Nigeria: Building Deeper bridges in Kaduna

From: New African | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Nigeria is infamous for religious riots which have claimed thousands of lives and properties in the past decade. But if what happened in the northern city of Kaduna in early December when the Deeper Life Bible Church held a five-day crusade there is any guide, then there is hope for the future. Baffour Ankomah, back from Kaduna, reports.

Twice in 2000 and 2003, Kaduna, the northern Nigerian city that takes its name from the abundant crocodiles in the Kaduna River which dissects the city. (Kada in the local language means crocodile, Kaduna is plural for crocodiles) was engulfed in religious ...

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