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<\/p>\nTemitope Balogun Joshua, popularly known as T.B Joshua; is a well known Nigerian clergyman, the founder and Senior Prophet of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), a large church with its headquarters situated in Ikotun-Egbe, Lagos, Nigeria.<\/p>\n
Prophet T. B. Joshua, Nigerian cleric, televangelist and philanthropist was born on June 12, 1963 in Ondo State, South-West Nigeria.<\/p>\n
The SCOAN website said that Joshua stayed in his mother\u2019s womb for 15 months before being born.<\/p>\n
From 1971 to 1977, he attended St. Stephen\u2019s Anglican Primary School, Ikare-Akoko, Nigeria.<\/p>\n
Joshua did complete one year in secondary school, dropping out and started working at a poultry farm.<\/p>\n
While in school, Joshua was known and called \u2018small pastor\u2019 due to his love and knowledge of the Bible and also his ability to predict the future, according to SCOAN.<\/p>\n
Temitope Balogun Joshua led the \u2018Scripture Union\u2019 during his time in school and in 1987, Joshua founded Synagogue Church of All Nations.<\/p>\n
The church started with a handful of members but has since become one of Nigeria’s most influential churches, attracting over 50,000 people to its weekly Sunday services at the headquarters in Ikotun-Egbe, Lagos.<\/p>\n
The church is popular even outside Nigeria. The cleric was popular across Africa and Latin America. He is famed for having Head of States, captain of industries, celebrities and dignitaries visiting his weekly services.<\/p>\n
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He also runs Emanuel TV, which broadcasts via satellite and Internet. He has affiliated congregations in Ghana, the UK, South Africa, and Greece.<\/p>\n
T.B Joshua, in 2009, kicked off a football academy known as \u2018My People FC\u2019 as part of his efforts to help the youth.<\/p>\n
Temitope Balogun Joshua was rated as third-richest pastor in Nigeria with an estimated net worth of $10 million \u2013 $15 million in 2011 by Forbes.<\/p>\n
No matter how great the clergyman was, there are some controversies that went on about T.B Joshua. Here are some of those controversies below:<\/p>\n
The cleric was heavily criticised due to the large number of miracles that happened in his Church during services.<\/p>\n
In 2012, Zimbabwe police reportedly investigated a \u201cfraudster\u201d church in Harare allegedly linked to Joshua.<\/p>\n
Recall that in 2017, popular televangelist, Chris Okotie, accused Joshua of \u201cshamanist practices,\u201d But he did not, however, provide evidence to back up his claims.<\/p>\n
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Joshua was always seen by fellow Pentecostal pastors and Christians as being unorthodox and the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) denied the Synagogue Church membership.<\/p>\n
In April 2021, YouTube suspended Emmanuel TV channel from its platform, accusing the cleric of hate speech after the T.B Joshua was seen in a video casting out \u2018gay spirit\u2019 from his congregants.<\/p>\n
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