Nigeria, June 7 -- If there is any major economic lesson learnt by businesses operating on the Ikotun-Egbe axis of Lagos during the lockdown, it is the realization that the economy of that area is essentially built around T. B Joshua's Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN).

Well, perhaps in addition to whatever is left of other small businesses in the area. It wasn't as though they didn't know this before the pandemic, to be sure, but the lockdown and its ripple effect made the point clearer.

So when news filtered in yesterday that T.B Joshua passed on, my mind raced through a zillion thoughts, one of which is the possible effect of his demise on the socio-economic make-up of Ikotun and environs.

When we arrived at our Igando residen...