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Search ... Home About CAN Impact National Directors Blocs Arms of CAN CAN & Nation Building News and Events News Events Announcements Whistle Blower Photo News Video News State News Abia Adamawa Akwa Ibom Anambra Bauchi Bayelsa Benue Borno Cross River Delta Ebonyi Edo Ekiti Enugu Abuja Contact Us National Headquaters State Chapters Constitution CAN INT'L South Africa ORPHANAGE IN KANO: Lord Alton Disputes BBC’s False... 10th January, 2020 Lord Alton of Liverpool has written to the BBC challenging a report that an orph... Escaped Chibok Girl Graduates With Associate Degre... On Friday May 17, 2019 one of the 276 schoolgirls abducted by terrorists in Northern Nigeria in 201... Communiqué From The Meeting Of Christian Social Mo... COMMUNIQUÉ FROM THE MEETING OF CHRISTIAN SOCIAL MOVEMENT OF NIGERIA (CSMN) HELD ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 2... Is Another Boko Haram Emerging in Previously Untro... July 13, 2018 by Lindy Lowry in Africa , Stories of Persecution OPEN DOORS ... FG Restores CRS To School Curriculum The federal government has said that the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERD... ORPHANAGE IN KANO: Lord Alton Disputes BBC’s False... Escaped Chibok Girl Graduates With Associate Degre... Communiqué From The Meeting Of Christian Social Mo... Is Another Boko Haram Emerging in Previously Untro... FG Restores CRS To School Curriculum Keeping Up With Issues That Affect Christians in Nigeria. ORPHANAGE IN KANO: Lord Alton Disputes BBC’s False Report Details Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) 11 January 2020 10 th January, 2020 Lord Alton of Liverpool has written to the BBC challenging a report that an orphanage for unwanted children which was forcibly closed by the Kano state authorities was functioning illegally. He has also highlighted the case in a letter to the Nigerian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK). On 25 December, Professor Richard Solomon Musa Tarfa, the co-founder of the Du Merci Centre in the Kano state capital, was detained by authorities. A report by BBC Pidgin reporter Mansur Abubakar, published on the BBC News website at 14.41 on 9 January, stated that police in “northern Nigeria” had “rescued 27 children from two illegal orphanages operating in Kano and Kaduna states”, quoting police spokesman Abdullahi Haruna. Escaped Chibok Girl Graduates With Associate Degree in USA Details Emmanuel Ogebe 18 May 2019 On Friday May 17, 2019 one of the 276 schoolgirls abducted by terrorists in Northern Nigeria in 2014 earned an associate degree from a community college in the United States of America. Her graduation day came 5 years, one month and three days after the ignoble mass abductions that sparked global outrage and ignited the #bringbackourgirls campaign. 23 year old Palmatah Mutah who escaped that fateful April night by jumping out of a Boko Haram truck becomes the first escaped Chibok girl in the world to obtain an associate degree from an institution abroad. Communiqué From The Meeting Of Christian Social Movement Of Nigeria Details CAN Nigeria 01 September 2018 COMMUNIQUÉ FROM THE MEETING OF CHRISTIAN SOCIAL MOVEMENT OF NIGERIA (CSMN) HELD ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2018, AT DAUGHTERS OF DIVINE LOVE RETREAT AND CONFERENCE CENTRE, ABUJA The Christian Social Movement of Nigeria (CSMN) organized a Conference tagged “THINK DEMOCRACY” on Tuesday, 28th August, 2018, at the Daughters of Divine Love Retreat and Conference Centre (DRACC), Lugbe, Abuja, to evaluate developments in the country and the challenges confronting governance in Nigeria. In collaboration with CSMN were the following Democratic groups: Is Another Boko Haram Emerging in Previously Untroubled Southeast Africa? Details CAN Nigeria 06 August 2018 July 13, 2018 by Lindy Lowry in Africa , Stories of Persecution OPEN DOORS USA Throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, the regions of West Africa, East Africa and Central Africa have become a stage for religious, ethnic, and political conflict, including ongoing violence and attacks from Islamic extremist groups, such as Boko Haraman extremist group that is located primarily in Northern Nigeria, al-Shabaab in East Africa and Muslim FulaniThe Fulani are a large ethnic group in West Africa. How and Why Christian Girls are Lured, Abducted and Forcefully Converted to Islam in Northern Nigeria Details CAN Nigeria 06 August 2018 A SPECIAL WARNING TO THE ENTIRE CHRISTIANS LIVING IN NORTHERN NIGERIA. (This Message must be taken very seriously by every Church Leader, Christian and any responsible man or woman that wishes to live in safety in Northern Nigeria) A Special Publication of the Hausa Christians Foundation (HACFO) on 3rd August, 2018 FG Restores CRS To School Curriculum Details HENRY TYOHEMBA 03 August 2018 The federal government has said that the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) has completed the separation of Christian Religious Studies Curriculum and Islamic Studies Curriculum. The decision was taken at the 63rd meeting of the National Council on Education (NCE), held at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, from Wednesday 1st to Thursday 2nd August, 2018 which was presided over by the minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu and supported by the minister of State for Education, Prof. Anthony Gozie Anwukah. Report of 23rd - 24th of June 2018 Attacks on 15 Communities in Barkin Ladi, Riyom, Bokkos and Mangu Local Government Areas of Plateau State, Nigeria Details CAN Nigeria 11 July 2018 Coordinated military style attacks ravaged 15 communities in some local government areas of Plateau state from 23rd - 24th June, 2018, which resulted to the death of 233 persons with many others injured and several properties destroyed while thousands of villagers were displaced. Below is the list of districts, communities and people killed in the attack Political Opposition Sponsorship Of Killings In Nigeria: Questions Buhari Government Must Answer Details CAN Nigeria 11 July 2018 (Intersociety, Nigeria: 7th July 2018)-The central Government of Nigeria headed by Mr. Muhammadu Buhari-a retired major general; has continued to make inflammatory, diversionary, deceitful, threatening and other injurious statements over the orgy of ethno-religious and state killings in Nigeria. These are followed by complicit government policies and conducts, which see the killings escalating and worsening in the country day in day out. Despite several expert recommendations and pieces of advice given or offered to the central Government of Nigeria arising from research findings of various local and international research and investigative groups on how to end the ongoing killings by Government and non state actor Jihadist armed groups in Middle Belt and old Eastern Nigeria and fish out the perpetrators and bring them to justice; the Buhari Administration has not only failed woefully to heed or act on such independent expert recommendations, but also clannishly chosen to remain inescapable complicit in same. Report Of The Meeting Of The Unity And Cooperation Committee Details CAN Nigeria 08 July 2018 REPORT OF THE MEETING OF THE UNITY AND COOPERATION COMMITTEE OF NCEF WITH CHRISTIAN LEADERS TO DELIBERATE ON CHRISTIAN PARTICIPATION IN GOVERNANCE HELD AT THE NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CENTER, ABUJA ON WED. 27TH JUNE, 2018 AT 12.00 NOON US Congress Expresses Over Killings by Fulani Herdsmen, Urges Buhari to Speak Out Details CAN Nigeria 06 July 2018 The Chairman of the US Congressional House Subcommittee on Global Human Rights and a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Mr. Chris Smith, has requested that President Buhari should publicly speak out in condemnation of mass killings of Middle Belt Christian farmers in their ancestral homelands by the MACBAN-sponsored Fulani herdsmen militia. The powerful US congressman made his wish known while welcoming the release of the State Department’s annual International Religious Freedom Report by Secretary Pompeo’s announcement of a Ministerial Committee to Advance Religious...