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Is TB Joshua on the Run?
Nigerian ‘Prophet’ T.B. Joshua’s prolonged public absence is not only raising concerns among his followers but severely damaging local business in the area where his church is situated.
The last time Joshua was seen in public was nearly three months ago at a ‘Miracle Crusade’ in Mexico City, allegedly attended by over 150,000 worshippers.
However, since his return to Nigeria, the cleric has uncharacteristically not appeared in any church service at The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN), all of which are broadcast live on Christian television channel ‘Emmanuel TV’.
On June 7th 2015, Joshua released a statement via Facebook, stating, “I came back from the revival trip last week Saturday, waiting for God’s command on what to do next. I can’t wait to join you.”
However, almost two months down the line, which has seen the controversial conclusion of a coroner’s inquest into the tragic building collapse of a guesthouse within his church last year, there’s been nothing but silence.
Last Sunday 26th July made it 12 consecutive weeks of absence.
It’s the first time in over 25 years of ministry that T.B. Joshua has missed a church service, barring foreign ministration and his arrest and 2 week incarceration by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) over charges of drug-dealing in 1996, which were later dropped.
A report by Nigeria’s Sunday Guardian newspaper chronicled the economic effects Joshua’s ‘disappearance’, coupled with the reduction in church services since the building collapse last year, has had on the local environment.
“If you come here on Sunday, you will find that a lot of shops are closed. There’s no more business,” a shop owner on the street close to the church lamented to The Guardian reporter, the welfare of most businesses in the area connected to the church’s fortunes.
“If you go there now (Ikotun-Egbe) and see the market, you will realise how bad things have become. If it were before, at this time, you would be seeing many people, foreigners, coming and going… Even those hotels – the workers are crying because people don’t come there again.”
“I think all you newsmen should come together and talk to this man and see what is happening,” a Nigerian cab operator angrily told The Guardian.
“Programs have totally stopped. Foreigners don’t even see him on TV live. If they just see him on TV in the Sunday services, they will come. A lot of them bought their tickets. But there has been no prayer line,” he continued.
“We are just waiting and praying to God to make him restart the programs. The bitter fact is that there is nothing that can be done to stimulate business in this area. Without foreigners coming and injecting their resources, there is nothing, virtually nothing else to fall back on.”
A Muslim fabric trader in the region, Mrs Eyitayo, however, stated that the evolving events were ‘retribution’ for the selfish antics of local house owners who evicted many tenants in order to cash in the church’s popularity by converting their houses to hotels.
“The man (T.B. Joshua) is doing good but some people are doing bad because of the money they are seeing. When you drive tenants out, and they don’t have anywhere to go, some of them will cry to God. This thing that has happened will let them know that there is God.”
Eyitayo reminisced the time she regularly ordered new clothes from Dubai when visitors, especially foreigners, streamed en masse to the area to worship at the church.
“Two years ago, if you came here, you would think you were overseas because we traded in dollars,” she stated, bemoaning the regions recent drop in fortunes.
Engr. K. Y. Aminu, owner of Kaywy Lodge, a hotel along Segun-Irefin Street near The SCOAN, admitted that his customers were currently paying half-price.
“Business is zero,” he lamented. “I am partially closing down. The 10 rooms here are undergoing conversion,” he explained, adding that he was forced to reduce his staff due to inability to pay their wages.
According to The Guardian report, even international airlines are feeling the impact, as one of Nigeria’s foremost tourist destinations is passing through an uncannily ‘dry’ phase.
Joshua’s supporters believe the pastor is in a period of ‘fasting and prayer’ but the call for him to reappear is certainly heightening, evidenced by various petitions on the cleric’s Facebook page.
“I know that when he eventually steps out, it will be with an explosion of prophetic fire,” a shop owner near the church in Lagos optimistically told the Guardian reporter, hoping that Joshua’s eventual re-emergence will revive the waning local economy
http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/07/synagogue-church-vs-lagos-coroner-community-groans-as-prophet-lies-low/
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Jesus Christ: Serial Rapist
July 28, 2015 at 8:03 am
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahA
Θεσσαλονίκης
July 28, 2015 at 9:40 am
A schizophrenic man who believes he is Jesus kidnaps women who refuse to believe his delusion He videotapes himself with these women he has tied up in various states of bondage. He sends videotapes to the media labeled “Gospels of Blood,” which are just photographs of naked women in bondage, usually crucified in some way, with the camera panning and zooming over the photos.
Control Tower
July 28, 2015 at 10:31 am
Surely, God will laugh last… the clock is ticking.
TB J. Akaponokwa
July 28, 2015 at 8:11 am
TB Joshua is in Latin America on the run from the law
No God No Master No Prophet
July 28, 2015 at 8:14 am
Temitope Balogun Joshua, sakawa prophet of Nigeria, where are you, oooooooo! Please I beg you, come out of hiding and face the consequences of your atrocities.
Shame on this false prophet of Nigeria, TBJ!
TB Joshua is hiding in hell
July 28, 2015 at 8:19 am
TB Joshua is not returning from mexico, . He hides for court. This whole church is a mess for a long time. Stagnant, repeating the same old nonsence again. In the old days, God sent His prophets, to get the church on track again. In these days, the prophets are the ones who cause the barriers for the people to move on. TB Joshua is a lost noise in the air. The members did not received anything for months by now, and still his fans are protecting him. TB-Joshua-fans! You are plundered, mis-used, deceived and robbed! Go home. Scoan has more stickers, flags and bracelets and Anoited waters and pictures with TB Joshua on it, then there are Jesus-icons of the world. Move on.
Anti- Tb Joshua
July 28, 2015 at 8:23 am
TB Joshua the lying false private prophet.
kaps
July 29, 2015 at 9:19 am
Be very careful with your comments
419 prophet
July 28, 2015 at 8:27 am
Hiding from view and presence, he clearly knows he is dead meat, waiting and trying to bribe at utmost level to silence the voices against him.
How it was possible to let him leave Nigeria is a mystery. How can it be ? In the middle of a trial going elsewhere and then disappear ? But then again, here it is Mexico, a country with lots of corruption and unstable populace.
THE CHURCH OF MAN-WORSHIP HAS FALLEN!
July 28, 2015 at 8:32 am
Just like the WWII evil Hitlers companions who disappeared to Chile and Argentina to escape from being questioned, so we see TB Joshua like a real gangster doing the same, trying to fix his tattered image with Laywers from all over the world to save face. Why would a man of God even do such a thing if God is for you who could be against you ? You would not have to do all these drastic measures to do such a thing.
But I am glad that the world is waking up to scammers like TB Joshua, Joel Osteen, Benny Hinn, Richard Roberts and many others
THE CHURCH OF MAN-WORSHIP HAS FALLEN!
james tembo
July 28, 2015 at 8:34 am
PROPHET OF DOOM NOW HIDING ONE WHO FAILED TO KNOW THAT HIS HOTEL WOULD COLLAPSE SHAME!!!
major chileshe
July 28, 2015 at 9:51 am
Even jesus ws asked why he didnt save himself by that guy on the cross,remember?
Edwin
July 28, 2015 at 8:35 am
God’s time is the best. I know the devil is celebrating, lies have short legs.
Pastor TB J. Lufyono
July 28, 2015 at 8:37 am
blind idiot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Aaarrgh!
July 28, 2015 at 8:50 am
Stop defending the imposter spirit that is not flowing from God.
Money Profit
July 28, 2015 at 8:36 am
“Lets-play-church-service-today” again.
Edwin
July 28, 2015 at 8:45 am
You think he has gone forever so that you can be free with your evil, God is great he will surely prevail. Haters.
blink
July 28, 2015 at 8:53 am
Are you telling the world that some personalities are above the law & cannot be punished even if they killed 116 people.
honest
July 28, 2015 at 8:47 am
Their so called Emmanuel is AWOL.
More and more we see these charlatan and false private prophet being exposed of what he is and SCOAN and what is running it. Always hiding, always finding excuse, always have a different story …
KINDOKI PROPHETS
July 28, 2015 at 8:58 am
TBJ is the “evil-beast” of an African church
Yasanda
July 28, 2015 at 8:59 am
True he is mental sick. blind followers can not see this man is mental.
major chileshe
July 28, 2015 at 9:46 am
Touch not the anointed
FREE THINKER
July 28, 2015 at 5:11 pm
You really seem to enjoy self deceit even when the truth is hitting you on the head.
Control Tower
July 28, 2015 at 10:26 am
Time of Jesus, this blogger should have shouted “Yes crucify him…!!!” Kikikiki repent my friend!
Judge Joe Bidden
July 28, 2015 at 9:00 am
I have long said it his arse will soon get locked up… He will run to eternity but the law always catchup with fugitives
i said it first
July 28, 2015 at 9:18 am
Who’s under control of the SCOAN now that tbj is hiding?
Judge Joe Bidden
July 28, 2015 at 9:22 am
Eish maybe his junior pastors that’s why numbers for his followers has also dwindled
terrific
July 28, 2015 at 9:04 am
Till date, this false prophet has not shown any repentance for the souls he has destroyed, but keeps devising more lies and bribing journalists to help him cover up his misdeeds.
Well, well, all I will say is that this false prophet, TBJ will stew in his own pot of concoctions, deceit and lies and would have no more excuses……..
Just wait and see!
Observer
July 28, 2015 at 1:58 pm
Unfortunately some people will never see reason.
In spite of all the black marks stacking against old tb through this saga, his brainwashed îdîots are still shouting glory hallelujah praising that West African con-artist
Holy Molly
July 28, 2015 at 9:09 am
TB Joshua is a master deceiver and can play the “holy” role superbly.
He is not a man of God and he is just plays on peoples feelings. He has other plans in line that will suite himself.
kakolwe
July 28, 2015 at 9:16 am
REMIND!!
Its a Friday, 15:00hrs, 2016 years ago. Jesus says ” IT IS FINISHED”
Lucifer’s camp goes into celebration! You can hear sentiments like:
“Twamunaya kapuli!” “Afwa mambala, ebeni High priest aposepo nomuchopo”, “Let’s celebrate the death of this rogue with a huge party!”
Then came a SUDDENLY!
The party ended suddenly too!
2,016 years later, we are still foolish enough to celebrate an illusion before we know the outcome?
Mwasekelela umono ati lisabi!!!
St. Lisbon
July 28, 2015 at 5:47 pm
Kakolwe, you are such a gifted writer with a lot of imagination and I believe there’s a lot you are yet to do. Have you published any works? Is there a way we could link up and work on a story together?
kakolwe
July 29, 2015 at 3:35 pm
THANX @St Lisbon. You friends here at Tumfweko have really made me realise what other potentialities lie idle within me. I am seriously considering writing. I’ll think about asking admin at Tumfweko to advance my email to you, JJB, Beautiful Moma & Abene bansamba.
Θεσσαλονίκης
July 28, 2015 at 9:31 am
Joel Osteens and TB Joshua. The doctrine polluters of this age and practitioners of lies.
kasantana
July 28, 2015 at 9:36 am
Kakolwe,uli shani mwaiche..yabaaa,you have made my day
major chileshe
July 28, 2015 at 9:49 am
Very few believed jesus ws the son of God
Observer
July 28, 2015 at 2:13 pm
The world is watching. We have seen through his endless lying scams and deceptions, money siphoning with false deliverances, fâkê miracles ..etc
Control Tower
July 28, 2015 at 10:20 am
Forgive them Father for they do not know what they are doing. Jesus was treated the same to the cross, what about the Man of God today, in this evil world?
Wisdom
July 28, 2015 at 2:14 pm
A CULT IS NOT A CHURCH.
CAPITALIST NIGGA
July 28, 2015 at 11:48 am
Control tower you are a JOKE!jst like your man of GOD
charity tengeleko
July 28, 2015 at 11:54 am
uuumh dis false prophet also let him come back & prove his innocence, hez so shameles,at man of god atfa sacrificing doz south africans hez decided to shift devil at its highest pick thak god pipo are now waken up eish.
Wisdom
July 28, 2015 at 2:15 pm
If he did nothing wrong why is he hiding?
peter
July 28, 2015 at 12:07 pm
Prophet TB Joshua may GOD bless you. The truth will come out one day.
Teti
July 28, 2015 at 1:54 pm
If people are that stupid that they have to follow a self proclaimed prophet, they deserved to swindled.
Liyah
July 28, 2015 at 12:25 pm
TB Joshua is and forever a prophet of God, keep talking imfwe ni foward tuleya. Very soon nkaseka imbushi shimo.
AWAKE!!!
July 28, 2015 at 12:47 pm
Hey Tb joshua b!tches stop moaning about that crook of a man.
I God
July 28, 2015 at 1:03 pm
He’s not a fûckîng Prophet. He is a thief.
GREED
July 28, 2015 at 1:51 pm
Snake oil salesman.
zambian
July 28, 2015 at 1:29 pm
waitting upon my God,in him truth is revealed.tb Joshua we love u,seek Gods strength,the devil is a liar.
meanwhile...
July 28, 2015 at 1:52 pm
He should be held criminally accountable for his deceit
Tricksters at work
July 28, 2015 at 2:19 pm
When will the police go down to SCOAN and put some handcuffs on the tb josh. Is 118 deaths not enough to motivate the police to do their constitutional duty?
Mundetele
July 28, 2015 at 2:29 pm
Ooh oooh! TBJoshua missing? Are you people sure? This man maybe alot of things but he is sitting on a gold mine, why would he take off and leave without trace?
He is just playing the psychological game, so that when he reappears he can create ecstatic fever among his followers. Part of the big scam!
norris mwashi
July 28, 2015 at 3:11 pm
the bible says never insult an anointed man of GOD hest you get cursed by your own foolishness… may GOD deliver you!!!!!!
Ku Tima Fye
July 28, 2015 at 4:43 pm
Voetsek!! You and your scammer false prophet. Your god is not everyones “GOD” ka!!
Prophet Commits Suicide
July 28, 2015 at 4:47 pm
End time prophets.
Miracle hawkers
Miracles for sale
chilesheology installs an ATM at church
July 28, 2015 at 4:25 pm
12 weeks x 7 days > the biblical 40 days. So we can’t say the enviable businessman is on retreat to the mountains.
Anyway, herewith new miracle pricelist:
1. Own an Ipsum instantly – $1,000
2. Bring back lost lover – $500
3. US and UK visa – $5,000
4. Be the next Messi – $15,000
5. Be the next Slap For Major Kanene – $15 (on sale)
6. Replace Two Bee Josh – priceless
VisA, Amex, MT N mobile, Soona all accepted (no coins please).
chilesheology installs an ATM at church
July 28, 2015 at 4:32 pm
But wait a minute, every disaster has an opportunity waiting beyond!
Before you arrest him Nigeria, can he bless my 35,000 liters of water in my new Fiat tanker I just bought from Atosh Transport? Then I will buy sachets left over from the banned tujilijili business and repack the holy water and resell to travellers at intersh*ty terminus.
Prophet Commits Suicide Inside
July 28, 2015 at 4:46 pm
Prophet Commits Suicide Inside Kirikiri Prison – Crime – Nigeria
R.I.P, but as a pastor why will you beat someone up for refusing to pay you deliverance fee. I though God’s healing is free.
Shi ali
July 28, 2015 at 5:19 pm
Yayaya thngs r bad,,,,,wat z he scared of??
Ghetto
July 28, 2015 at 5:23 pm
People should stop judging and create false stories.
Natty
July 28, 2015 at 5:28 pm
– B. MARLEY –
“Running Away”
Ya running and ya running
And ya running away.
Ya running and ya running
And ya running away.
Ya running and ya running
And ya running away.
Ya running and ya running,
But ya c a n’ t run away from yourself
C a n ‘ t run away from yourself –
C a n ‘ t run away from yourself –
C a n ‘ t run away from yourself –
C a n ‘ t run away from yourself –
C a n ‘ t run away from yourself.
Ya must have d o n e (must have d o n e)
Somet’in’ wrong (something wrong).
Said: ya must have d o n e (must have d o n e),
Wo! Somet’in’ w r o n g (something w r o n g ).
Why you c a n ‘ t find the
Place where you b e l o n g?
Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do (running away);
Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do (running away);
Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do (running away);
Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do (running away);
Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do (running away).
Every man thinketh his
Burden is the heaviest (heaviest).
Every man thinketh his
Burden is the heaviest (heaviest).
Ya still mean it: Who feels it knows it, Lord;
Who feels it knows it, Lord;
Who feels it knows it, Lord;
Who feels it knows it, Lord.
Ya running and ya running
And ya running away.
Ya running and ya running
And ya running away.
Ya running and ya running
And ya running away.
Ya running and ya running
But ya c a n ‘ t run away from yourself.
Could ya run away from yourself?
Can you run away from yourself?
C a n ‘ t run away from yourself!
C a n ‘ t run away from yourself!
Yeah-eah-eah-eah – from yourself.
Brr – you must have d o n e somet’in’ –
Somet’in’ – somet’in’ – somet’in’ –
Somet’in’ ya d o n ‘ t want nobody to know about:
Ya must have, Lord – somet’in’ wrong,
What ya must have d o n e – ya must have d o n e somet’in’ w r o n g.
Why you c a n ‘ t find where you b e l o n g?
Well, well, well, well, ya running away, heh, no –
Ya running away, ooh, no, no, no,
I’m not (running away), no, d o n ‘ t say that – d o n ‘ t say that,
‘Cause (running away) I’m not running away, ooh! (running away)
I’ve got to protect my life, (running away)
And I d o n ‘ t want to live with no strife. (running away)
It is better to live on the housetop (running away)
Than to live in a house full of confusion. (running away)
So, I made my decision and I left ya; (running away)
Now you comin’ to tell me (running away)
That I’m runnin’ away. (running away)
But it’s not true, (running away)
I am not runnin’ away. (running away)
Moondo
July 28, 2015 at 6:47 pm
Where can I get that Bob Marley song? That guy was really “wisdom in lyrics”
destroyer
July 28, 2015 at 7:49 pm
U re jst cursing yourself May God forgive u, do not judge yo friend.God loves u
The Civilised Sam
July 28, 2015 at 8:04 pm
TB Joshua is alive-God will never forsake TB Joshua & all forces against him will not prosper,at an appropriate time,all will be well!God bless all of us & protect TB Joshua from all evil forces!
Israeli
July 28, 2015 at 8:45 pm
I take him the way he claims to be lest I sin against God.bt request evidences of his criminality and falsehood from u who think and say so
KC
July 28, 2015 at 9:29 pm
TB is simply fasting.He will show up after 40 days.
Rich
July 29, 2015 at 1:21 am
Fellow Christians, y bother yourself responding to this devilish language? Have u not read that the things of God are foolishness to those who are perishing?
Kasai
July 29, 2015 at 8:09 am
Nalemyeba ati Joshua litole
fenafrex
July 29, 2015 at 3:28 pm
it does not take the majority to win,but it takes GOD to understand spiritual things.TB JOSHUA Your GOD is my GOD.Goodmorning man of GOD,YOUR fasting is a blessing to us!you are my mentor PAPA,devil watch out for kick backs!!!it Gona be FIRE FOR FIRE
J. CHiiiKALI!
July 29, 2015 at 4:09 pm
Commenting No sense o tb Joshua ninshi paliba ofo waikata mu satanism..
Jesus follower
July 30, 2015 at 9:34 am
2timothy 3:12 indeed,(tb joshua)all who desire to live a Godly life in christ jesus will be persecuted ,13 while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse,deceiving and being decieved. 14 but as for you,(scoan members) continue in what you hve learned and have firmly believed,knowing from whom you learned it.
KWACHA
July 30, 2015 at 10:22 am
THE BIBLE SAYS, DO NOT BELIEVE EVERY INSPIRED EXPRESSION TEST THE INSPIRED EXPRESSION WHETHER IT IS COMING FROM GOD BECAUSE SO MANY FALSE PROPHETS HAVE GONE OUT INTO THE WORLD.(1JOHN 4:1-4 AND MATHEWS 7:21-25 SAYS NOT EVERYONE SAYING LOAD LORD WILL ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD………………