In a Facebook post titled ‘The Prophets, the Seers, and the Tug-of-War for the Prophetic Throne’, Bishop Dr Gideon Titi-Ofei has decried how the prophets have turned their service into a sport for supremacy.  

He suggested even heaven was confused the drama of competing prophets.

He questioned the veracity of today’s wanton prophets, framing them as charlatans who were operating in the name of the Christian God while being rebranded fetish priests utilising modern technology.

“Sometimes I look at Ghana’s prophetic space and I wonder, did heaven suddenly install a scoreboard?” he asked.

“One prophet declares the winning football team before kickoff, another predicts which politician will win the elections, and somewhere in the mix, someone else announces which celebrity will… well, “relocate to eternity.” And when any of these things happen, the conversation isn’t about the event itself—it’s about who said it first. Heaven must be scratching its head,” the founder and presiding bishop of Pleasant Place Church noted.

“I imagine the angel Gabriel scrolling through a heavenly WhatsApp group:

“Guys, Prophet A says he called the score before halftime. Prophet B says he did it in the morning. Prophet C has a video to prove it. Should we fact-check?”,” he illustrated.

“And sometimes it feels like we are back in the days of the African traditional priest, only the names have changed,” Bishop Titi-Ofei lamented.

“Back then, the priest would “see into the evil spiritual” and tell the mortals what the gods were saying. Today, the set has better lighting, the priest wears Italian suits, and the shrine has been upgraded to a studio with HD cameras and live streaming.”

“Or maybe the real prophetic gift today is not just seeing, but the headlines,” he concluded, poignantly.

The University of Gold Coast Chancellor's post follows the tragic death of eight occupants of a Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) Z9 helicopter which crashed and burned on August 6, 2025, while flying from Accra to Obuasi. On board, and part of the dead, were two ministers: Dr Edward Omane Boamah (Defence), and Dr Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed (Environment, Science & Technology). 

When the news broke, videos of church leaders who appeared to foretell the incident went viral. In one video, a prophet cautioned Dr Omane Boamah to reach out to him. In another, a GAF officer appeared to receive a warning in advance concerning the incident. A third video in which the date of recording was mentioned as July 13, 2025, underlined an aviation accident. 

In response, the government of Ghana, via the Elvis Afriyie Ankrah-led Office of the Presidential Envoy for Interfaith and Ecumenical Relations, has unveiled a platform to receive messages from individuals who speak in the name of God concerning future events with national consequences.