THE ROLE OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

PROCESS OF A NATION: NIGERIA SITUATION

Augustine K. Pamu

Department Of Religious Studies

Taraba State University, Jalingo

E-mail: pamuaugustine@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

Christian Religion has a significant role to play in sustainable development process of a nation like Nigeria. Events in the near past have centralised the theme of sustainable development at the stage of local, national and international discourses. The struggle to overcome oppressive regimes and to build peaceful communities for sustainable development has continued to grow from strength to strength. This paper attempts to review the present state of the nation, to view Nigerian situation in the context of its problems of sustainable development as derive from poor leadership. It attempts to draw attention to lingering problems and social conditions Nigerians find themselves. The paper goes on to examine the inequalities created by wrongly designed state policies, the religious factors and contributions towards a sustainable development in Nigeria. The paper concludes with suggestions as a gadfly to sustainable national development.