Nigeria, Oct. 22 -- A magistrate court in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital has remanded at a prison facility a cleric who allegedly lured and slept with a sickle cell patient for five years.

The cleric, Samuel Onyeagoziri, is the general overseer of Champions of the Truth Church, otherwise known as Champions Cathedral, in the capital city.

The sickle cell patient had accused the cleric of deceiving her into having sex with him as a way of helping her to get healing from her condition.

Mr Onyeagoziri was arraigned before the court on Tuesday on four-count charge of rape, threats to life, fraud, and circulation of pornographic materials.

The Commissioner of Police in Ebonyi State, Antonia Uche-Anya, personally brought the cleric to t...