He was found guilty of causing petrol to be poured on seven members of his church on July 22, 2006 at the church premises, and throwing a lit match at them with the intention of setting them ablaze.

A Nigerian high court has sentenced a preacher in Lagos to death by hanging after setting alight members of his flock, killing one.

Hearing continued yesterday in the case of attempted murder and murder preferred against Emeka King, the embattled founder and General Overseer of the Christian Praying Assembly in Nigeria.

Emeka King, pastor of the Christian Praying Assembly in Nigeria, stands accused of attempting to murder seven people.

The prosecution yesterday closed its case in the ongoing murder and attempted murder charge preferred against the founder and General Overseer of the Christian Praying Assembly, Mr. Emeka Ezeugo, known by his adherents as Rev. King and informed the court that it has proved its case beyond reasonable doubt to convict the accused person on charges against him.

It was another startling revelation yesterday on the kind of lifestyle the founder of Christian Praying Assembly (CPA), Mr Emeka Ezeugo a.k.a. Dr Rev. King lived in his church as his former maid, Miss Onuorah Susan Chizobar told an Ikeja High Court that she was always stark naked on the orders of Rev. King anytime she wanted to serve him. Rev. King is presently on trial for the murder of one of his members, Miss Ann Uzor and attempting to murder five others by pouring petrol on them and setting them ablaze…

A pathologist from the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Dr Sunday Sokunle Soyemi yesterday told an Ikeja High Court that late Miss Ann Uzor a member of Christian Praying Assembly (CPA) who was allegedly set ablaze resulting into her death by the founder of the church, Mr Emeka Ezeugo (Dr Rev. King) died from severe loss of body fluid following the third degree burns she had.

Two medical doctors and brother of a member of Christian Praying Assembly (CPA) Lagos, late Miss Ann Uzoh yesterday said that the young lady died of severe burns. Pastor of CPA, Emeka Ezeugo alias Rev. King is currently under trial for murder of late Miss Uzoh last July.

Two medical practitioners, including a certified pathologist, testified yesterday in an on-going attempted murder and murder trial involving Lagos Clergyman, Mr Emeka Ezeugo, alias Dr Reverend King, asserting that late Miss Ann Uzoh King, one of King's victims, died from severe loss of body fluid caused by second and third degree burns, with 75 per cent of her surface skin roasted to the muscle level by petrol fire. Hearing continues today.

More startling revelations emerged in court yesterday, in an on-going attempted murder and murder trial involving Lagos clergyman, Emeka King King, when his house manager and former co-accused person, Miss Kelechi Chikere, told a stunned court audience how she aborted four pregnancies she got from her alliance with King, and drank his sperm daily for a week, to seal a covenant between them.

Details about the murder trial of Nigerian pastor Emeka King who allegedely set some of his followers on fire.

Getting to meet with the embattled general overseer of Christian Praying Assembly, Reverend Emeka Ezeugo King, more popular as Rev. King, inside the confines of Ikoyi Prisons in Lagos where he is being remanded for alleged murder of one of his worshippers, Ann Azuh was really a herculean task.

For the second time in less than a week, the followers of Rev. King and the Area boys clashed in Lagos leading to the death of one of King’s supporters and injuries to some others. The pandemonium which started at the early hour of yesterday shortly before Rev. King was arraigned in the court paralysed business activities at Costain and Ebute-Metta.

As usual parliamentarians had a lot to talk about when they gathered at a news-stand at the Yaba Bus-stop last week Thursday. Among the issues that came up for discussion was the story of one Emeka Ezeugo aka Reverend King who was reported as having bathed some members of his church with petrol and set them on fire leading to the death of one of them. Rev. King, the pastor of a Lagos-based church, the Christian Praying Assembly(CPA), has been in the news since the incident was first reported in the media.

After weeks of investigations into the fire attack on six church members by the General Overseer of the Christian Praying Assembly (CPA), Lagos, the self-styled ‘His Holiness, (Dr.) Emeka Ezeuko Kingsley, police reports have gravely indicted him, described his as “evil incarnate.”