NEWS

Borno: Zulum meets JNI, CAN, stresses on tolerance, unity

Daily Dispatch December 3, 2025

Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, convened a high-level consultative meeting on Monday with the leadership of Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI) and Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). The meeting, held at the Government House in Maiduguri, focused on strengthening

EDUCATION

CAN, NSCEA Reject Religion Aspect In The New Curriculum

Daily Dispatch September 3, 2025

The newly introduced curriculum that merged Christian Religious Studies (CRS) and Islamic Religious Studies (IRS) into a single subject called ‘Religion and National Values’ has been rejected. This rejection was made known in an open letter written on September 1st, 2025 to President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Tinubu by the Nigerian Supreme […]

COLUMNS

Nigerian Christians, Churches and their CAN are Lost to the Politics of 2027 Power Game.

Daily Dispatch July 3, 2025

By Bolaji O. Akinyemi. “Muslim Muslim Ticket: A Jihadist Agenda Against Christians” was the title of one of my many vociferous attacks on Tinubu’s political strategy in 2023. You read me right, “strategy”, that is what it was politically. Though it served other interested parties more than just politics. Politics you must keep in mind […]

COLUMNS

Christianity And Christian Education Regulation In Nigeria?

Daily Dispatch June 25, 2023

By: Bolaji O. Akinyemi. A viral message affirming the above subject recently went viral causing needless apprehension in the Body of Christ in Nigeria, no thanks to what the experience of Christians have been under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari in the past 8 years. Many thanks however to the new leadership of Christian […]

NEWS

CAN attack El-Rufai again

Daily Dispatch June 7, 2023

The Chairman of Kaduna State Christian Association of Nigeria, Reverend Joseph Hayab, on Wednesday, urged Nigerians to ignore the state’s immediate past governor, Nasir El-Rufai, over the latter’s alleged Islamization claims. He also claimed that the ex-governor’s recent statement on the Muslim/Muslim ticket and that the victory of President Bola Tinubu silenced his