LAGOS — James Anelu, the parish priest of Holy Trinity Catholic Church Ewu-Owa Gberigbe in Ikorodu, Lagos, stunned his parishioners when he angrily halted the choir midway into a song, sung in Igbo, during the second collection at mass last Sunday. In his annoyance, he prohibited the singing of Igbo gospel songs in the church, with the justification that he was initially stopped from presiding over a burial mass in Awo Omama, Imo State because...

Samuel, the son of Funmilayo Adebayo, an evangelist nicknamed Mummy GO, and now trending on social media, has said that his mother is not bothered about the hellfire memes circulating online. He, however, said many of the texts attributed to his mum in the memes about hellfire were fabricated and untrue imaginations. Samuel, while speaking to journalists on Friday, said though his 54-year-old mother made some comments about some actions that might attract hellfire as...