On 12 September 2014, a guesthouse located within the Synagogue Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) premises around the Ikotun-Egbe area of Lagos State collapsed completely to the ground.
[4] Nigerian emergency services refused to release the nationalities of the victims, but other countries have provided some details about those who died.
Joshua offering bribes to journalists in return for reporting the incident in a way that favorably portrayed the church.
[7] The senior pastor of the church, T. B. Joshua has linked the tragedy to a strange aircraft "hovering" above the building shortly before it fell.
[10] Three government agencies, the Nigeria Building And Road Research Institute (NBBRI), the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) and the Building Collapse Prevention Guild (BCPG), examined the site and found the following inadequacies: Joshua failed to appear at a November 2015 hearing[12] and SCOAN's lawyers have filed multiple applications to stay the proceedings.