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Crisis In Christ Embassy Deepens As Oyakhirome Moves Against Sinach

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January 3, 2024

The crisis of confidence erupting Christ Embassy church has deepened as Chris Oyakhilome tightens the noose against Sinach, a gospel artist.

Pastor Chris Oykhilome is the founder of Christ Embassy, also known as Believers Love World.

Osinachi Egbu, fondly called Sinach had been the anointed daughter of Chris Oyakhilome and a member of the church until recently when her appearance at the church numerous services dropped to zero level.

Information has it that Sinach was groomed in Christ Embassy and given a platform to showcase her talent.

She has enjoyed the love and support of Oyakhilome over the years.

It became obvious that the relationship between the two is not as solid as it used to be when a few years ago Sinach attended the annual interdenominational programme, The Experience, which is usually organised by the founder of House on the Rock, Pastor Paul Adefarasin.

Her attendance enhance insinuation that she had switched church and become a member of Adefarasin’s led church.

Beyond that, signs that the relationship has broken down irretrievably emerged when Sinach’s ministry grew in leap and bounds and virtually stopped attending Christ Embassy because of different singing engagements that took her round the world.

Report has it that Oyakhilome was not too pleased with the fact that she wasn’t active in church again.

Even when Sinach and some other gospel singers, who grew and became established through Christ Embassy, ministered in some of the branches of the church, it was alleged that they demanded large sums of money as royalty which Oyakhilome consistently frowned at.

He instructed Sinach to return to her local assembly and be part of the singing ministry there.

He also encouraged her to take Christian singing engagements almost for free as a sort of blessing to the body of Christ, but the gospel act would have none of that.

The pastor allegedly stopped most of her songs from being played or performed in his church and the decision also affected other music ministers who were discovered in the church.

Oyakhilome had called for a gospel ministers’ conference where he expected the gospel act to be in attendance and even play a major role, however, she didn’t turn up for the conference.

The cleric felt disappointed that Sinach should be a role model for all other established acts from the ministry, but she has ignored most of the instructions he gave and has not been on very good terms with her since then.

The singer made a cryptic post last week on her Instagram page and many alleged that she was referring to the issue she had with her pastor. She wrote that what has happened to her as a gospel minister has in no way hindered her ministry but it has helped to further expand it.

This, perhaps, may have provoked what has been described as an attack on Sinach’s lyrics by Oyakhilome especially her “Way Maker,” a contemporary worship song released as a single on 30 December 2015.

The song has been covered by a number of Christian music artists worldwide including charting hit versions by Michael W. Smith, Mandisa, Leeland and Passion.

Sensational parts of the song include “Way maker,” “Miracle worker,” “Promise keeper,”
“Light in the darkness,”
But during a recent service, Pastor Oyakhilome indirectly attacked the key messages in Sinach’s popular song saying that “God is not a miracle worker. He is not a promise keeper. He is not a light in the darkness. As you hear the word and you are thought, we are the miracle worker.

“He is seated at the right hand of the Father. He is in the sabbath.

“He is not working now. The Bibles says He is waiting till his enemies is made his footstool. But He must reign till then through us. So, we are the miracle worker.

“All the promises has been fulfilled in Christ. He is not keeping any promises. You are the result of his promises,” Oyakhilome told the large congregation which has gone viral on social media.

Reacting, Pastor Ekene Nicodemus of God Own People International Ministry said: “He {Oyakhilome} has a personal issue with his praise and worship leader SINACH so he’s trying to DESTROY her label using the holy altar.”

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Serbia Indicts Ex-minister, 12 Others Over Train Station Tragedy

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September 16, 2025

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Serbian prosecutors filed an updated indictment on Tuesday against 13 people, including a former minister, over a fatal railway station roof collapse that has triggered a wave of anti-government protests.

The prosecution said all those indicted, among them former construction minister Goran Vesic, face charges of “serious crimes against public safety” over the tragedy that killed 16 people last November.

“The indictment proposes that the Higher Court in Novi Sad order custody for all the defendants,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

The roof collapse at the newly renovated station in Serbia’s second-largest city, Novi Sad, became a symbol of entrenched corruption and sparked almost daily protests.

Protesters first demanded a transparent investigation, but their calls soon escalated into demands for early elections.

The Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Novi Sad initially filed an indictment at the end of December, but judges returned it in April, requesting more information.

The accused were released or placed under house arrest following the decision.

The prosecutor’s office said it had complied with the judge’s request and had now completed the supplementary investigation.

The prosecutor specialising in organised crime and corruption in Belgrade is leading a separate, independent investigation into the tragedy.

That investigation is focused on 13 people, including Vesic and another former minister, Tomislav Momirovic, who headed the Construction Ministry before him.

In March, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) launched a third, separate investigation into the possible misuse of EU funds for the station’s reconstruction.

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Kazakhstan Bans Forced Marriage, Bride Kidnapping

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September 16, 2025

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Kazakhstan has banned forced marriages and bride kidnappings through a law that came into effect Tuesday in the Central Asian country, where the practice persists despite new attention being paid to women’s rights.

Forcing someone to marry is now punishable by up to 10 years in prison, Kazakh police said in a statement.

“These changes are aimed at preventing forced marriages and protecting vulnerable categories of citizens, especially women and adolescents,” it added.

Bride kidnappings have also been outlawed.

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“Previously, a person who voluntarily released a kidnapped person could expect to be released from criminal liability. Now this possibility has been eliminated,” the police said.

There are no reliable statistics of forced marriage cases across the country, with no separate article in the criminal code prohibiting it until now.

A Kazakh lawmaker said earlier this year that the police had received 214 such complaints over the past three years.

The custom is also present in neighbouring Kyrgyzstan, where it mostly goes unpunished due to indifferent law enforcement and stigma surrounding whistleblowers.

The issue of women’s rights in Kazakhstan gained media attention in 2023 following the murder of a woman by her husband, a former minister, a case that shocked Kazakh society and prompted President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to react.

“Some people hide behind so-called traditions and try to impose the practice of wife stealing. This blatant obscurantism cannot be justified,” Tokayev said last year.

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Russia Arrests Woman For Detonating Bomb On Railway

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September 16, 2025

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Russia’s FSB security service said on Tuesday it had arrested a woman in her fifties accused of detonating explosives in a bid to sabotage the Trans-Siberian Railway.

The suspect was allegedly working on behalf of Ukrainian intelligence, the FSB said, in the latest incident of alleged covert activity during the countries’ conflict.

“In August 2025, following the instructions provided by the adversary, the suspect manufactured a homemade explosive device from publicly available components, placed it on the railway tracks and triggered it,” the Russian agency said.

“She recorded the moment of the explosion on her mobile phone camera and sent the footage as a report to the handler to receive a reward.”

The statement did not name the suspect but said she was born in 1974 and carried out the alleged attack in eastern Siberia’s Zabaikalsky region.

The FSB warned Russians that it was monitoring social networks and online messenger services such as Telegram and WhatsApp for evidence of Ukrainian services recruiting Russians to carry out sabotage.

Separately, the agency told state news agency TASS that a man had been sentenced to 18 years and six months for transporting explosives on behalf of a “pro-Ukrainian” group.

A resident of the Bryansk region, which borders Ukraine, had, the FSB said, established contact through the Telegram app with a banned “terrorist organisation”.

He allegedly retrieved explosives from a cache on the orders of this group before waiting for “further instructions”, according to the same source cited by TASS.

He was jailed by a military tribunal.

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