The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has condemned the recent attempt on the life of the Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to Bauchi state Governor on Christian Religious Affairs, Pastor Zakka Magaji by unknown gunmen. The Chairman of CAN in the State, Reverend Abraham Damina Dimeus, condemned that attack on Friday when he led officials of
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Chairman, Anambra State chapter of Christians Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. Dr. Ndubuisi John has advised the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Nwike to handle the alleged killings in Oyigbo with extreme care to forstal escalation. Ndubisi who gave the advice on Thursday in Onitsha in a press briefing, urged the governor to avoid generalizing his
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Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Anambra State chapter on Friday distributed palliatives to the disability community in the State as part of its contribution to assuaging the effects of COVID-19 pandemic. The community which comprise Associations of the deaf, Persons with disabilities, blind, mental disabilities and God’s Care Special school, received 100 bags of 10kg
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The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has urged communities across the country to compliment the efforts of both federal and state governments in the fight against insurgency and banditry. The chairman, Anambra State chapter, Rev. Dr. Ndubisi John, in a statement in Onitsha, said it was time the citizenry rose against those he described as
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In Nigeria the Presidency has alleged that the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) is antagonizing President Muhammadu Buhari and misinforming Nigerians. This was contained in a press statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, on Wednesday. Adesina was reacting to the statement of CAN’s Director of Legal and
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says there is an ongoing effort to improve the security situation in the country including plans to recruit more troops and officers to beef up the personnel of security agencies. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Monday in Abuja, said the vice president received at the Presidential Villa, clergymen
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The 19 Northern states chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has said that Boko Haram insurgents beheaded the Adamawa State chairman of the association, Reverend Lawan Andimi because the clergy refused to be converted to Islam, while blaming the Federal Government for the dangerous dimension of the nation’s security challenges. According to the
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Following the resurgence of abductions and killings across the country by terrorists and the seeming inability of the government to stem the tides, the Plateau state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria on Tuesday called on the United Nations to urgently intervene in the situation and not to allow the insurgents consume all Nigerians.
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Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, has condemned the execution of the Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Michika Local Government Area of Adamawa State, Lawan Andimi, describing it as cruel, inhuman and deliberately provocative. The president said this in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu,
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