Tinubu Welcomes Catholic Bishops to State House, Abuja

President Bola Tinubu received a delegation of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) at the State House, Abuja on Tuesday.

It was learnt that the clergymen were on a courtesy visit to the State House, Abuja.

The delegation was headed by the Most Rev. Matthew Man-Oso Ndagoso, Archbishop of Kaduna and President of the CBCN.

Elsewhere, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Matthew Kukah has raised alarm over what he called relentless daily killings in Nigeria.

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The cleric warned that the level and pattern of violence was not seen anywhere else in the world.

Kukah said this at the public presentation of a book titled The Man They Could Not Stop, written by Solomon Kumangar, former Director-General of Media and Communication to Governor Ahmadu Fintiri, in Yola, Adamawa State.

Lamenting the frequency of killings across the country, Kukah said Nigeria had become dangerously polarised along religious lines.

“This is something that is happening in Nigeria that cannot happen in Sudan, Cameroon, Niger, Ghana or any other country in the world,” Kukah said.

There is no other country in the world where 10 people are shot down on a Monday, 50 on a Tuesday, 100 on a Wednesday, and the shooting continues every week. “How can such a country move on?”

“Religious identities have become the lens through which violence is reported and understood,” he added.