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You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit – fruit that will last… (John 15.16). It has pleased God to add more mission responsibilities on the shoulders of the Primate of All Nigeria, The Most Rev’d Nicholas D. Okoh. In a meeting of The Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) Primates’ Council held in Nairobi, Kenya, from 18 to 22 April, 2016, The Most Rev’d Nicholas Okoh, was elected the new Chairman of the Council. He succeeds The Most Rev’d Eliud Wabukala, the Primate of the Anglican Church of Kenya. The leadership of GAFCON in the context of the present doctrinal and liturgical challenges in the Anglican Communion calls for fervent prayers. The election of Archbishop Okoh to lead the GAFCON Primates’ Council is an eloquent testimony of his exemplary leadership in ensuring that the Anglican Church remains faithful to Jesus Christ and the Bible in her teachings and practices. Archbishop Nicholas D. Okoh had earlier served as the Chairman,...

T he Archbishop of the Anglican Communion, Enugu Province, Most Rev. Dr. Emmanuel Chukwuma has warned of dire consequences over the inability of security agencies to avert the killings of residents of Nimbo in Uzo-Uwani council area of Enugu State by Fulani herdsmen. H e, therefore, warned that if nothing was done to checkmate the Fulani herdsmen, he would personally ask the pro-Biafra groups to declare war on them. T he mindless killing of the Nimbo residents and destruction of churches and residential houses have continued to elicit reaction across the country. Addressing journalists on Tuesday at the Bishop’s Court in Enugu, the fiery clergy, who was visibly angry over the Monday attack, said it was now clear that the federal government controlled security agencies deliberately engage in select negligence. Besides the cleric called on the Federal Government to declare state of emergency in Igboland. T he Archbishop expressed surprise that many hours after the attack, ...

A new chairman of the Primates’ Council of the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) has emerged. He is the Most Rev. Nicholas D. Okoh, Primate of the Anglican Church of All Nigeria. He takes over from the Most Revd. Eliud Wabukala, the Primate of the Church of Kenya.  He is joined in leadership by the new vice-chair, the Most Rev. Stanley Ntagali, Primate of the Anglican Church of Uganda. Archbishops Okoh and Ntagali have been deeply committed to the GAFCON movement since its founding, and are well prepared to lead.

We the Primates of the Global Anglican Future Conference met in Nairobi, Kenya from April 18-21, 2016. We give thanks for the gracious hospitality of the Anglican Church of Kenya, their Primate, the Most Rev. Eliud Wabukala, and All Saints Cathedral Diocese. As the location for GAFCON 2013, All Saints holds a special place in our history and in our hearts, and we have been encouraged to be here again. We began our meeting with prayer and a Bible study that focused on Mark 2:1-12. In this passage, the Scriptures retell the story of a man who could not walk, but was assisted by friends who helped bring him to Jesus. Unable to get their friend through the front door, they loved him enough to find another way. It is a story about the grace of God at work both in the power of fellowship and the merciful love of Jesus. We ourselves have received His forgiveness, and because He first loved us, we are passionate about doing all that we can to bring others into a saving relationship with J...

The Diocesan Bishop, Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Diocese of Egba, Ogun State, Rt. Rev. Emmanuel Adekunle, has described as shameful the attempt by the Senate to amend the Code of Conduct Tribunal Act. He said this in Abeokuta during a media briefing on the 2016 diocesan synod of the church which began on Friday with the theme, “The Beatitudes.” Bishop Adekunle said that events in the Senate in the past few weeks informed the need for Nigerians to be vigilant as it seemed that some of the lawmakers were in the legislature for their selfish interests and not to make life better for the people. He said, “It is sad that many of our lawmakers in the National Assembly, most especially the Senate, are there for selfish interests. “The recent happening in the Senate is shameful. I think Nigerians should be courageous enough to recall any of their representatives who is not representing them well — either in the Senate or in the House of Representatives.

The Diocesan Bishop, Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Diocese of Egba, Ogun State, Rt. Reverend Emmanuel Adekunle, has advised the electorate to be courageous enough to recall any lawmaker in the National Assembly who does anything contrary to their wishes and aspirations. He said this in Abeokuta at a media briefing on the 2016 diocesan synod of the church, which began on Friday with the theme, ‘The Beatitudes

The Diocesan Bishop of Lagos, Rev. Adebola Ademowo, says proliferation of churches with attendant spread of false doctrines has become a major source of concern to the Christian faith. As opposed to the virtues handed down by Christ, Ademowo lamented that homosexuality, ‘prosperity gospel,’ teenage pregnancies, high rate of divorce, ‘political correctness’ and corruption had become the order of the day among Christians. The Dean Emeritus of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, therefore, said there was a need for well-meaning individuals and people with high moral standards to rise up “and swim against these tides of unwholesomeness.”

The Federal Ministry of Education’s move to reduce the workload of primary and junior secondary pupils from 20 to a maximum of ten subjects under the nine-year basic educational curriculum was welcomed in most quarters as it would align our system with international paradigms. However, under this scheme which was developed by the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC), Christian and Islamic Religious Studies, which are separately taught, will now be merged under a compulsory subject known as Religion and National Values (RNV). Other subjects brought under the RNV include Civic Education, Social Studies, and Security Education

The House of Bishops of the Anglican Church of Tanzania has voted to rejoin the GAFCON movement and to authorize their primate to attend his week’s meeting of the GAFCON primates’ council in Nairobi. Meeting in Dodoma on 12-13 April 2016 the House of Bishops gave their blessing to the shift in policy initiated by Archbishop Jacob Chimeledya (pictured) that began at the January meeting of primates in Canterbury. In 2013 Bishop Chimeledya defeated Archbishop Valentino Mokiwa -- one of the founding GAFCON primates -- for election as archbishop and primate of Tanzania.