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Iluyomade Didnt Rebel, He Was Barred From RCCG City Of David Elder

An elder in the Redeemed Christian Church of God, City of David Parish, Quincy Ayodele, has denied claims that the former Pastor-in-charge of the parish, Idowu Iluyomade, rebelled against the church before starting his own. Ayodele stated that she had expected that Iluyomade would be restored to his parish or another after he had served his three-month suspension handed to him by the church leadership. According to Church Times, in a chat with on-air-personality, Daddy Freeze, posted on his YouTube Channel on Monday, the natural medicine practitioner said she was surprised and disappointed that Iluyomade was given a letter not to step into the church’s premises. The World Health Organisation consultant said she was always going with Iluyomade to the headquarters of the RCCG in Ebute Meta for the three months that he served the punishment. She said, “We were expecting that after the three months he would be restored to the City of David. but to our surprise, whatt we heard was that he was given a letter that he must not step into the City of David.” Ayodele expressed concern about the action of the RCCG, saying, ‘Pastor Adeboye and Pastor Iluyomade were like father and son..They are so close..There is nothing Adeboye wanted that Iluyomade would not go out of his way to make available.” While insisting that Iluyomade did not rebel against the church, she reiterated, ‘He was told not to enter City of David. Why they did that is only known to our daddy, the governing council and God. I cannot answer why. But we are curious.” She said some elders in the church had to step in when it was clear that Iluyomade was stopped from entering the church. According to Ayodele, the concerned elders wrote letters of appeal to the General Overseer of the Church, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, to plead with him not to take such drastic action against Iluyomade. She said, “They wrote letters and signed their names on the letters to Pastor Adeboye. But there was no response from Baba Adeboye.” Ayodele said the next step the Iluyomades took was to start going to Kings Court, another RCCG Parish that Iluyomade pioneered many years ago. ‘The pastor in the church welcomed them and accorded them the honour of the founding pastors, only to be told later that they should not be accommodated. “Pastor Adeboye taught us that if one sheep is missing out of 100, Jesus would go after the lost sheep..I was now asking will he now allow Iluyomade to be lost to the world.” Ayodele, who disclosed she has been in RCCG for about 32 years, said she had to be on the trail of Iluyomade to bring him back to the church. She also denied insinuation that it was the former CEO of Access Bank, late Herbert Wigwe, who was the highest contributor to the building of the Trinity Towers of the City of David. According to her, the iconic edifice was built through the collective contributions of church members. She said, “Pastor Herbert Wigwe did not single-handedly build Trinity Towers. It was a product of the collective efforts of all members of the City of David Parish, including him.” Reacting to the controversy that trailed the 60th birthday celebration of the wife of the former pastor of the parish, Idowu Iluyomade, shortly after Wigwe’s death, Ayodele noted that she was initially unaware of the backlash. “We were all devastated when we heard about our brother’s passing. I wasn’t in the country at the time, so when I heard about the birthday party, I thought maybe Mummy (Iluyomade’s wife) finally gave her approval for it to go ahead. “But the next day, I started reading reports from UK-based blogs, and I was shocked,” she added. Wigwe, his wife, and son lost their lives in a helicopter crash on February 9, 2024, a tragedy that sent shockwaves through Nigeria’s business and religious circles. However, just days after the incident, Siju Iluyomade, wife of the then-pastor of the parish, hosted a lavish birthday celebration, triggering outrage and ultimately leading to her husband’s suspension from the RCCG City of David Parish. She said Iluyomade did a lot for the RCCG and Adeboye, wondering what could have led to the church’s action against Iluyomade. She gave examples of free schools that Iluyomade built, how he fed the hungry every week, and how he impacted the larger society by using church funds. Ayodele said many prominent Nigerians were contacted to beg Daddy GO and change his mind about the expulsion of Iluyomade, but to no avail. “They went to beg him, and he said he (Iluyomade) was paying loan. But he has been paying loans without coming to ask for money from you. So, why don’t you leave him and let him finish paying the loan? “He said it’s okay; he will let him come back. He did not. Other people went to beg him, rolling on the floor and asking for his forgiveness..He did not.” Ayodele said. Asked if the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria intervened in the matter, she said, ‘Who will talk to him if God has not talked to him. My daddy hears from God. It is what God says that he tells us, and we believe him. He will say my daddy says’ and we believe him.” Ayodele said Pastor Iluyomade never planned to start a church, adding that the people they helped abandoned them in their moment of trials. She said. “He does not even know how to start a church. He was an Anglican before he joined RCCG. His father was a reverend. He had left Anglican for almost 32 years. If he goes back to Anglican, where is he going to start from? “I can tell you that the people they helped abandoned them in their moment of trials. They were not even praying for him in the City of David that he left. That was what made me go to him. When I got to him, he was weeping, telling me that he was told not to step into the church.” Ayodele said she was moved to tears when Pastor Adeboye insinuated during his visit to the City of David on Sunday that those who left the Church were demons and that devils built trinity towers. She said, “I started wondering if this my daddy is talking. What is going on?” The health practitioner said she did not follow Iluyomade when he started his church because she believed the matter could still be resolved and that she was mediating. Ayodele said if she had the grace of meeting Pastor Adeboye, she would be him frantically and appeal to him to forgive Iluyomade.

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UK-based Nigerian Doctor Filmed Selling Jobs To Foreigners

A UK-based Nigerian doctor, Dr Kelvin Alaneme, was secretly filmed by the British Broadcasting Corporation in an undercover investigation, allegedly selling fake job opportunities to foreign nationals. According to a BBC documentary, Dr Alaneme, a psychiatrist who had worked for the National Health Service, is the founder of CareerEdu, an agency based in Harlow, Essex. The BBC stated that it launched its undercover investigation following a series of online complaints about his relocation services. PUNCH Metro reports that selling jobs in the UK is illegal. According to the report, CareerEdu describes itself as a “launchpad for global opportunities catering to young Africans” and claims to have 9,800 “happy clients.” The investigation revealed that Dr Alaneme attempted to recruit the BBC journalist, believing she had strong connections in the UK care sector. He was said to have offered the BBC undercover reporter a role as an agent for his business, promising she could make a fortune by securing care home vacancies. “Just get me care homes. I can make you a millionaire,” he was quoted as saying. The BBC report stated, “As a potential business partner, our journalist was then given unprecedented insight into how immigration scams by agents like Dr Alaneme actually work. “Dr Alaneme said he would pay £2,000 ($2,600) for each care home vacancy she was able to procure and offered £500 ($650) commission on top.” Alaneme allegedly planned to sell the vacancies to candidates in Nigeria. “They [the candidates] are not supposed to be paying because it’s free. It should be free,” he said in hushed tones. “They are paying because they know it’s most likely the only way.” One of the victims, a Nigerian man in his mid-30s known as Praise, claimed he paid Dr Alaneme over £10,000 ($13,000) for a job in the UK. “I was told I was going to be working with a care company called Efficiency for Care, based in Clacton-on-Sea,” he recounted. However, upon arrival, he discovered the job did not exist. “If I had known there was no job, I would not have come here,” he said. “At least, back home in Nigeria, if you go broke, I can find my sister or my parents and go and eat free food. It’s not the same here. You will go hungry.” Praise said he repeatedly messaged Efficiency for Care and Dr Alaneme for months, asking when he could start work. Despite assurances from Dr Alaneme, the job never materialised. The BBC investigation found discrepancies in Efficiency for Care’s employment records. The report revealed, “Efficiency for Care employed, on average, 16 people in 2022 and 152 in 2023. “Yet, a letter from the Home Office to the company, dated May 2023 and seen by the BBC, showed it had issued 1,234 Certificates of Sponsorship to foreign workers between March 2022 and May 2023.” In another secretly recorded meeting, Dr Alaneme detailed an even more sophisticated scam involving sponsorship documents for nonexistent jobs. “The advantage of having a CoS that is unconnected to a job,” he said, “is that you can choose any city you want,” he added. “You can go to Glasgow. You can stay in London. You can live anywhere,” he explained. However, the BBC report debunked this claim, stating, “This is not true. If a migrant arrives in the UK on a Health and Care Work visa and does not work in the role they have been assigned, their visa could be cancelled, and they risk being deported.” Dr Alaneme also explained how to fabricate a payroll system to conceal the fact that the jobs were fake. “That [a money trail] is what the government needs to see,” he stated. Responding to the allegations, Dr Alaneme “strenuously denied” that CareerEdu was involved in a scam, insisting that it was neither a recruitment agency nor a service that provided jobs for cash. He claimed that the money Praise paid was forwarded to a recruitment agent for transportation, accommodation, and training expenses. “He said he offered to help Praise find another employer free of charge,” the BBC report concluded.  In a post on his X.com page on Monday, he reaffirmed his stance, stating, “I have never scammed or defrauded anyone in my life. And I never will. “We are not Care Job employers in the UK. Our job is to link qualified employees to legitimate and licenced employers and recruiters who do provide Certificate of Sponsorship.” Emphasizing transparency in their operations, he noted, “We have always made it clear that Certificate of Sponsorship is free. That said, some recruiters and employers charge extra costs. These costs can cover training, transportation, and even accommodation and vary from employer to employer.” He added that in cases where clients were not successful, they were fully refunded these extra costs with no questions asked. He highlighted that their role concludes once an employee successfully arrives in the UK and is handed over to the employer. “Every COS issued by employers to our clients was legitimate, and they all relocated successfully,” he affirmed. He further stated that over 98% of individuals placed through CareerEdu had settled into employment in the UK. Addressing concerns about job placements, he admitted that, on rare occasions, “employers overstated their needs or recruited more persons than they had shifted for.” He also discussed a past engagement with a company named Borderless, which promised access to employers. He explained that the goal was to become a direct recruitment agency to minimize the extra costs charged by recruiters and employers. “The said company said they will take £2k, which should cover training and transportation costs. It sounded too good to be true compared to what was obtainable, which explained why I was enthusiastic about it,” he added. Regarding allegations from a former client named Praise, he asserted, “We presented evidence that every single dime he paid to us was transferred to the recruiter. He knows this, yet he is bent on tarnishing our hard-earned reputation. We will address this legally.” He maintained that CareerEdu has always been driven by the vision to provide global opportunities for young Nigerians. However, he acknowledged a slowdown in their relocation services due to the global anti-immigration climate and unfavourable exchange rates. In response to the BBC’s inquiries, he stated that he provided a detailed account of events, supported by evidence and that his lawyers would be handling the matter legally. A similar report in 2024 detailed how four Nigerians were sentenced to prison for their involvement in a large-scale immigration scam involving the forgery of over 2,000 marriage certificates. The fraudulent documents were used to enable Nigerian nationals to reside illegally in the UK. The convicted individuals include Abraham Alade Olarotimi Onifade (41), Abayomi Aderinsoye Shodipo (38), Nosimot Mojisola Gbadamosi (31), and Adekunle Kabir (54), who were sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court in London on Tuesday, August 27.