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According to the prosecutor, Tunde Sunmonu, the defendants conspired with others still at large to break into the church and stole mixers, amplifiers and four speakers. Sunmonu added that the defendants also stole from the people in the premises of the church. The defendants were alleged to have committed the offences between November 27, 2015, and December 29, 2015, at No. 4 Ezimorah Street, off Marwa Road, Ijegun, Satellite Town, Lagos. “The accused, while armed with a gun, robbed one Mr Chigozie Orgwu of his HP laptop worth N200,000, two mobile phones worth N110,000, a digital external drive worth N100,000, a watch worth N70,000 and a cash sum of N200,000,” Sunmonu said. He added that the defendants were caught while trying to join an unlawful society, the Eiye Confraternity. The offences, according to him, contravene sections 42 (a), 297 (a), 311 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015. The prosecutor, however, urged the court to remand the defendants in police custody and...

Ayilara who was once a student of Redeemed Bible College (RCBC), an RCCG Pastor School, had written an article in September in which he accused the church's authority of maltreating him while he was in the school. Ayilara said he was questioning some of the things the church was teaching him and many others in the school.When he questioned the church, he was tagged rebellious. Ayilara in his interview with Freeze, narrated how himself and other students of the bible school were kept in unhygienic environment to the extent they were infected with guinea worms and other diseases. He accused the church leaders of forcefully turning them into bricklayers to build houses for the church in the camp ground. He also accused the church of forcing them to do chores for other pastors as well as tendering to the needs of the pastor's household, taking their children to school. He said the church told them that they should count it all as a blessings to do all that they are being forc...