Temitope Balogun Joshua (born June 12, 1963), commonly referred to as T. B. Joshua, is a Nigerian prophet and televangelist. He is the leader and founder of The Synagogue, Church of All Nations (SCOAN), a religious organisation that runs the Emmanuel TV television station from Lagos, Nigeria.

He has been awarded various accolades, notably receiving the Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR) by the Nigerian government in 2008 and being voted the Yoruba man of the decade by Pan-Yoruba media outlet Irohin-Odua. He was recognised as one of Africa's 50 most influential people by Pan-African magazines The Africa Report and New African Magazine and listed among the world's most famous people by the website thefamouspeople.com. He was recently ranked among the world's most famous prophets in history by American website Ranker.

Joshua is known for his popularity across Africa and his online presence, with 2,000,000 fans on Facebook and the most subscribed Christian ministry channel on YouTube which has amassed more than 120 million views.

As of 2011, according to Forbes, Joshua was Nigeria’s third-richest pastor, although the claim was immediately denied in a statement by the church. (Source: wikipedia)

Many lives have been blessed by this illustrious Nigerian, yet many people cast aspersions on him.

He’s a generous man. Many foreigners seek him in spite of his limited education and fluency in English. They seek his God, and bring lots of foreign exchange to Nigeria; yet we cast aspersions on him.

I don’t care whether he uses God’s power or other means. What I know is that his grass to grace story is inspiring. What I know is that those who follow him aren’t foolish: They’ve their reasons for following him.

T. B. Joshua is a good example that a good thing can come from Nazareth. Nigeria, which is known for corruption, poverty, yahoo boys, terrorism, poor infrastructure, poor education, etc., has produced an illustrious son who’s accepted by the Whites. Whenever Joshua goes abroad to minister, stadiums and halls are filled to the brim, yet we cast aspersions on him.

We hate him, but he’s an international celebrity. If you’ve someone like that in your family, you’d be happy. But you cast aspersions on him.

And we’ve our own short-comings, weaknesses and failings too.

We speak rubbish against E. A. Adeboye, David Oyedepo, Chris Oyakhilome, etc.

Why can’t Nigerians cherish and say something good about their own people?


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