Pastor Adeboye keeps trending on social media and reactions range from sarcastic to cautious.
But so far only a few prominent women activists have challenged Enoch Adeboye on his views about the role of women in a marriage.
Many of the vocal women activists seem so far to have looked the other way.
And prominent female blogger Toke Makinwa said the pastor was right in asking women not to marry jobless men, adding:
Pastor Adeboye did not say anything bad, if anything I would hope the women take the advice on men seriously.”
Reactions to Pastor Adeboye’s marriage tips, or the lack of them, show how powerful he is in Nigeria.
Widely called “Daddy”, he runs the Redeemed Christian Church of God, seen as the biggest church in Nigeria.
His church owns a huge prayer ground on the outskirts of the capital, Abuja, and the main city, Lagos.
It is run in a business style. The church also owns a university.
In May 2011, Forbes magazine reported that in March 2009 Pastor Adeboye spent $30m (£22.5m) on a Gulfstream jet.
Pastor Adeboye is also politically powerful.
In presidential election campaigns, some candidates have made it their duty to visit his prayer sessions and to be seen praying and shaking hands with him. The majority of his followers are middle-class urbanised Nigerians.
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