ISREAL OLADELE GENESIS: HOW HE DEFRAUDED THE LONDON BASED BUSINESSWOMAN

Popular prophet and Shepherd-in-charge of Celestial Church of Christ, Genesis Global  Parish, Israel Oladele Ogundipe aka Genesis was sentenced  to two years imprisonment by Lagos State High Court   for defrauding an abroad-based woman, Mrs Olaide Williams-Oni.

According to source, Ogundipe, who has been on trial since 2011,about this particular case, was charged with seven counts of obtaining by stealing, inducing delivery of money by false pretences, unlawful conversion of property and forgery.

In her testimony, Williams-Oni had told the court that she met the prophet in 2002 during her visit to Nigeria when she was taken to his church for prayers by her step-sister.

Mrs. Oladele Williams-Oni, in 2010, said she was allegedly defrauded of over N17 million by the Shepherd-in-Charge of the Celestial Church of Christ, Genesis Parish, Alagbado, Lagos , Prophet Israel Ola-Ogundipe.

" she first met Prophet Israel Ola-Ogundipethe in 2002 during her visit to Nigeria when she was taken to his church for prayers by her half-sister, Mrs. Ogungbemi."

"He told me something about my husband in one of his prophecies that I should not have anything jointly with him because he was having an affair behind me. He gave me a liquid to drink and I started vomiting. I was asked to sit down and he lit a candle and said I should be there until the candle-light goes off" she said.

"According to Williams-Oni, on her return to London, Ola-Ogundipe called her and advised her to invest in landed property in Lagos, an advice she heeded after consultation with some persons."

"Williams-Oni said she sent money to Ola-Ogundipe in five installments of N900,000, N2.5 million, N8.5 million, N2.7 million and 12,000 pound sterling between 2002 and 2005 to purchase the property on her behalf."

"She alleged that after collecting the money, the prophet converted some of the said property for his personal use and refused to refund the money for the others."

"When I confronted him about this, he started threatening my life and blackmailing me. He was saying that I had a son for him, which became an embarrassment to my family', she claimed."

However, in her judgement, the presiding judge, Justice Olabisi Akinlade found the clergyman,Prophet Isreal Oladele,  guilty of two of the seven charges brought against him and dismissed the remaining five over lack of evidence.

Akinlade ordered that he should pay the complainant the sum of N11m, which he illegally obtained from her.

“Both sentences are to run concurrently and the defendant is to restitute the complainant the sum of N2.5mi in respect of count two (stealing) and N8.5million in respect of count 4 (unlawful conversion of property not delivered),” the judge said.

Following the judgment, Rotimi Odutola, lead prosecuting counsel for Lagos State, thanked the court for the ruling.

According to the prosecution, Ogundipe committed the offence between August 30, 2002 and 2005.

During that period, he is alleged to have fraudulently obtained N14m and £12,000 in various tranches from the complainant.

Between August 30, 2002 and December 2003 at 32, Bello St Ladipo Estate, Shogunle, Lagos, he allegedly received N2.9m from Williams-Oni to purchase an uncompleted building for her but fraudulently converted the money to his own use.

The prosecution said that between March and December 2003 at Commint Bureau De Change, Broad Street, Lagos, he stole £12,000 from the complainant, which was meant for the purchase of four plots of land for building a mosque.

He is alleged to have stolen N8.5m between October 2002 and March 2003 from Williams-Oni for the purchase of landed properties in Lagos, Odutola revealed.

The prosecution also noted that on diverse days between 2002 and 2003, he had received N2.6m from the complainant by falsely representing to her that he is a man of God and that the money was to be used for his church.

 

 

FIRST CLASS MONARCH MURDERED BY GUNMEN IN ONDO STATE

A first class monarch, Oba Adegoke Adeusi, the Olufon of Ifon in Ondo State, has been murdered by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers, Oba Adeusi was killed on Thursday evening at a spot around the Elegbeka axis of the town.

According to source,the monarch was returning to his palace from Akure, the state capital, when he was killed.

The source said, "The king had earlier attended the meeting with all Obas in Akure and while on his way he was kidnapped which caused apprehension in the community.

"But while we were trying to ensure his rescue, we saw that he had already been killed by the kidnappers. It is very sad.”

 

Alhaji Jimoh Akintola Odutola(1905- 2010): IJEBU MAN PER EXCELLENCE

Alhaji Jimoh Akintola Odutola(1905- 2010) industrialist, mining magnate, textile dealer and philanthropist.

Jimoh Odutola was one of Nigeria’s pioneering Industrialists and most successful businessmen. Born in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, he was the younger brother of the famous businessman/ philanthropist Chief Timothy Adeola Odutola. Jimoh did not have the benefit of Western education. He started out at age 12 as a Houseboy and apprentice Cattle trader to Alhaji Abdul-Kareem Otupa. That stint ended in 1918 due to the global influenza pandemic of that year. At age 16 with £6 seed money from  Sanni Bilesanmi, his stepfather, he started his own business as a textile trader. In 1927, he ventured into the transport business, by 1929, he went into cocoa produce merchandise, achieving great success both in terms of resources and reputation. 

In 1932, at his mother’s insistence, he went into partnership with his brother, Adeola Odutola, who had been a court clerk and a part-time trader, with considerable experience as an administrator. The brothers were involved in produce marketing and export, weaving, gold mining. In 1948, the partnership failed with each brother going his own way, they became each other’s rival, their rivalry was bitter. As fate would have it, each became phenomenally successful in their own right. 

In 1950, he set up J.A Odutola and Company Ltd as the corporate umbrella for his business. Four years later, he set up the West African Tyre Retreading and Company Ltd, the first tyre retreading company in Africa, so successful was this company that Jimoh Odutola was invited by the governments of Ghana and Kenya to come and set up factories in their countries. Odutola was also a pioneer in the manufacturing of rubber and plastic foam with his establishment of the Nigerian Rubber Foam Company in 1958, and the Nigerian Plastic Foam Company in 1960. By 1951, he had opened an office in the United Kingdom, in Oldham. In 1967, he was awarded a certificate of merit as the first African to visit the North Pole. The same year, he was the first African to fly on Lufthansa Airline from Tokyo to Alaska, Alaska to Copenhagen. 

Even though he had no Western education, he made sure that all his 24 children were educated to the best of each person’s ability. One of his children is Prof. (Mrs). Ebun Clark, a pioneer Professor of Theatre Arts in Nigeria and wife of renowned writer/ poet the late Prof. J.P. Clark.

Alhaji Jimoh Odutola was a great philanthropist. He built a secondary school and a Koranic institute in Ijebu-Ode – jummah Odutola College. He built a 9 miles road from Irogbo to Ipinredo, in Ilesha, also worthy of mention was his donation of 200 mattresses to the Ibadan Garrison organisation in support of the Nigerian Government during Biafran War. 

He lived to the ripe old age of 105 years and remained throughout an epitome of modesty. He shunned the limelight and ostentatiousness.

source: shola adebajo/ Bimbola Babarinde

 

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FAKE NEWS: MAN BEHIND FAKE VIDEO OF BUHARI MARRYING SADIYA FAROUQ CHARGED TO COURT

A Nigerian man accused of circulating fake video shown President Muhammadu Buhari marrying one of his female cabinet ministers has been charged in the Kano state.

The video showed President Buhari with Humanitarian Affairs Minister Sadiya Umar Farouq.

The Department of State Services arrested Kabiru Mohammed in January but only charged him on Tuesday.

The department said the suspect had confessed to creating the fake wedding video.

The court heard that the fake video had tarnished the character of Mr the people involved and caused disaffection within their families.

The department requested the court to deny Mr Mohammed bail to allow them to conclude investigations and seek legal advice from the justice ministry in Kano state.

But the court granted him bail after his lawyer argued that the offence was bailable. The next hearing is on 5 February 2021.

Source: BBC

 

APOSTLE SULEMAN LIES AGAIN ~~HOW MY SPIRITUAL SON WALKS INO TOILET IN GERMANY AND SURFACES IN TOILET IN FRANCE !

Apostle Johnson Suleman,the overseer of Omega Fire Ministries International has narrated another unbelievable story how his spiritual son “supernaturally landed in France from Germany without documents or ticket.”or even boarding a plane.....!!!

according to the self-acclaimed prophet,he shared the testimony while preaching in his church,said that one of  his spiritual son got the directive of going to France from “God” after getting a prophecy from a church in the European country.

He disclosed that the man was asked to go to an airport in Germany and also join a queue of those whose documents were being processed for a flight to France.

However before it got to his turn, Apostle Suleman said “God” directed his spiritual son to go to the toilet. While in the toilet, “God” asked him to pray and speak in tongues. Upon opening his eyes, he was in the toilet of an airport in France.

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TWO YOUNG MEN ARRESTED FOR GANG RAPING A 14-YEAR OLD GIRL IN OGUN STATE

The Ogun State Police Command said it has arrested two young men, identified  as Michael Hammed Azeez, 20 and Adeola Ogunseye, 22.  for allegedly kidnapping and gang raping a 14-year-old girl.

They were said to have been arrested following a complaint lodged at Owode Egba divisional headquarters by the mother of the victim.

It was gathered that the mother told the police that her daughter was abducted by the two suspects on November 3 at about 8:30 pm and taken to an unknown place where the duo took turns to forcefully have carnal knowledge of her.

According to her, the victim was later found seriously battered along school road, Owode Egba in Obafemi Owode Local government area of Ogun State.

Consequent upon this, Oyeyemi said the DPO of Owode Egba division, CSP Mathew Ediae, had mobilized his detectives to the area where the two suspects identified by the victim were apprehended.

DAILY POST learnt that the house of the suspects were searched and the torn pants of the victim was recovered therein.