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    <title>Qualla: Synagogue Church Building Collapse</title>
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      <title>Synagogue Church Building Collapse: Introduction</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The beams were too small. The columns were too slender. The reinforcement bars were the wrong gauge, anchored poorly, and spaced too far apart. When the six-story guesthouse at the Synagogue Church of All Nations collapsed on September 12, 2014, in the Ikotun-Egbe area of Lagos, the engineering failures were so numerous that investigators would later catalog them like a textbook of what not to build. At least 115 people died, 84 of them South African nationals who had traveled to Lagos as pilgrims visiting one of Nigeria's most prominent megachurches.]]></description>
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      <title>Synagogue Church Building Collapse: A Church That Drew the World</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Synagogue Church of All Nations, led by the televangelist T. B. Joshua, attracted followers from across Africa and beyond. Joshua was one of Nigeria's most influential pastors, commanding a global audience through satellite broadcasts and YouTube channels. His church complex ...]]></description>
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      <title>Synagogue Church Building Collapse: Twelve Seconds on a Friday Afternoon</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The building came down on a Friday. Eyewitness accounts and structural analysis suggested the collapse was rapid, the kind of progressive failure where one inadequate element triggers the next. Three government agencies examined the wreckage and found a catalog of deficiencies: b...]]></description>
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      <title>Synagogue Church Building Collapse: Deflection and Delay</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In the immediate aftermath, T. B. Joshua pointed to a "strange aircraft" he claimed had been hovering above the building before the collapse. A video was circulated on YouTube purporting to show the plane. The coroner's report found the cause to be unequivocally structural failur...]]></description>
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      <title>Synagogue Church Building Collapse: Justice Unfinished</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The trial ground forward through years of procedural delays, adjournments, and legal maneuvering. Radio host Freeze drew public attention to the disparity in accountability: when a building at Lekki Gardens collapsed, its managing director Richard Nyong was arrested and jailed. J...]]></description>
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