Nigeria’s most prominent Christian televangelist – and one of its most controversial – physically and sexually abused at least a dozen of his top disciples who had joined his ministry in Lagos from multiple countries and continents, according to a two-year investigation by BBC Africa Eye, in partnership with openDemocracy.
This pattern of historic sexual abuse by Temitope Balogun Joshua – or TB Joshua as he is commonly known to tens of thousands of Pentecostal Christians – is among the troubling revelations into the man who founded and led the Lagos-based Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) until his death in 2021.
Other allegations made by former senior members of the church include:
