{"id":163033,"date":"2025-05-18T23:37:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T22:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/nigerian-pastor-timothy-omotoso-set-to-be-deported-from-south-africa"},"modified":"2025-05-19T00:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T23:46:28","slug":"nigerian-pastor-timothy-omotoso-set-to-be-deported-from-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-pastor-timothy-omotoso-set-to-be-deported-from-south-africa","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian pastor, Timothy Omotoso, set to be deported from South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The embattled Nigerian televangelist, Timothy Omotoso, is set to be deported from South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after he voluntarily chose to leave the country following his re-arrest a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>According to South Africa Broadcasting Cooperation, SABC, and Newsroom Afrika television, the cleric will be leaving the country today, Sunday, May 18, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Images broadcast by the stations captured Omotoso chatting with an immigration official at the airport.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s yet to be ascertained what time his fight would depart, as he was to leave from Johannesburg\u2019s OR Tambo Airport.<\/p>\n<p>In April, the 66-year-old pastor was acquitted of 32 charges of rape, sexual exploitation and human trafficking filed against him, after he had spend eight years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks after he was acquitted, the cleric was rearrested by immigration authorities in East London on May 10, 2025.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The embattled Nigerian televangelist, Timothy Omotoso, is set to be deported from South Africa. This comes after he voluntarily chose to leave the country following his re-arrest a week ago. According to South Africa Broadcasting Cooperation, SABC, and Newsroom Afrika television, the cleric will be leaving the country today, Sunday, May 18, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":163032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,2660],"tags":[254,556,17323],"class_list":["post-163033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-to-homepage","tag-nigeria","tag-south-africa","tag-timothy-omotoso"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigerian pastor, Timothy Omotoso, set to be deported from South Africa - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The embattled Nigerian televangelist, Timothy Omotoso, is set to be deported from South Africa. 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