Lagos Churches

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  Nigerian Man Burnt To Death After Pastor Mistakes Petrol For Water

  A man was burnt to death on Thursday after a pastor mistook petrol for water during a healing service in Lagos, the emergency services said.

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  Africa's Biggest City Shuts Churches, Mosques To Fight Noise Pollution

  Africa's largest city is closing dozens of mosques, churches and nightclubs in a bid to reduce noise for its 20 million residents long used to lusty hymn-singing, honking horns and boom boxes that rattle the foundations of homes.

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  Nigeria's Solution To Noise Complaints? Shut Down Some Churches And Mosques.

  The Nigerian city of Lagos is Africa's largest: The metropolitan area sprawls in every direction, and is thought to house more than 20 million people. Traffic jams can last for entire days, and with the megacity emerging as an epicenter of youth culture, the lines for the clubs can seem just as long.

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  Nigeria Silent on Fatal Church Building Collapse Probe

  Nigerian officials were tight-lipped on Tuesday about the scope of a probe into a fatal church building collapse in Lagos that killed 115, as anger mounted against the popular preacher in charge.

• Number of Deaths in Nigerian Church Collapse Surges to 115

  The death toll from the Nigerian church collapse has now climbed to 115 people, with 84 of them South Africans, a South African minister said Monday, citing sources in Lagos.

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  Nigerian Leader Visits Collapsed Building as Death Toll Hits 86

  Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday visited the collapsed guesthouse at a mega-church in Lagos, promising to investigate the cause of the tragedy as the death toll hit 86, rescuers said on Saturday.

• Lagos Building Collapse Survivor Recounts Ordeal

  A Nigerian man on Friday claimed that he spent over 24 hours under the rubble of a Lagos church building, blaming "Satan" rather than structural failure for the collapse that killed at least 84 people.

• 84 South Africans Killed in Nigeria Church Collapse: Official

  The number of South Africans known to have died in the collapse of a multi-storey megachurch in Lagos last week has risen to 84, Pretoria's high commissioner to Nigeria said on Friday.

• South Africa Says Unknown Number of Its Citizens Unaccounted For After Nigeria Church Collapse

  Around 300 South Africans were visiting a Pentetcostal church in Nigeria last week where a wing collapsed killing more than 60 people and an unknown number were still unaccounted for, the government said.

• Nigeria Church Building Collapse Kills at Least 17

  At least 17 people were killed when a guest house under construction at the Lagos headquarters of one of Nigeria's best-known Christian evangelical pastors collapsed, rescue officials said on Saturday.

• Car bomb near Nigeria church kills 38

  A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives Sunday morning on a busy road after apparently turning away from attacking Nigerian churches holding Easter services, killing at least 38 people in a massive blast that rattled a city long at the center of religious, ethnic and political violence in the nation. The blast struck Kaduna, the capital of K...