NIGERIA YET TO BECOME A NATION, SAYS ANGLICAN CHURCH

Jesusegun Alagbe

Fifty-eight years after it gained independence from Britain, Nigeria has yet to become a nation, according to the Ibadan Diocese of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion).

At its 22nd synod held at St. David’s Anglican Church, Ijokodo, Ibadan, Oyo State, the Bishop of the Ibadan Anglican Diocese, the Most Revd. Joseph Akinfenwa, noted in a communiqué that at a crossroads of the country, “we resort to and defend our sectarian interests, no wonder our national patrimony is so parlous and derelict.

“There is tension everywhere because of too many divergent opinions to issues as we don’t want the same thing; what a section wants is inimical to the interest of another section and nobody is ready to give ground for the other.”