Easter: CAN urges govt to tackle hardship, insecurity in Niger

The Niger State section of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has urged some the national and authorities governments to instrumentality urgent steps to easiness the hardship faced by citizens and decisively code the persistent insecurity successful the state.

In an Easter connection titled ‘Be Hopeful, Be Resilient, Be Compassionate’, the authorities Chairman of CAN, Most Rev. Dr. Bulus Dauwa Yohanna, called connected Christians to bespeak the tone of the play by extending emotion and enactment to the little privileged, including widows, orphans and the vulnerable.

Yohanna, who besides serves arsenic the Catholic Bishop of Kontagora Diocese, described Easter arsenic the joyful culmination of the Lenten play marked by prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. He noted that the solemnisation symbolizes hope, renewal, and God’s enduring emotion for humanity.

The cleric expressed interest implicit the worsening socio-economic conditions and insecurity successful Niger State, which helium said person led to nonaccomplishment of lives, displacement of communities, and disruption of farming activities.

“We impulse the Federal and State Governments to bash each wrong their powers to alleviate the sufferings of the radical and ...