{"id":47023,"date":"2014-09-12T16:55:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T16:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=47023"},"modified":"2014-09-12T19:59:12","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T19:59:12","slug":"tb-joshuas-guest-house-collapses-many-feared-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=47023","title":{"rendered":"TB Joshua\u2019s guest house collapses, many feared dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

A rescue operation is underway in Lagos after a building linked to Nigerian preacher T.B Joshua’s megachurch collapsed.<\/p>\n

This is according to the country’s emergency relief agency.<\/p>\n

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said the building — a guesthouse for foreign members of TB Joshua’s the Synagogue Church of All nations (SCOAN) — came down in the Ikotun area of the city on Friday.<\/p>\n

“We are on the way to the scene and have no further details,” NEMA’s southwest coordinator Ibrahim Farinloye told AFP by telephone.<\/p>\n

There was no immediate official confirmation on casualties.<\/p>\n

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TB Joshua, dubbed “The Prophet”, is one of Nigeria’s most famous preachers and televangelists with thousands of followers across the world, attracted by his purported healing powers and prophecies.<\/p>\n

According to his website, his church “hosts thousands of national and international visitors” every year.<\/p>\n

“People travel from around the world to witness and receive from the mighty work that God is doing in the life of Prophet TB Joshua,” it states.<\/p>\n

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Source: news24.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A rescue operation is underway in Lagos after a building linked to Nigerian preacher T.B Joshua’s megachurch collapsed. This is according to the country’s emergency relief agency. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said the building — a guesthouse for foreign members of TB Joshua’s the Synagogue Church of All nations (SCOAN) — came down […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":47024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}