The Apetu of Ipetumodu in Osun State, Oba Joseph Oloyede; and a Nigerian pastor, Edward Oluwasanmi, have pleaded guilty to charges of Covid-19 relief fraud amounting to $4.2 million in the United States. According to court records, Oluwasanmi used companies including Dayspring Transportation Limited, Dayspring Holding Incorporated, and Dayspring Property Incorporated to illegally obtain and divert funds intended for businesses …

A Mapo Grade A Customary Court sitting in Ibadan on Friday acceded to prayers of one Pastor Olamide Agbejaife to end the 30-year cohabitation between him and his estranged wife, Mary, for frequently denying him sex denial and food poisoning. Agbejaife, a resident of Olodo in Ibadan, told the court that his wife’s behaviour took a negative turn after he …

Popular prophet of the Celestial Church of Christ, Israel Ogundipe, has revealed how a bank offered him N1 billion loan. Ogundipe, who is the founder of Genesis Global Ministry, Lagos, said he was offered the loan to help him expand his ministry to reach more members globally. He revealed this while speaking on a show of popular Nigerian On-Air Personality, …

Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a pastor, Clinton John of the Mega World Healing Ministry, Giwa Agbado in Ifo Local Government Area of the state for allegedly defiling a 16-year-old girl. In a statement on Saturday night, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Superintendent Omolola Odutola said John has been having unlawful carnal knowledge of the …

A Christian cleric of the United Methodist Church (UMC) identified as Oscar Mukahanana reportedly committed suicide following the leakage of his adultery scandal on the church’s WhatsApp group. The cleric who was a Reverend at the Harare East District Superintendent in Zimbabwe, engaged in an extra-marital affair with a female youth in the church. There were reports that the audio …

One Prophet Segun Philip, 42, and Owolabi Adeeko, 23, have been sentenced to death by hanging by an Osun State High Court, sitting in Ikire, for killing Favour Daley-Oladele, a final year student of Lagos State University for ritual purposes. Justice Christiana Obadina while delivering judgement on the case in Ikire on Monday, also sentenced Bola Adeeko aged, 46 years, …

An Ondo State High Court sitting in Akure, the state capital, has sentenced a man, Ajayi Famakinwa to 18 years imprisonment for impregnating a 15-year-old girl Famakinwa, 60, a pastor, was arrested by the police for committing the offence in 2021 at Ayede Ogbese in the Akure North Local Government Area of the state. The victim was said to be …

A 43-year-old pastor, Paul Oyewole has been arrested for faking his own death to avoid paying a N3 million debt owed to his church members. Ondo-based Oyewole was on Thursday brought before the Magistrate’s court for prosecution. He was arraigned before Chief Magistrate Mosunmola Ikujuni, and charged for fraud and pretence. It was gathered that Oyewole had lent the money …