Prelate of the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria, His Eminence, Nzie Nsi Eke, has urged the Federal Government to get more aggressive in the fight against banditry and kidnapping in the country....
[FILE]Parents of abducted students stand on Kachia Road that leads to Bethel Baptist School after 140 boarding students were abducted by gunmen in Kaduna, northwestern Nigeria, on July 5, 2021. – Gunmen kidnapped 140 students from a boarding school in northwestern Nigeria on July 5, 2021, a school official said, the latest in a wave of mass abductions targeting schoolchildren and students.
He noted that the high level of banditry, kidnapping, herdsmen attacks, robbery, cult crises and the likes were driving Nigeria into a failed state. Briefing journalists on the 175th anniversary of the church, yesterday, in Abuja, Eke noted that the church was deeply concerned about the state of the nation, adding that Nigerians could no longer sleep with their two eyes closed in most parts of the country.
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