CAN President tasks Muslims on love for fellow countrymen

Lagos –  Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), has urged Muslim leaders to manifest the teachings of sacrifice and love for their fellow countrymen as Islam demands. Oritsejafor, in his Eid-El-Kabir message to Muslims, urged the Muslim Ummah to use the occasion to continue to preach peace and unity […]

CBN Recruits 698 New Staff, Begins Payment of Harmonised Pensions

THE Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) may have broken its own stated rules in employing new hands into its service as it recruited 698 employees in 2010 without any publicity as required by its statutes.  Reliable sources, on Friday, said there was no evidence that the apex bank placed a single advert in any of […]

Christians cannot be second class citizens – Oritsejafor

BENIN CITY— President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, yesterday, accused the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, of initiating policies capable of destabilizing the nation. He declared that Christians cannot be treated as second class citizens in Nigeria and admonished the CBN Governor to be […]

CAN plans Christian banking after Swedish model

According to Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), it is studying the amount the CBN had invested in Islamic banking and would demand the same treatment when the Christian outfit is set for take-off. The new initiative of the association was made public yesterday in Benin City, Edo State, by CAN President, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafo He […]

OBJ vs IBB: Oritsejafor, Okogie seek truce

NATIONAL President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan, former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon and ex-President Shehu Shagari to immediately intervene to douse the tension between  the two feuding past  rulers, Chief  Olusegun Obasanjo and Gen. Ibrahim Babangida. Similarly, Catholic Archbishop of Lagos Metropolitan […]

Islamic banking: Arrest Sharia council president now – CAN

  The Christian Association of Nigeria in Kaduna State on Sunday called for the arrest of the President of the Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria, Dr. Datti Baba-Ahmed, for threatening that Muslims were ready to go to war over the proposed introduction of Islamic banking in the country. The CAN Secretary in Kaduna State, […]

CAN declares June 26 national prayer day

President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Ayo Oritsejafor, has declared Sunday, June 26, 2011 a National Prayer Day for the nation. In his special message after a prayer retreat yesterday in Canada, where he is currently on missionary duty, Oritsejafor appealed to Nigerians, “particularly Christians and our Muslims brethren to please observe Sunday, […]

Sultan Faults Oritsejafor on Buhari

The Sultan of Sokoto and President-General, Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), His Eminence Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, has faulted the statements credited to the president, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayodele Oritsejafor, in some of the newspapers, in which he described the post-election violence which followed the presidential election of April 16 […]

CAN orders Christians to defend selves in Borno

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Borno State Chapter has called on Christians in the state to do everything possible to defend themselves against any aggression and attack by any group or individuals as Christians should no longer fold their arms and watch churches being destroyed and their members killed. Addresing newsmen at the CAN […]

Northern Christians Declare Fasting, Prayers

CAN President Ayo Oritsejafor The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the 19 Northern states and Abuja has declared a three-day fasting and prayers for peace and for God to intervene in the nation’s affairs. The association also called on Nigerians to come out en mass to participate in the voters registration exercise as part […]

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