out of her private part.

    Alarmed by the discovery, Edgal said the woman told detectives she woke her child up and questioned her, adding that the victim mentioned Okon as the man who has been raping her since last year.

    He said: “The little girl went further to reveal that it was in the pastor’s wife’s shop at the aforementioned address that she was defiled. Medical examination showed that the victim’s hymen had been ruptured long ago, an indication that the suspect has been having carnal knowledge of her for a long time. Investigation into this case is in progress.”

    The pastor denied the allegation, claiming that she only appealed to the victim’s mother not to punish her in public.

    He said: “I and few people went to the woman’s shop and saw her daughter kneeling down with blocks on her hands and she was crying. I asked what happened and her mother said somebody told her that whenever the child came to the compound, someone used to make love to her.

    “Our shops are not far from each other. I begged the woman to forgive the child and that she should not punish her publicly anymore. She did not listen to me and so, I left them and went to my own shop.

    “I am surprised they said I defiled her. The child could be my granddaughter. There was a day she came to my shop and I asked her to assist me in carrying empty crates. I sell non-alcoholic beverages. She helped me carry the crates to my other shop and kept them outside. That was all.”

     

  • Pastor held for ‘defiling’ nine-year-old girl

    A-54-year- pastor, Udoh Okon has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly raping a nine-year-old girl (names withheld).

    Okon, the Pastor of Christ Abiding Church, Bankole Street, Famous Bus Stop, Shomolu, was arrested by the gender section of the command yesterday following a case of defilement filed by the victim’s mother, Peace Effiong.

    According to Edgal, the woman reported that she noticed her daughter was acting strangely, adding that she checked the child on April 13, while she was sleeping and saw semen coming out of her private part.

    Alarmed by the discovery, Edgal said the woman told detectives she woke her child up and questioned her, adding that the victim mentioned Okon as the man who has been raping her since last year.

    He said: “The little girl went further to reveal that it was in the pastor’s wife’s shop at the aforementioned address that she was defiled. Medical examination showed that the victim’s hymen had been ruptured long ago, an indication that the suspect has been having carnal knowledge of her for a long time. Investigation into this case is in progress.”

    The pastor denied the allegation, claiming that she only appealed to the victim’s mother not to punish her in public.

    He said: “I and few people went to the woman’s shop and saw her daughter kneeling down with blocks on her hands and she was crying. I asked what happened and her mother said somebody told her that whenever the child came to the compound, someone used to make love to her.

    “Our shops are not far from each other. I begged the woman to forgive the child and that she should not punish her publicly anymore. She did not listen to me and so, I left them and went to my own shop.

    “I am surprised they said I defiled her. The child could be my granddaughter. There was a day she came to my shop and I asked her to assist me in carrying empty crates. I sell non-alcoholic beverages. She helped me carry the crates to my other shop and kept them outside. That was all.”