PUNCH Metro learnt that the victims were part of a crowd that struggled to see the church’s General Overseer, Prophet Temitope Joshua, during a special healing service.
Punch correspondent gathered that while two of the victims were identified as Emeka Okonkwo and Emmanuel Oherin, the third victim had yet to be identified.
Their corpses were said to have been deposited in a morgue in the state.
An eyewitness, who did not want to be identified, said the stampede occurred around 4.30am.
He said, “It was the church’s annual deliverance and healing programme. Usually at this time, the church becomes a beehive of activities as people come in their thousands to see the prophet for miracles.
“People lodge in different hotels surrounding the church. And they all arrive at the church very early.
“There is a canopy on the premises where worshippers are screened before they see the man of God.
“However, on Saturday, after being screened, the crowd was much and they started struggling through the doorway to see the prophet. In the process, three people collapsed. They were rushed to the Isolo General Hospital, where they were confirmed dead.”
Another source said the two victims were identified through their phones, adding that the third victim did not have any means of identification.
“Their families were immediately contacted and they identified them. The police from the Ikotun division were also contacted,” he added.
A police source said the corpses were taken in an ambulance, adding that the Ikotun Divisional Crime Officer and the Area Commander, Area M, accompanied them to the mortuary.
As of 2pm when our correspondent left the area, a service was still on in Synagogue.
When contacted, an official of the church, who did not want to be identified, urged our correspondent to forward his enquiries to the church’s email address.
He said, “Mr. Folarin, while I appreciate the fact that you have to do your job as a journalist, I also must protect my personal integrity. I will advise you send a mail to info@scoan.org to confirm before publishing any story.
“Sometimes, rumours get to the press and injure the reputation (of) our subjects, thereby making journalism look like a witch-hunt.
“I will also advise you to be most objective. Please send a mail to the email address before publishing any story.”
Punch correspondent sent an enquiry around 3.54pm which had yet to be replied to as of press time.
When Punch called a telephone number spotted on the church’s website, another official with a foreign accent, denied the incident.
She said, “Nothing happened on the church premises yesterday. Nobody died. Nobody. Thank you.”
The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, however, confirmed the incident, adding that investigations were ongoing.
She said, “The story is true. Investigation is ongoing as we await the result of the autopsy. For now, we are treating the case as sudden and unnatural deaths.”
Investigation on going indeed.
ReplyDelete#My case is different
Shebi they just did shiloh! I did not hear any sickening news oh, meanwhile the crowd there should be more than the ones in that synagogue and that uyo church.
DeletePeople open your eyes. They should better change name to calvary not synagogue. Atleast make people write will before taking up the cross to calvary.
Nigerians!!! Shiloh was shown through out Nigerian via satellite.
DeleteWe all know SCOAN is just one branch in a country. Stoppet
Anon8.51 ha ha ha you are so funny.
DeletePeople will never learn even in the hard way. RIP
ReplyDeleteNaija are so gullible.
DeleteNaija pple are so gullible
DeletePassing by🚶🚶🚶 harmattan is here.
ReplyDeleteLol! Same here! Lips sealed
DeleteHa!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat is all these nau
even the house of God is not safe anymore?
God save your people ooo
RIP to the dead
GOD BLESS MY SANTAS!
GOD BLESS MY ANGEL!!
GOD BLESS SDK!!!
Endtime churches. People usually go to church for healing and redemption, now na to go die and carry curses and deformities.
DeleteNawao for all these bad news, good morning my blog fam
ReplyDeleteHmmmmm! This church issue is getting out of hand in this country.
ReplyDeleteNawaooo
Tragic!
ReplyDeleteBros don use them as his annual sacrifice. Wey Linda?
ReplyDeleteThe same way your father used your life for sacrifice!...
DeleteThat's why you are so useless!...
Hahhahahah epic reply
DeleteEmmanuel.
DeleteMay their souls rest in peace
ReplyDeleteToo bad
Nawa,wetin Church dey cause for dis we country eh..no be small something o.
ReplyDeleteDon't mind them Sassy love. Thieves calling themselves pastors, prophets and bishops. Some mugus must have donated their life savings at the just ended annual 419 ritual called Shiloh. This Thief B Joshua has really killed so many foolish Nigerians and foreigners alike. Seemingly intelligent people turn to idiots the moment it has to do with "my pastor".
DeleteBlunt is definitely Esah, same degree of hate for Christians Esah exhibits. Oponu radarada. Idiotic fellow of the order of people dat knack head on the ground
DeleteAll this blood shed in the house of the Lord
ReplyDeleteMay God hear his people
Yours sdkly dazzlinglizzy
Why are they lying ?
ReplyDeleteExactly, total disregard for human lives. Ain't no difference with politicians.
DeleteAnd the negligence goes on unpunished
ReplyDeleteWhat is really happening in churches these days..am really scared now.God please help us
ReplyDeleteAgain??. ... me I'm not understanding again oo
ReplyDelete.
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... all dz churches sef
I'm beginning to think otherwise with Linda's father in the Lord
ReplyDelete*Larry was here*
Think nah...
DeleteWho cares?...
With all these media pull down against SCOAN,it is still growing higher and higher!!...
Blind leading the blind. I hope it would never get late for you. U go soon turn sacrifice linda. Give ur life yo christ and stop worshipping fake men of God. Hell is real bitch!
DeleteBecause Satan won't give up, he needs more souls for hell.
DeleteThough non of these shits exist, but if it's true according to the blind believer... It's the Christians and Muslims imaginary non-existence Sky-based God. He's thirsty. He needs blood and more souls, and His helper are the pastors, Imams and their followers.
DeleteHian!which kind things be dis?
ReplyDeleteJust imagine
ReplyDeleteWe did Shiloh...no noise
We did Redemption camp RCCG..no noise
Always Synagogue....Be using their gullible members for rituals all the time
God please visit the church and shame all false prophets.
@Galore
Shut up!!...
DeleteGalore aka Mr Bamidele!...
Thief!...
Keep telling lies against a man of God!...
When the fire of the most high start dealing with you,you will blame it on your village people...
Pig!...
Linda why are you pained. She hit a nerve right? Truth is bitter. Bigger swine
DeleteLinda it's time you shut up for once, how many lives and blood should be wasted more for you to know that definitely it's pure sacrifice.
DeleteJesus Christ came to save, only one man came to steal, kill and destroy "Satan". If you are dying there then you are dealing with Satan and his many demons.
My people perish because they lack knowledge.
Carry your Bible and read Linda, show me one place u read that someone came to meet Jesus or get salvation but died in the process, just one place.
@Linda...You are beneath me.
DeleteYou are so Inconsequential
Unam ikot
I put it before you and your foolish likes,that you are beneath
@Galore
If you notice,I don't wank under your comment...You can't withstand my wrath..
DeleteGet that into your thick skull
@Galore
My dear you sound really dumb. Steadilyy blindly defending a killed with absolutely zero powers.I mean facts don't lie. His church has killed several people likewise his false preaching. Nigerians go carry church like head and dem no dey ever use their common sense take reason. No one is felling lies against him. Fact, have people not been dying at synagogue? Fact is he no perpetuating bullshit and causing peoples lives. Church church church, who all the rubbish prayers wen naijas dey pray don help. Na only a poor man believes the bullshit wen dese churches dey spew......ppl kerpbprwying yet the country keeps getting worse. A Nigerian person will go to church, pray and kill u in the name of God. We all need to reformat our freaking brains man....these men if God are nothing but nuisances and my dear when you start defending bs. You too are a bs spewer. If u like curse ur mama.....for ur pocket.
DeleteGalore me beneath you?...
DeleteHahahahaha...
What have you achieved in your miserable life?...
You are still in school since I know you on this blog!...
You no dey finish ni?...
You are cursed mehn!...
Hahaha...@LINDA....how stupid can one person be
DeleteDon't bark like the Mad stray dog �� that you are now
You are really beneath me
And you are really done for.
@Galore
Hear no evil.....See no evil. RIP to the dead.
ReplyDeleteWell this is just the beginning!! The chickens are coming home to roost. All this churchs are going to reap what they have sowed. Rip to the dead
ReplyDeleteThis is not TB joshua's fault
ReplyDeletePeople should be able to use their common sense
Patience is key
There's always another time to see the man of God instead they chose to go about it the fast and wrong way.
RIP to the dead.
You are a very big fool. He should be responsible. Any where there is crowd, there must be measures put in place for STAMPEDE. You are very callous and stupid for making that statement. Do you know what happens when a little knockout is heard in d midst of crowd. You are a very loud illiterate. Go and read about stampede.
DeleteSecondly,why are they denying it? I guess that's my fault too. People died,you fool.
Don't mind them!...
DeleteAnon, how is it Joshua's fault? That the 'stupid' crowd couldn't control themselves or what? They av received permanent healing na.
DeleteWisdom isn't common, it comes from above. Chi Exotic and Linda, go on your knees and ask God to open your eyes. Stop misleading people with this man, judgement day is fast approaching.
DeleteYou're just an angry frustrated educated illiterate anonymous
DeleteThey always wail anonymously
I said what I had to say and it's nothing, but the truth
I live my truth.
So sad.. they went to be delivered and met death.
ReplyDeleteAnother one😞😞😞
ReplyDeleteMay their souls Rip.
Synagogue again? I pray it is not true o. What is happening lord?
ReplyDeleteQueen and boss, I truly hope you are safe?
ReplyDeleteEternal rest grant unto them O Lord...
and let perpetual light shine upon them. Amen.
DeleteYes i am..,
DeleteI didn't even attend but things like happens when their is a crowd!...
*this...
DeleteI get sick in my stomach when I see news like this. Who gets screened to see a pastor??? Did anyone get screened to see Jesus or any other prophet in the bible. Let's continue deceiving ourselves in the name of religion. The rate we have churches in this country one would then wonder why we have so much suffering abound. Black people with black mentality.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you know?...
DeleteYes,you must pass through a screening test before you see my daddy in The Lord cos he is always available to meet even the lowest class of people...
Other churches do it so what's the big deal?...
Seriously. Who get screened to see a pastor.
DeleteDis is naija abeg. U really need to be screened biko.
DeleteSee how they are denying as if say na goat die,it is well.Rip to the dead.
ReplyDeleteSo to want them to talk so they will forge another story for you people?...
DeleteGerrrahia mehn...
*you..
DeleteHmmmmm
ReplyDeleteQueen get in here and explain what happened.
Hahahahaha...
DeleteIt actually happend but the church don't want to start talking to the press cos most of these journalist twist stories...
You will say A and they will twist it to C!...
If you know SCOAN and TB Joshua well,you would know he don't grant interviews...
Gullible Linda, he 'don't' grant interviews but he is quick to grant fake prophecies, taaaaa.
DeleteLinda whose report do we believe? Someone with oyinbo accent said nothing of sort happened. But you are reporting that it happened. As tb joshua right hand man that you 'is' . Karma awaits you all
DeleteLinda be complicating yourself the more, TB Joshua loves publicity more than anything 😵😵😵
DeleteLinda...Linda madam calm down and stop defending what you are not 100% sure of.
DeleteHmmm
ReplyDeleteWhats with all the deaths in churches?
ReplyDeleteHonestly the things happening around makes me really scared o.
We are not safe anymore.
I believe God is not happy with some of these churches.
This same synagogue alot of people lost their lives and was swept under the carpet.
"PUNCH Metro learnt that the victims were part of a crowd that struggled to see the church’s General Overseer, Prophet Temitope Joshua, during a special healing service"
ReplyDeleteWhen people travel from a far distance, another state or country and struggle for weeks sometimes, buy holy water of 7k, pay consultation fees of thousands of naira to see a so called 'man of God' for healing, then something is wrong with their faith and their medulla oblongata. A man who isn't better than you in any form than the arrangee miracles he performs. Someone who has the same link to the Almighty as you.
Christians and Muslims who do this are on the wrong path or faith. Coming all the way from Sokoto to Lagos for a special annual healing program or to Shilloh with a pastor whose power is often times from the devil, or with a voodo performing alfa like there is no God in your base. Like you cant communicate with your God personally. Aren't you the biggest religious MUMU of all time?
I repeat, if you travel from another state to attend Shilloh in Ota, or a special healing programme at Synagougue, seeking deliverance and miracles, you are the biggest religious mumu of all times, and the pastor who organizes and encourages that like he is a God to be worshipped is on a wrong faith QED.
Eesah,
DeleteYou are just a waste of sperm!...
Now I know why you are a riff raff!...
Anti Christ, welcome.
DeleteMost pastors that organize annual programs do that 'annually' coz they want to minister to all their members once. Use ur brain abeg
Jasmine go sit your stinky ass down... scumbag
DeleteEsah you are a fool. Continue your extremism, until I see you in Afghanistan beheading people, I still have hope you may change. Idiot your mates are bombing themselves up you are fighting Christians on a blog. Devil rescatter that your already scattered teeth. With your saliva dripping odour oozing mouth. I can perceive your body odour here. Ozu like you
DeleteCan't all these casualties be avoided? Things like this happening in churches makes one to examine his or her life!
ReplyDeleteChrist second coming is very near.
They won't put the right people in the right places. When they attract crowd,they ought to put safety measures inplace but they don't care. They don't just give a damnn. How can a church get paramedics in church environment? During healing convention. They will call it an abomination.
DeleteThe most painful part is that they put more effort into protecting the image of their church rather than respect the dead. They will never put measures in place to avoid these events when they won't even accept that it happened. Nonsense! These are people's children, fathers, friends that their families will be expecting to spend the christmas with. How did we get here?
Nawa oooo
ReplyDeleteWorld People! Una don come with another one?
ReplyDeleteMay their soul rest in peace.
Meaning?
DeleteOzo kwa.. it's well
ReplyDeleteA family member was there, the crowd was too much hence the collapse of some people. Is not anyone fault
ReplyDeleteShut up there you idiot. I said shut the fuck up you imp. So there are no single measure people take to prevent stampede? What nonsense crow? Is that more than the crowd benny hinn and Bonke pulls.
DeleteYou stupid lot should better start taking responsibities and thats the only way you will look for solutions.
So the one that happened in akawibom because of crowd is the people's fault. Don't you know your church capacity? Why must he allow all the crowd first before starting healing service? Why not spread out registration all thru the month and have the healing service in sessions? Were there paramedics on sight? What if all those people needed was Oxygen to survive? Do you know the distance from SCOAN to isolo gen hosp? Do you think having a medical team on ground is a safety measure that would have helped????
May you be the next victim of church negligence and may no one be held accountable.
You are very stupid. So everywhere there is crowd, people must die.
DeleteI heard they did one Shiloh programme, did you hear any nonsense news? Did you? Those ones are not crowd abi? You re next.
You all anonymous nonentities should go to hell!....
DeleteFucktards!...
Hmmm... Again???
ReplyDeleteWhat exactly is going on in churches these days? This is getting scary.
ReplyDeleteNa wa..o. Lord have mercy. A lot happening lately.
ReplyDeleteAlways in the news for the wrong reasons, and people are still trouping in searching for miracles. Foolish people everywhere.
ReplyDeleteSo many tragedies these days and so many strange happenings.
ReplyDeleteSurely, our Lord Jesus Christ will be here any moment from now, to take the righteous home.
Amen to that!!
Delete@Galore
Look at dogs killer and women abuser talking. When is your next suicide letter to Stella? Weakest link.
DeleteNigerians and church. Five and six.
ReplyDeleteSynagogue again? Na wa oh
ReplyDeleteQueen&Boss hope you are fine? How true is this report?
ReplyDeleteI am fine thanks!...
DeleteNaaa waaaah oooo
ReplyDeleteGod save His Children
God have mercy
ReplyDeleteThe deaths these days is becoming too much
Please heal our land Lord
Whistling and wondering. Why didn't he raise the dead? Strolls by 😯😯
ReplyDeleteThank you
DeleteHe's a business man.
DeleteHas your own pastor ever raised the dead?...
DeleteAnd you broke ass mayor,TB Joshua is not the cause of your Maga not paying you!...
Your mates are doing well in yahoo yahoo business but that curse following you won't allow you to excel!...
Go and see him so he can pray for your breakthrough!...
Not his fault oooo
ReplyDeleteGod have mercy.
Rip
Hmmmm
ReplyDeleteA nation is totally destroyed if it has more religious center than factories.
ReplyDeleteTypical case study is Nigeria and China; China is growing industrially but Nigeria you have a zillion improverished people wailing to the sky.
Even the bible says I will bless the works of your hands not the thoughts of your mind Cus if it's by the thoughts we will all be rich.
Thank you. Nigerians and sentiments. Everything isnt spiritual biko. Everyone wants miracles nobody wants to work again. Pastors getting richer everyday. It is well.
DeleteGod rest their soul
ReplyDeleteNa wa o...as long as people will put their trust in their fellow human being and don't even have faith in God, things like this won't stop
ReplyDeleteMay God have mercy on stupid and senseless people that forget God as their maker and put all their faith and trust in a mere mortal. Stamped as if they want to see God?
ReplyDeleteD prophet is just too diabolical,he need to contact his spiritual helpers.
ReplyDeleteyour own pastor and priest should contact their spiritual helpers to help you first before TB Joshua!...
DeleteTB Joshua has used Linda's brain for sacrifice.
ReplyDeleteBetter go and collect your brain back and be loose from the bondage he has put you and the others members in.
What's your business?...
DeleteIs it your brainwash?...
Queen I though you hate all yaraba people as you call them. Or TB Joshua is from Enugu ?
ReplyDeleteThat man has brain wash all of nna.
So your own pastor has not brainwashed you abi?...
DeleteYes he is a yaraba and I like him...
Why must people die evry year in synagogue?every time we will hear one story or the other,and please what crowd are they talking about?is the crowd there anything compared to the crowd in deeperlife,redeem,mountain of fire and winners when ever they have programmes?so please all those saying the crowd was much and there was stampede should stfu!!!stampede my foot!you think people don't rush to see the pastors of the churches i mentioned above whenever they are passing by?blind followers saying crap,TB joshua should continue ooo.
ReplyDeleteShut up Esther!,,.
DeleteHave you been to SCOAN before to know the kind of crowd that troop in and out of there?...
People all over the world came for this Programme so what are you saying?,,,
Most SCOAN members are not Nigerians cos you people don't know what you have in TB Joshua!...
No you should shut the fuck up,retard!people from all over the world came for the programme and so fucking what?The crowd there is it up to 1/3of the crowd in deeper life,mountain of fire,redeem or winners?you are saying crap.Tuberculosis joshua has used your brain to eat amala thats why you are defending him with your life,be deceiving your self"people from all over the world came" my foot and God forbid i don't want to know what people have and not me in tuberculosis joshua
DeleteNa waa for all these cussing.
ReplyDeleteShebi na dis mouth all cussers use worship God yesterday.
Every man faith go heal am as dtz wat Christ says wen he healed pple..woman of blood ish for example.
For this case..tis a pity they don't believe in praying to God and striving for holy life in deep faith for their healing that they have to stampede.
May their souls rest in peace.