Pastor T.B Joshua Named 2015 ‘Yoruba Man Of The Year’ 2015

The ‘Egbe Omo Oodua Parapo’, a coalition of 35 Pan-Yoruba groups drawn from across the world, Friday, named controversial Nigerian Pastor T.B. Joshua,

founder of The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations, SCOAN, as the 2015 ‘Yoruba Man Of The Year’.

Dr. Akinwale Adewunmi, the Chairman of the award committee, in a statement

following the group’s annual conference in the US, said, “We give this award to

Pastor Joshua out of over 500 nominees screened by the Planning Committee of

the Association. Adewunmi said the award was presented based on “the honour and admiration the pastor had brought to the Yoruba nation especially through his diverse philanthropic activities.

“We are proud that you are a Yoruba man with a global image in the annals of

charity. Your charitable projects span 45 countries and aid ‘millions’ on a yearly

basis, irrespective of their religion or ethnicity.

“Pastor Joshua started as a poor boy,” the statement added, acknowledging the

cleric’s uncanny rise to prominence from a poverty-stricken home in Ondo State,

Nigeria. He had no access to education neither did he enjoy any outstanding

benefit from his society, yet he built himself. He educated himself and today

stands out like a Professor in the greater university of life and living.

“Across the world, many ask travellers from Nigeria: ‘Oh, you are From Pastor

T.B. Joshua’s country?

“We are proud that this generation has produced a Yoruba man, a Nigerian and

an African that stands this tall,” the statement concluded.

-Daily Post