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Apostle Chikere’s Ex Husband, Pastor Martins Accuses Her Of Forgery, Fund Diversion, death threat
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By Francesca Hangeior
A Lagos-based cleric and founder of Heaven’s Gateway Ministries, Apostle Chikere Nwafor, has been accused by her ex-husband, Pastor Martin Ugbulu, of alleged forgery, financial fraud, and pl0tting ag@inst his life, following a protracted dispute over church funds and jointly owned properties in Nigeria and the United Kingdom.
Pastor Martin alleged that his ex wife, Apostle Chikere c0lluded with a surveyor to forge property documents in a bid to take sole ownership of a house they jointly built at Amen Estate, Lagos.
Martin claimed he only discovered that his name was omitted from the property documents when he arrived in Nigeria in November 2024, despite fully funding the house alongside his former wife.
“I trusted her completely because we were married. In marriage, one plus one is one. I had no idea she had criminal intentions to rob me of my investments in Nigeria,” he said.
Beyond the Lagos property, Martin accused the cleric of diverting large sums of money from church transactions in the UK into her personal account.
He alleged that while managing Heaven’s Gateway Ministries in London, she collected at least £100,000 in deposits from two different churches interested in purchasing the ministry’s building, including Church of God Mission, but failed to refund the money when the deals collapsed.
“To show you the kind of criminal behaviour involved, when the church in London was being set up, I helped her to purchase the building. I handled the mortgage process and all related matters.
“After the church started, membership began to dwindle. She became worried and said we might not be able to maintain the building or keep up with the mortgage payments. I suggested that we focus on Nigeria instead and sell the London property.
“We attempted to sell it. I contacted an agent friend who advertised the property. The Church of God Mission, the late Archbishop Idahosa’s church, expressed interest through their resident pastor in London, Pastor Obinna Madubuko. They paid a £50,000 holding deposit toward the purchase.
“By law, because we were a registered charity, such funds should have been kept with the agent or, at worst, paid into the church’s charity account for accountability. Instead, she bulli£d the agent into transferring the money into her personal UK bank account,” he said.
Martin told SaharaReporters that when the buyers could not complete the purchase due to mortgage issues, she insisted that the entire £50,000 should be forfeited.
“I told her this was not done anywhere. At most, a £10,000 penalty, maybe £20,000, would have been reasonable. I refunded £30,000 to them myself. She refused to refund the remaining amount and has still not done so to this day,” he said.
“Later, a pastor named Richard, a Ghanaian pastor at Winners Chapel in London, became involved. He was the same pastor who officiated our wedding. He introduced a fellow Ghanaian prophet as a potential buyer. She again collected £50,000 from this man into her personal account.
“She misled him by claiming that the building’s planning use could easily be converted. Initially, it was under D1 use, which allowed conversion to a church, school, or hospital. Later, it changed to F1, which has stricter classifications. Many boroughs do not allow ordinary commercial buildings to be converted into churches.
“I personally worked with the planning department at Bexley Council, had several meetings with the department head, and learned that they disliked the word “church.” I renamed it “Fellowship,” and that was how we succeeded. However, the Ghanaian pastor insisted on calling it a church and eventually asked for a refund,” Martin stated.
Martin noted that Chikere took both his money and the Church of God Mission’s money to Nigeria and refunded no one.
Martin said, “With no buyers left, the only option was to lease the building. She lied to everyone, including the trustees, that the people I brought (RCCG) were paying £6,000 monthly. That was false. They have been paying her £10,000 monthly, which continues to this day. She then disappeared to Nigeria with the money.
“In addition, there was another smaller building. Someone gave us the remainder of a 13-year lease at no cost. I renovated that building at my own expense. I charged her nothing. I also renovated the larger building without charging her, believing we were one.”
Martin told SaharaReporters that before he travelled to Nigeria, he secured a white woman who runs karaoke and exercise classes for retirees.
He said, “We agreed on £3,000 monthly rent. All these payments go directly to Chikere. Nothing is accounted for or shared. That property costs us nothing; it was given to us free under the remaining lease.
A late-night fire has destroyed six houses, several shops and storage facilities at Kofar Wanbai Market in Kano State, with property worth millions of naira reportedly lost.
The fire broke out at about 9:43pm on Friday in the Babban Layi, Yan Robobi section of the market, according to the Kano State Fire Service.
The agency’s Public Relations Officer, Saminu Abdullahi, confirmed the incident in a statement issued on Saturday.
He said a distress call from a Principal Fire Superintendent, Usman Idris Fagge, prompted the immediate deployment of firefighting teams from the state headquarters and stations at Rijiyar Zaki, Sabon Gari, Government House and Bompai.
Abdullahi said firefighters arrived to find the blaze had engulfed parts of a two-storey building measuring about 120 by 125 feet and used mainly as plastic shops and storage facilities.
He identified the affected houses as Gidan Alhaji Sani, Gidan Sani Muhammad, Gidan Alhaji Kwa Kwa, Gidan Alhaji Shafi’u and Gidan Alhaji Sulaiman.
According to him, the fire started on the upper floor before spreading to two shops on the ground floor, two on the first floor, six permanent stores and four temporary units on the top floor.
Firefighters eventually brought the inferno under control and prevented it from spreading to adjoining sections of the busy market.
Preliminary findings by the fire service indicated that the blaze was caused by a faulty solar system installation.
The Director of the Kano State Fire Service, Sani Anas, urged traders and residents to observe fire safety measures, install smoke detectors and ensure that functional fire extinguishers are available in commercial and residential premises.
A Kaduna-based man, Nasiru Musa Idris, has accused Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi of allegedly keeping his Moroccan wife away from him for about 11 months after he took her to the cleric for counselling.
Idris made the allegation in an interview with RFI Hausa, claiming he took his wife to Gumi after the cleric requested to counsel her because she was young.
According to him, his wife stopped responding to his calls after the meeting, while attempts to have security agencies investigate the matter were allegedly frustrated.
“For 11 months now, my wife has been in his hands through injustice and ill-treatment. He has no relationship with her; she had never known him. The only place they knew each other was through me,” Idris alleged.
Gumi, however, has denied the allegation, insisting that the Moroccan woman had already left Nigeria and was in Morocco with her parents.
The cleric, who declined to provide further details because the matter is before a court, also threatened to sue Idris for defamation.
“But I will take him to court for defamation against me. As for the issue of the girl, she has already left Nigeria and she is in Morocco happily with her parents,” Gumi said.
Idris said he first met Gumi at a pharmacy on Isa Kaita Road in Kaduna while he was with members of his family and later introduced his Moroccan wife to the cleric.
He said his wife had no prior connection with anyone in Nigeria before he travelled to Morocco to marry her, adding that the marriage was conducted with the approval of her parents and relevant authorities.
“The Moroccan girl had never known anyone in Nigeria and nobody knew her except through me. I went to seek her hand in marriage in her country, and we had an engagement with the approval of the embassy and the approval of her parents,” he said.
The dispute, according to Idris, escalated after Gumi allegedly asked him to obtain another marriage certificate from a Sharia Court despite the couple already having marriage documents issued in Morocco and Nigeria.
“I told him that I did not agree with the marriage certificate he told me to obtain. Later, he went to the Sharia Court in Malali and asked them to issue one to him,” Idris alleged.
He said he submitted several documents supporting the marriage, including papers from Nigeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Nigerian embassy in Morocco, alongside other documents and a police character report.
Idris further alleged that Gumi later sought the dissolution of the marriage and interfered with efforts by security agencies to investigate the matter.
He urged the cleric to honour a police invitation and submit himself to questioning.
“My complaint is that he should come forward and answer the invitation of the police so that an investigation can be conducted. If he is right, there is nothing stopping him from going to the authorities to clear his name,” he said.
Idris also rejected claims that his wife’s mother travelled to Nigeria and took her daughter back to Morocco.
He maintained that he personally processed the documents that enabled his wife to travel to Nigeria, insisting that he only took her to Gumi because he trusted the cleric and believed he was seeking to help the young woman.
“Because I trusted him, I took her there. From then on, whenever I called, she did not answer the phone,” he alleged.
Meanwhile, Malam Nasiru Ayuba, popularly known as Dan Agaji, chairman of the Volunteers of Sultan Bello Mosque, Kaduna, and Gumi’s personal assistant on special assignment, denied that the cleric kept Idris’ wife in his house.
“The allegation that Malam kept his wife in his house is not true. It was the woman herself who went to Malam to ask him for help,” Ayuba said.
He claimed that the Moroccan woman approached Gumi over a personal matter and sought his intervention, after which the cleric took the matter to court.
“She brought the matter herself because she knew what she was going through. Th
Today sons and daughters of Ikwerre LGA in Port Harcourt held a civic reception in his honour.
The message was as they declare that on election day, before 11 am, Rotimi Amaechi will tell his people to boycott the election because he knows there’s no way he’ll defeat us. If he wins his village, Ubima, then he has won the election. That’s if he will win his own polling unit.
Watch below:
Fire Guts Kano Market, Destroys Six Houses, Shops, Warehouses
Moroccan Wife Has Been Away From Me for 11 Months — Husband Accuses Sheikh Gumi
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