Christ Embassy HQ Fire: What we know so far

On Sunday, June 23, 2024, the general headquarters of the Christ Embassy Church, along the Kudirat Abiola Way, Ikeja in Lagos State, was nearly completely reduced to ashes as a raging fire gutted the building, leaving properties worth several millions of naira destroyed.

The news of the fire outbreak in the church, led and founded by popular televangelist Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, has swept through online platforms, with users giving different versions of what they believe happened.

Here is what GhanaWeb has gathered on the inferno so far:

1. According to the Vanguard, the fire started in the early hours of Sunday, June 23, 2024, around 8 am.

2. No lives lost so far. According to a report by the Vanguard, the Director of the Lagos Fire and Rescue Service said there were no lives lost.

3. According to the Director of the Lagos Fire and Rescue Service, the fire was extinguished by 10 am.

4. The leadership of the church say they will build a much better and bigger edifice.

What Pastor Chris said after the fire outbreak

Reacting to the fire outbreak, Pastor Chris mentioned that he suspected the church building might collapse years ago after a bombing at Ikeja Cantonment shook it.

However, it did not happen, but now that the church has been gutted by fire, Pastor Chris promised to rebuild a bigger and better one.

“Nothing happens in the life of a child of God by accident. During the 2001 Ikeja cantonment bombing incident, the building vibrated so much, and we thought it was going to collapse. I thought to myself that if it collapsed, I was going to build a bigger, better one. In the end, 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.

“Now that this has happened, we will build a bigger, better, and more glorious one, and the devil will lick his wounds,” he said in a report on Vanguardngr.com

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