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The Anglican Bishop of Minna Diocese Rev. Daniel Yisa, on Sunday, said that there was no agreement on appointments and urged Nigerians to allow President Muhammadu Buhari to choose people that could move the country forward.

The Primate of the Anglican Church of Nigeria, Arch-Bishop Nicholas Okoh, has called for the adoption of a part-time legislature as a measure to reduce the cost of governance in Nigeria. This according to him will pave way for more developmental projects in Nigeria. Speaking in Abuja on Wednesday, the clergyman lamented the alleged huge waste incurred in carrying out government activities. Arch-Bishop Okoh recommended the part-time sitting for assembly members and also a slash in the remunerations of those in government. The Primate maintained that “to reduce the cost of governance requires more than reducing salaries. “I think it requires a structural adjustment; that is to say, should the people in parliament be there on permanent basis or on part time basis. If they are there on part time basis, they earn allowances. “But as it is now, they are employed in the business of law making”.

The primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), the Most Rev’d Nicholas Okoh, has said that the continued stay of the Chibok girls in captivity has harmed the country. He said, “The story of the Chibok girls is a bad story, bad story in the sense that the parents are not happy, the government is not happy and the public is baffled. From what the president is saying, you can sense that he is not happy about the inability of government to bring the girls back. But here we are, some have said that the Chibok girls have been married off, some said they have been distributed to various places, that they are not together as a group, or they have been used as suicide bombers. We don’t know exactly. It complicates the situation. We are hoping that the military will be able to do more. All those areas that they have captured and rescued people, where are the Chibok girls? We have not really solved the problem. We have not reached them”.

NAIROBI, Kenya While calling for global carbon emissions cuts, Kenya’s National Council of Churches has launched a multifaith campaign to lobby governments, industries and multilateral agencies to agree on a binding treaty at the United Nations climate change talks in Paris later this year. A new protocol is expected to be adopted at the meeting, known as COP21, to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which is due to expire. That protocol required that state signers reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the premise that global warming exists and human-made carbon dioxide emissions have caused it. A pan–African climate justice  campaign , under the slogan “We Have Faith -- Act Now for Climate Justicem,” seeks to mobilize African religious communities on climate justice ahead of the December conference. It has launched a 1 million signature petition to push for a new treaty. “As religious leaders, our commitment to the healt...

•It’s time for the National Peace Committee to go As its name may suggest, the National Peace Committee for the 2015 General Elections has probably outlived its usefulness. The elections have been won and lost across the country. So why is the group still going about with a sense of relevance and giving the impression that it is busy making efforts to maintain peace in the polity? In particular, the critical March 28 presidential election that produced President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is now history. Considering that the committee was constituted in response to palpable public fears about a possible eruption of disorder arising from the presidential election, the concrete reality of a Buhari presidency should imply closure for its business.

The spiritual head of the Diocese of Lagos Mainland, Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), the Most. Rev. Professor Adebayo Dada Akinde is a good example of the truism that God invariably has His way in the affairs of men. What God ordains for each of his children ultimately supersedes all human calculations and disposition. In time, each man and woman whom God created for a specific role must succumb to that, willy-nilly. God rules in the affairs of men and those who understand this truism are the happier for it. Bishop Akinde evidently is. For a man who had distinguished himself so eminently in academics, not many had imagined for him a full time commitment to the service of God. If anyone had told him some 35 years ago that he would some day be the pioneer bishop of the Diocese of Lagos Mainland, he would probably have dismissed it as an empty joke. Having pioneered many projects in the academia, he thought he had had enough of pioneering work. Born in Kaduna, northwest of N...

THE Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) is blessed with a humble, dedicated, loyal and resourceful Registrar in the person of Barrister Abraham Yisa. In his discharge of duty overtime, he has not been found wanting. No wonder at the last General Synod of Church of Nigeria held at the Cathedral of Good Shepherd, Enugu last year September, he was overwhelmingly re-elected. This was both a testament and a show of solidarity of good works to one who is really performing.  Acknowledging his re-election later and re-affirming his commitment to work with him, the Primate of All Nigeria, Most Rev. Nicholas D. Okoh observed that: ‘ Abraham Yisa has been a selfless law officer of the Church, who commits not only himself but also his time, talents and resources into his job, as a way of serving his God.’ He said such an uncommon services are legendary and should be emulated by all Church law officers in all our Dioceses within the Communion. Let it be on record that amon...

THE third session of the 11th Synod of the Anglican Diocese of Owo in Ondo State held from Wednesday, July 29 to Sunday, August 2, 2015. The Synod was held at Saint Patrick’s Anglican Church, Ijebu-Owo. It was presided over by the Bishop of the Diocese, Rt. Rev. James Adedayo Oladunjoye. The guest preacher at the Synod was the Most Rev. Dr Emmanuel Chukwuma of the Diocese of Enugu, while Barrister and Mrs. Dipo Okpeseyi (SAN), in conjunction with their local Church, Saint Patrick’s and the Vicar in charge of the Church, Ven. Komolafe, hosted the Synod. It should be noted that Synod is an annual event in which Bishops give a Charge to members of their flock to guide them all through the year before another Synod. The Anglican Diocese of Owo had its Synod theme as: ‘Stewardship and Christian Giving.’ And the text was taken from I Cor. 4v2: ‘‘Now a person who is put in charge as a manager must be faithful,’ I Cor. 4v2. While expounding on the Synod theme later, Bishop...

Why we should know and why we should care. This was written in reference to a video released on July 14th, 2015 showing Planned Parenthood’s Senior Director of Medical Services, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, describing how Planned Parenthood sells the body parts of aborted unborn children and admitting she uses partial-birth abortions to supply intact body parts.  Watch the video HERE. 1) I know that an abortion doctor is in the news this week.  What is going on? The breaking news features a video of Dr. Nucatola discussing the ins and outs of procuring organs of aborted babies for research.  It’s a bigger story than just a local doctor.  Dr. Nucatola is the Senior Director of Medical Research for all of Planned Parenthood. Social media lit up as people expressed outrage that aborted baby body parts were being harvested. Arguments online broke out about whether the organs were being donated or illegally sold. News articles, media reports, ...

(VATICAN CITY) Pope Francis embraced 10 young self-identified Christian refugees from Nigeria during his general audience Wednesday. The refugees, who crossed the desert in Africa and then supposedly survived six months of forced labour in Libya before reaching the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, have been living for the past four months in a seminary in Fiesole.

Episcopal Bishop William Love's opposition to same-sex marriage in defiance of the recent 78th general convention of the Episcopal Church that affirmed marriage equality has roiled the Albany diocese and caused parishioners to quit the Cathedral of All Saints in protest. In a July 18 pastoral letter in response to last month's convention and June's historic Supreme Court ruling guaranteeing nationwide rights for same-sex marriage, Love cited a Book of Common Prayer definition of marriage as a "solemn and public covenant between a man and a woman."

Six Anglican Bishops have accused politicians from western Kenya of engaging in confrontational politics in funerals at the expense of development. The Bishops from the Dioceses of Maseno North, Nambale, Katakwa, Butere, Mumias and Bungoma said it was wrong for politicians to use funerals to settle scores instead of addressing the region’s development needs. Led by Maseno North Bishop Simeon Oketch, the clerics said they planned to convene meetings in the four counties of Kakamega, Vihiga, Bungoma and Busia to discuss with leaders on how to work together and promote peace among communities. “We want to use the meetings to bring the leaders together and explain why they need to work together,” said Bishop Oketch. In a statement titled “Role of the Church in Politics,” Bishop Oketch warned that church officials would not allow leaders who promoted confrontational politics to incite mourners in funerals. The clerics spoke yesterday after attending a five day...

To the Faithful of the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans and friends from Archbishop Eliud Wabukala, Primate of Kenya and Chairman of the GAFCON Primates’ Council ‘When they became fully awake they saw his glory.’ Luke 9: 32 My dear brothers and sisters, Grace and peace to you in the name of our only Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. I am writing to you on the day when the Church has traditionally celebrated the Transfiguration. The veil that covered Jesus’ glory in his earthly ministry is briefly drawn aside before he begins his journey to Jerusalem and death upon the cross. While Jesus prayed, Peter, James and John slept, but  we must not judge them harshly. Climbing mountains is hard work! In fact, they were so deeply asleep that the reality being revealed was not immediately clear to them, yet the impact was lasting.  Years later, Peter recalls this moment on the mountain as he writes to spiritually sleepy Christians who are in danger of forg...

ABUJA- Primate, Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh has admonished Christians to boast not of their achievements on earth, but acknowledge God in all their ways, as pride goes before destruction. Okoh, who was speaking during a church service to celebrate Venerable Folusho Taiwo at 60 and 30th wedding anniversary at the Church of Holy Cross Anglican Communion, Wuye, Abuja, said man achieves nothing without God. According to him, it is not by power nor wisdom but by the spirit of God that gives life, as wisdom of man is foolishness before God. In an interview with newsmen, the celebrant, Ven. Taiwo, who is also the vicar of the Church of Holy Cross Anglican Communion, urged youths to imbibe the spirit of hardwork, saying God is taking Nigeria to her desired place among the comity of nations. He said with the grace of God on Nigeria to make her the dream of our founding fathers, her youth must draw closer to God and acknowledge Him, whi...

The Archbishop of Canterbury and leader of the Church of England, Justin Welby has apologised for the church’s mistreatment of Africa’s first bishop, Samuel Ajayi Crowther. Archbishop Welby preaching at a ‘thanksgiving and repentance’ service marking the 150th anniversary of Bishop Crowther’s ordination, said: “This is a service of thanksgiving and repentance. Thanksgiving for the extraordinary life, which we commemorate [and] repentance, shame and sorrow for Anglicans who are reminded of the sin of many of their ancestors.” “We in the Church of England need to say sorry that someone was properly and rightly consecrated Bishop and then betrayed and let down and undermined. It was wrong.” Regarded as the father of Anglicanism in Nigeria, Bishop Crowther, who was born as Ajayi in western Nigeria in 1807, is credited with bringing many Nigerians to Christ. So great was his impact that he was ordained the first African Anglican bishop in 1864, despite great protest.