There was the reports that Pastor Chris Oyakhilome of the Christ Embassy Church Nigeria, charged N1000 gate fee to worshippers who attended its New Years’ Eve church services. Read here.

According to the church, the gate fee was imposed to limit the huge number of worshippers which it predicted will descend on its 25,000 capacity venue. Crowd control and management techniques have no doubt improved significantly – Gone are the days when security simply turned away folks when a venue reaches its capacity. The latest in crowd management techniques requires that a prohibitive fee be charged to reduce the size of a crowd. On this occasion the criteria deemed most appropriate by this church was to eliminate those who perhaps hadn’t prayed hard enough to afford the N1000 needed to go through the gates of “heaven”.

A quick calculation reveals that: 25000 (capacity venue) x N1000 = N25,000000. N25,000000 is what the church must have taken in that night. We do serve a rich God after all.