UK’s Channel 4 Beams Focus On Nigeria’s Rich Pastors

A United Kingdom television station, Channel 4, whose reporter and director travelled to Lagos for a documentary on Nigeria’s millionaire preachers, will air on Friday, 28 October, the outcome of their investigation, P.M.NEWS has learnt.

In the documentary, to show on Channel 4 at 7.30 p.m., reporter Seyi Rhodes and director Matt Haan travel to Lagos, southwest Nigeria, to reveal the eccentric world of Nigeria’s millionaire pastors.

Channel 4 is a popular television station in England and one of the five channels that all British people get for free.

The TV station shows on Fridays a series of foreign affairs programmes, known as Unreported World, from dozens of countries around the world.

The synopses of the fascinating documentary, made available to P.M.NEWS, show how Nigerian pastors, by promoting to their members the dream of escaping poverty, have turned their churches into corporations.

The Unreported World team visits some of the biggest Pentecostal churches in Lagos, including Oyakhilome’s Christ Embassy, Okotie’s Household of God and Fireman’s Perfect Christianity Ministry.

The team spends some time in Fireman’s church, an up and coming preacher who is attempting to break into the big league of prosperity preachers. The team finds 2000 people at an event billed as the Burial of Satan.

After a rock star entrance, Dr Fireman, who believes Jesus Christ was a rich man with an accountant, begins his service by exorcising the demons in his congregation.

In the end, so much money is thrown at him that it is collected in waste baskets and the preacher leaves in his yellow Hummer 4×4.

The team also speaks with P.M.NEWS correspondent Simon Ateba, who has written extensively on the activities of Nigerian churches.

The documentary likely to be watched by millions of Nigerian in England will be online next week for the world to see, it was learnt.

—Simon Ateba