A senior pastor and convener of Abuja Ministers Prayer Outreach(AMPO), Pastor Prize Aluko, has declared that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will lose the 2023 presidency if it fails to adopt former President Goodluck Jonathan as its consensus candidate. Read more…
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has said it has forgiven Abubakar Suleiman, chief executive officer (CEO) of Sterling Bank, over the bank’s blasphemous Easter message. In a statement made available to LEADERSHIP on Saturday in Abuja signed by the Read more…
Despite their challenges, the 16 West African countries would overcome their current travails, Catholic bishops from the sub-region said on Saturday. They insisted that political leaders must stop draconian policies and practices which permit the exploitation of the masses. The Read more…
Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka arrived in Cotonou, Benin Republic, on Sunday to meet the Yoruba nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo (popularly known as Sunday Igboho). Mr Soyinka, a professor of Comparative Literature, crossed the Seme border around noon into Cotonou. A Read more…
Traditional worshippers have protested against open display of the corpse of the 45th Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III, on Saturday during the Muslim prayer session.They contended that such open display was against the tenets of traditional respect Read more…
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Taraba State, on Saturday, expressed dismay over the explosion that rocked Jalingo, the Taraba State capital on Friday. The CAN chairperson, Isaiah Jirapye, in a statement, said the explosion in Jalingo came four days after Read more…
The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Mathew Kukah, on Sunday said President Buhari has destroyed every aspect of life in Nigeria but has allowed corruption to thrive and grow. “With everything literally broken down, our country has become one big emergency Read more…
In our series of letters from African journalists, to mark eight years since the Chibok school abductions, Nigerian journalist and novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani speaks to a rescued girl who has been treated very differently to her former classmates who Read more…
The CMD NAUTH, Dr. Ugboaja, has called upon all Christians to remember that the essence of the pain and sacrifice that Jesus Christ went through for humanity was an act of love. He called on all the men and women Read more…
Preacher and President of the Uma Ukpai Evangelistic Association Incorporated, Rev. Uma Ukpai, on Saturday, said Osinachi Nwachukwu sang for him three times but did not open up on her predicament and domestic violence which led to her death. Ukpai Read more…
Pope Francis said in an interview aired on Good Friday that the world has “chosen the path of Cain.” In the interview with “A Sua immagine” (“In His image”), on Italy’s Rai 1 channel, the Pope pointed to wars currently raging around Read more…
“Admittedly — it had not been Easter Sunday, but only Holy Saturday. But the longer I think about it, the more it seems to me to be in keeping with the essence of our human life.” Catholics around the world Read more…