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'Miracle cures'

There has been a boom in the number of new Pentecostal churches in Nigeria in recent years.

Some attract thousands of worshippers - many attracted by claims of "miracle cures" for a variety of ailments.

"Prophet" TB Joshua started the Synagogue Church of all Nations in Lagos in the 1990s. The 42-year-old prefers not to talk about what he used to do.

Asked why he is called a prophet, he says: "They call me many names."

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