Church Verification Report
What we checked
- Not a duplicate: no similarly named church is listed with us
- The name reads as a real congregation
- Contact email reviewed (gmail.com, common for small churches)
- No website or social page was provided
- Independent web search performed: see the findings on the right
What we found
We searched for the church name with its city and with Nigeria, and we found that Christ Gospel Apostolic Church, Lagos Area and Overseas operates an official website at cgaclagosarea.org, which describes it as a Spirit-filled, Apostolic-Pentecostal denomination rooted in the indigenous African Christian tradition and traces its founding to a 1962 call to Pastor (now Apostle) Paul Oladejo Okedoyin, who planted the first CGAC assembly in Mushin, Lagos, with registration under that name with the Corporate Affairs Commission in 1963. An active Facebook page for a CGAC assembly in Lagos lists the same website and a Nigerian phone number (Facebook, CGAC Mount of Victory), and a business directory carries a matching entry (ZoomInfo). We found no listing, map entry or page for a branch in Ojo or Ijanikin specifically, and no mention of the contact email given. We found no scam reports, fraud warnings or complaints about this church.
Our conclusion: An independent search found the official website of Christ Gospel Apostolic Church, Lagos Area and Overseas at cgaclagosarea.org, which describes a Spirit-filled Apostolic-Pentecostal denomination founded in Lagos in 1962 and registered in 1963, with a supporting Facebook page for a Lagos assembly listing the same website. This matches the submitted church name and the Lagos location, and no complaints or warnings were found. The particular Ojo (
No further action is needed. This report is refreshed whenever the church is reviewed again.