Fire has broken out at the headquarters of one of Nigeria’s most prominent churches, the Christ Embassy Church, in the Oregun area of Ikeja, Lagos State.
The ministry is formally known as LoveWorld Inc.
The cause of the fire and the casualties are not immediately known, but apparently, the inferno may have occurred as congregants began to gather for their usual Sunday worship.
VIDEO: Fire Guts Christ Embassy Headquarters In Lagos
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The headquarters of the Christ Embassy Church, located in the Oregun area of Ikeja, Lagos State, reportedly caught fire on Sunday morning.
This was revealed in multiple videos from the scene shared on https://t.co/ozofxF7xK0… pic.twitter.com/okWguJqUqP
Officials of Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service are said to have reached the scene and battling to douse the fire completely.
However, addressing church members in a nearby branch of the church were worshippers were redirected to for the Sunday worship, the head of the church and President of LoveWorld Inc., Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, consoled the members and said that nothing happens without God’s knowledge.
“Nothing happens in the life of a child of God by accident. During the 2001 Ikeja cantonment bombing incident, the building vibrated so much, that we thought it was going to collapse. I thought to myself that if it collapsed, I was going to build a bigger, better one. At the end of the day, it didn’t collapse, and we called the engineers to see if there was any need to bring it down and rebuild, but it was still okay“.
He promised that “Now that this has happened, we will build a bigger, more beautiful one. Let the devil lick his wound.”
So far, the church authorities have not provided any information regarding the extent of damage or whether there was any cases of injury recorded.
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