A black bird, flying in company of two other black birds, suddenly
landed on a moving pick up van, owned by Eko Distribution Company.
Like magic, the bird transformed into an old woman.
Residents of Ajegunle, where this amazing scene happened were said to have been bewildered.
Pastors descend on Church Overseer who is to die by hanging in Rivers State for the murder of his pregnant mistress, her friend and nine-year-old daughter.
The involvement of supposed men of God in heinous crimes has left a big
question mark as to who really is a man of God and how does the public know one?
In a recent case, in Rivers State, the General Overseer of Altar of Solution and Healing Assembly, Pastor Chidiebere Okoroafor, blamed the devil after being sentenced to death by a Port Harcourt High Court for the murder of his choir mistress, her friend and 11-month-old toddler.
And the response from the clergy was “you were never a man of God.”
Manifestation of the beast in Afam, Oyigbo Local Government Area based Okoroafor came into light when operatives of the Homicide Department of Rivers Police Command apprehended him on December 17, 2017 following the alarm raised by one Joseph Ezenwa.
Ezenwa’s wife, Chigozie, with nine months old Christabel strapped to her back, had accompanied her friend, Orlunma Nwagba, to meet Okoroafor, their pastor.
In the police account of his confession, Okoroafor had, in a secret sexual affair, impregnated 25-year-old Orlunma, his church choir mistress.
Both friends on December 11, 2017 set out to confront the General Overseer to resolve the scandalous pregnancy issue.
Apparently decided on erasing the looming scandal on his own terms, Okoroafor had separated his visitors.
He lured the pregnant choir mistress to an uncompleted building while asking her friend to stay three “poles” away.
According to then-DCP Cyril Okoro of the Rivers Police Command, the pastor strangled Orlunma in the uncompleted building.
He then rejoined Chigozie and left with her and her baby on a tricycle (keke) to Afam Roundabout.
From the roundabout, they took a motorbike on lonely Igberu Road.
Okoroafor murdered his second victim in an isolated bush, using the wrapper with which Chigozie strapped her baby to her back to suffocate her.
“The baby was equally discovered dead. This murder by the suspect was premeditated, callous and devoid of human sympathy,” Okoro had said, adding that the pastor manipulated both friends after taking advantage of the trust they had in him.
Retribution
Eight years after, Justice S.O Benson, in the June 6, 2023 judgment, said the evidence and confessional statements from the pastor showed he committed the crime.
The prosecution, having proven the case of murder against the cleric, the judge ordered that Okoroafor be killed by hanging or served lethal injection which kills faster.
Counsel from the state Ministry of Justice, Precious Ordu, said the prosecution was undaunted despite receiving threats through the trial and that it was gratifying that “justice has been served to state, the complainant, and the convict”, while also thanking the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) which brought up the case before the state took over.
Resolved to appeal the judgment, counsel for the defendant, Dr Innocent Ekwu, said the court ‘misconceived the law’, adding, “The court held there was no eyewitness, not even one throughout the trial. The court also held there was no circumstantial evidence linking the fellow to murder.
Good news for the parents of a stolen baby in Abeokuta, Ogun State. The
childless woman Emmanuela Subomi who had stolen the baby has returned the eight month
baby. The baby, Daresimi was returned under the cover of night last
Friday to the Celestial Church where it was stolen.
It was a mystery woman who stole the baby while her mother was singing in the choir a fortnight ago.
Popular Nollywood actress Funke Akindele has got many people talking online following her recent video that surfaced online.
Actress Funke Akindele who has been on top of the game for the past 15 years has acquired a private jet and her dream penthouse.
The Niger Delta Special Force (NDSF) has warned ex-militant leader, Eshanekpe Israel, popularly known as General Israel, over what they termed as an ‘unguarded utterance’ against the founder of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Mujahid Asari Dokubo.
Recall that Dokubo alleged during a visit to President Bola Tinubu at the Villa last week, that the Nigerian military was complicit in crude oil theft in the Niger Delta region.
A young lady who used to hawk soft drinks in Nigeria for hours in the hot sun has finally made it in life.
At a point in the video shared on TikTok, the lady, @sinatu26, showed how hawking for hours had a bad effect on her feet. Her legs had a series of cuts.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has opened up on why he suspended the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele.
Recall that Emefiele was suspended and subsequently detained by the DSS on Saturday, June 10, 2023.
Famous Nigerian singer turned pastor Olubankole Wellington professionally known as Banky W is one of the trending conversations online following infidelity information about him making the rounds.
Reports trending on social media disclosed that Banky W who is married to Adesua Etomi has allegedly impregnated his USA side chick.
This information was made known to all and sundry by the controversial and contentious blog, Gistlover via its page on the photo and video sharing app, Instagram.
The National Agency for Food And Drug Administration And Control, on Thursday, paraded some suspected drug and food fraudsters.
Director General, NAFDAC, Prof. Christianah Adeyeye, in a statement made available to The PUNCH on Friday, said one Mr Okeke Francis of No. 28 Otigba Crescent, G.R.A. Onitsha, Anambra State, was arrested with expired G-Man organic energy drink in Onitsha, Anambra State.
The Eyin Osa Resettlement Committee, Lagos State, has lamented the continued encroachment on their land by suspected land grabbers.
The committee alleged that a realtor, identified simply as Murphy, recently invaded the expanse of land lying at Eyin Osa, Epe Expressway, Epe, with thugs and policemen from the Lagos State Environment and Special Offences Enforcement Unit (task force).
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Sunday Abutu, on Thursday, said the two suspects, Danjuma and Idowu, were arrested on Wednesday by men of the RRS along the NTA Road, Ado Ekiti, while trying to get away with a 25-litre gallon containing diesel suspected to have been siphoned from the generating set.
