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The General Overseer of God’s Favour Ministry, Iba, Lagos State, Pastor Daniel Onwugbufor, has been arrested by the Nigeria Police Force, Ogun State command, for armed robbery.

The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.

According to the Police PRO, “The pastor was arrested along with one Israel Animashaun recently through technical intelligence by men of Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) led by Uba Adams.
Read more: http://naijachurchnews.com/police-arrests-pastor-robbery/

The Lagos State Government, on Saturday, sealed the zonal headquarters, Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), in Ajegunle, Ajeromi-Ifelodun Local Government, a hotel in Ikeja and six other structures, for allegedly breaking government seal and developing the structures illegally in the state.

No fewer than 11 artisans found within the sealed building premises when officials of Lagos State Building Control Agency (LASBCA), visited were arrested, arraigned before an Ebute Meta Mobile Court, and sentenced to different jail terms.
Read more: http://naijachurchnews.com/lagos-state-seals-rccg-seven-structures/

The Benin Monarch, His Royal Majesty, Oba Ewuare II, has condemned the rise in human trafficking and illegal immigration in the country, considering the increasing number of churches in the society.

Oba Ewuare II, stated this when he received the Spiritual Leader and General Overseer of Spirit and Life Family Bible Church, Apostle Deb’rah Eunice Gordon-Osagiede, in his palace in Benin.

He stated that reports indicated that some church leaders were encouraging human trafficking and illegal migration, instead of discouraging encouraging it.
Read more: http://naijachurchnews.com/human-trafficking-churches-not-enough-says-oba-benin/

The Nigeria Police Force, Oyo State Command, on Thursday, paraded a pastor, an Islamic cleric, and two others, for allegedly caught with suspected human parts in the Ayegun area of Ibadan.

The State Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Odude, said Alfa, Sulaiman Hamed, 35, participated in the Fidau prayers for a dead man but later contracted two men to exhume the corpse because he needed the body parts for money ritual.

According to Odude, the two accomplices; Olapade Saheed, 32, and Olatunji Abiodun, 26 – were later caught with the deceased’s head and other body parts, leading to the arrest of Hamed and Tope Akinyele, 45, who claimed to be the pastor of a church in Ojagbo, in the Oranyan area of Ibadan.
Read more: http://naijachurchnews.com/pay-n2500-human-flesh-islamic-cleric-confesses/

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Kaduna chapter, during a brief meeting on Wednesday, passed a no confidence vote against President Muhammadu Buhari, saying his administration had failed to decisively tackle the herdsmen’s massacre currently threatening the corporate existence of the nation.
The body also opposed the establishment of cattle colonies across the federation, pointing out that the move was tantamount to creating the colonies for the “foreigners to continue to wage unrelenting war against innocent Nigerians.

The chapter secretary, Rev. (Dr.) Sunday Ibrahim, during a briefing yesterday in Kaduna, called on the electorate to vote credible persons at the 2019 elections.Speaking while receiving the leadership of the state council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Ibrahim said government had failed in delivering governance.
Read more: http://naijachurchnews.com/can-passes-vote-no-confidence-buhari/

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor E.A Adeboye, on Monday, during his ministration at the birthday thanksgiving service of Bishop Oyedepo’s wife, Faith Oyedepo, who clocked 60 years on February 2nd, revealed how God delivered Mrs Oyedepo from the hands of death.

Bishop Oyedepo, had, during the service, revealed how he got connected with the Adeboyes and how God used Baba Adeboye during his wife’s illness.

Oyedepo said, “The Lord connected us by divine direction to the spiritual family tree of Baba Adeboye. During the time of my wife’s challenge she was already published as dead and they went to Redemption Camp to distribute it.”
Read more: http://naijachurchnews.com/pastor-adeboye-recounts-initially-informed-oyedepos-wife-death-years-ago/

The Catholic Church, on Wednesday, raised concerns over the growing instreaming of Cameroonian refugees into border communities in Cross River State, Nigeria.

Caritas Nigeria, an arm of the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria (CSN), said the influx of the refugees into Nigeria has compounded already impoverished Nigerian communities.
The National Director of Caritas Nigeria, Rev. Fr Evaristus Bassey, said in a statement that “recently, there has been increased agitation for self-actualization in Cameroon, which has led to the destruction of life and destabilization of the polity and eventual migration of the people of South-West Cameroon into Nigeria through the borders and has created a refugee situation in some states of Nigeria.
Read more: http://naijachurchnews.com/church-raises-concern-influx-refugees-nigeria/

Pope Francis, on Sunday, announced that Friday the first full week of Lent would be a day of prayer and fasting for peace given the many ongoing conflicts throughout the world, particularly those in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan.

“Facing the tragic continuation of conflicts in different parts of the world, I invite all the faithful to a special day of prayer and fasting for peace Feb. 23, the Friday of the first week of Lent,” the Pope said Feb. 4.

He asked that the day be offered specifically for the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan and invited both non-Catholics and non-Christians to join “in the ways they deem most appropriate.”
Read more: http://naijachurchnews.com/pope-announces-fasting-prayer-congo-south-sudan/

The Federal University of Technology, Yola (FUTY), on Monday, has been shut down over an ongoing pandemonium at the School premises. There has been a claim by Muslims students that, a fellow student made a blasphemous remark against Prophet Muhammed.

According to the students who are currently on the run following the unrest at the campus, few weeks to the Student Union Government, SUG election, there was a threat by a student on a Facebook page warning the school authority should take action against the alleged claim of blasphemy or the Muslim students would take all necessary action to stop academic activities in the institution.
Read more: http://naijachurchnews.com/university-shut-christian-muslim-students-riot/

The operatives of the Nigerian Army on the 1st of February, 2018 killed three persons who were trying to kidnap a cleric, who pastors with Mountain of Fire Ministries at Isiokpo community, Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State.

The abductors had trailed the victim, identified as Pastor Lawrence, to his home in the morning to kidnap him when luck ran out on them.

A source who pleaded anonymity, disclosed that the cleric while driving home had noticed that a car was trailing him.

Read more: http://naijachurchnews.com/3-kidnappers-killed-clerics-abduction/

Covenant University has emerged the first place winner in Nigeria’s stage of global CFA Institute Research competition.

Covenant University beat University of Lagos and Obafemi Awolowo University which emerged second and third place winners respectively, in the competition held in Lagos on Saturday.

Eight universities took part in the competition.

Covenant University will consequently represent Nigeria at the Regional CFA competition in Dublin, Ireland, on April 4 and April 5.

Read more: http://naijachurchnews.com/covenant-university-beats-unilag-others-research-competition/

The Youth Wing of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) will organise a 76-hour musical concert to God in 16 countries to celebrate the 76th birthday anniversary of the church’s General Overseer, Pastor Enoch Adeboye.

Precious Akingbade, the RCCG National Young Adults and Youth Pastor, announced this at a news conference in Lagos.

He said that the Marathon Messiah Praise would take place in Nigeria at the Youth Center, Redemption Camp, Km 46, Lagos/Ibadan Expressway.

Read more: http://naijachurchnews.com/16-countries-76-hour-concert-celebrate-adeboye-76/

A 52-year-old pastor, Sunday Obiali, was arraigned by security officials on Friday at Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly forging land documents.

Obiali, a resident of Mushin, Lagos, is charged with for forgery and damage. According to the prosecutor, Sgt. Aondohemba Koti, the accused committed the offence on April 2, 2017 at Okota, Lagos.

He said that the accused forged a document for a plot of land belonging to Mr Emmanuel Okpala. “The accused illegally occupied a land belonging to the complainant, ” he said. Koti said that the accused and the complainant fought over the plot of land.
Read more: http://naijachurchnews.com/pastor-arraigned-court-allegedly-forging-documents/

Pope Francis, on Thursday, gave spiritual counsel in a homily at the Casa Santa Marta. He urged Christians to always remember that death is inevitable and so their way of life should be holy.

Spending time reflecting on your own death can be a freeing experience, and one that can even help us to become better people.

Death “is a fact that affects everyone,” the Pope said Feb. 1. For some people it may come sooner and for some later, but regardless, “it comes.”
Read more: http://naijachurchnews.com/remember-death-inevitable-pope-counsels/

A 17-year-old boy, Sunday Omowaye, was on Friday arrainged before an Ikeja Magistrate court for allegedly defiling a 9-year-old girl.

The accused, a fashion designer who resides at 14, Baale St., Ilaje area in Ajah, suburb of Lagos, was charged with defilement.

The Prosecutor Insp. Clifford Ogu, told the court that the offence was committed on Jan. 18 inside a church in Ilaje area of Ajah, Lagos.
Read more: http://naijachurchnews.com/teenage-boy-arraigned-allegedly-defiling-minor-church/

A spiritual leader in India, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, has been charged for forcing more than 400 of his congregation to undergo castration in the bid to get closer to God.
According to a report by the News Agency of Nigeria, he was charged by Central Bureau of Investigation.
“The charge sheet against 50-year-old Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was filed by CBI in a special court Thursday,” a senior police official said Friday.
Read more: http://naijachurchnews.com/unbelievable-spiritual-leader-forces-400-followers-undergo-castration/

A nun who was kidnapped nearly a year ago in Mali has cried for help in a video in which she asks Pope Francis to intervene.

Franciscan Sister Gloria Cecilia Narvaez Argoti of Columbia was kidnapped on February 7, 2017 in Karangasso, near Koutiala in southern Mali, close to the border with Burkina Faso. She had been working there as a missionary for six years.

Previously, she had appeared in a video broadcast in July 2017 by the ‘Groupe de soutien à l’ Islam et aux musulmans’, which reporters said was the main jihadist alliance in the Sahel region, linked to al-Qaida. It showed six Western hostages kidnapped in Mali or Burkina Faso.
Read more: http://naijachurchnews.com/kidnapped-nun-asks-pope-help/

It seems unusual for Born-again ladies to rock tinted hairs such blonde hairs but this Nigerian lady wears one and she wears it beautifully well.
Nigerian actress and movie producer, Taiwo Aromokun is rocking her new look.

The University of Lagos graduate, with a degree in Banking and Finance is said to relocated to England after her marriage had failed.

She was married to one Olayemi Abimbola aka ‘Ogun of Holland’ on December 26 2012. Taiwo is a twin and she also gave birth to a set of twin in july 2013.
Read more: http://naijachurchnews.com/born-nigerian-actress-rocks-blonde-hair-photos/

God is done with the All Progressive Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says the Spiritual leader of the Celestial Church of Christ, Elisha Parish, Alakuko, Lagos, Rev. Marcus K. O. Tibetan. He predicted that a candidate from a new party would emerge the next President of Nigeria.
As the race to the 2019 general election gathers momentum, many clerics have been making their predictions known. While some have predicted President Muhammadu Buhari’s return, some others insist that PDP would produce the next President.

But Tibetan said that God showed him a 55-year-old fair-complexioned man, an economist from Edo State, who would become Nigeria’s next President. He added that the former minister of education and co-convener of the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, Mrs. Obiageli Ezekwesili, would be chosen as Vice President.

Read more: http://naijachurchnews.com/neither-apc-pdp-will-win-2019-election-cleric/

Popular gospel artistes, CeCe Winans, Hillsong Worship, and Reba McEntire were among the stars who took home Grammy awards in the Christian music categories.

Held Sunday at Madison Square Garden in New York City, the 60th annual Grammy awards had five categories in the field of Gospel and Contemporary Christian Music.

CeCe Winans won the “Best Gospel Performance/Song” award for “Never Have to Be Alone,” Hillsong Worship won the “Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song” award for “What a Beautiful Name,” and famed country music singer and producer Reba McEntire won the “Best Roots Gospel Album” with her Sing It Now: Songs of Faith & Hope album.
Read more: http://naijachurchnews.com/cece-winans-take-home-grammys-gospel/

Many more Nigerians sing gospel songs, including non-Christians. In 2018, these gospel acts will hit the nation and the globe by storms with mouth-watering hits.

Naijachurchnews brings the acts to watch out for in the New Year:

Frank Edwards

Frank Ugochukwu Edwards, a member of Christ Embassy Church is a talented instrumentalist

He has featured one of the best gospel artistes in the world, Don Moen in his album and is signed to Christ Embassy Love World Records.

Frank’s unique voice has bagged him numerous awards such as Male artist of the year, song of the year and best male vocal.
Read more: http://naijachurchnews.com/10-gospel-acts-2018/

There is a saying that a branch does not fall too far from a tree. This is true of some preachers in the nation whose children are walking in their footsteps.

Naijachurchnews.com chronicles some of the preachers’ kids in the nation:

PASTOR ADEOLU ADEBOYE

He is the eldest child of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) General overseer, Pastor Enoch Adeboye and his wife, Folu.

Adeolu has been described as a very busy and energetic man who has devoted his life to establishing and regulating efficiency of all standards of operation in the RCCG.

Pastor Adeolu heads the Nehemiah team, the church’s department that provides efficient security and control traffic on the redemption camp grounds.

He is happily married to Mrs Tope Adeboye and they are blessed with children.
Read more:http://naijachurchnews.com/7-top-preachers-kids-ministries-jayjay-begusa/