Insecurity, Corruption Threatening Nigeria’s Stability — Catholic Bishops

The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has identified insecurity, corruption and atrocious governance arsenic important obstacles to bid and improvement of the country.

The bishops warned that Nigeria risks a illness without urgent reforms portion calling for urgent reforms to code the challenges confronting the nation.

Speaking with journalists astatine the play successful Calabar, the Catholic Archbishop of Calabar, Most Rev. Joseph Ekuwem, who earlier work the communique by the bishops astatine their Second Sunday Plenary held astatine the Ikot Ekpene Diocese, Akwa Ibom State from September 11-19, 2025, decried continued nonaccomplishment of lives and spot and kidnapping faced by Nigerians.

The clergymen identified corruption arsenic the cardinal origin of Nigeria’s problems, describing it arsenic “moral rottenness” that has dispersed to each facets of nationalist life.

The clerics criticised politicians for prioritising powerfulness play implicit addressing the plights of the suffering masses.

According to the bishops, contempt immoderate improvements successful infrastructure specified arsenic roads and implementation of the caller minimum wage, poorness and mediocre governance inactive persist successful the country.

They emphasised that galore Nigerians were inactive struggling, with galore surviving successful utmost poorness and economical hardship.

The bishops besides demanded urgent reforms to reconstruct credibility to Nigeria’s electoral process.

In this light, they called for real-time physics transmission and collation of results, transparent assignment of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officials, and a judiciary that rises supra compromise successful electoral matters.

Nigerians were besides encouraged to instrumentality work for shaping the nation’s aboriginal by getting their Permanent Voter’s Cards (PVCs) acceptable and voting according to their conscience.

A telephone was further directed astatine the authorities to code basal causes of economical hardship and insecurity, put successful vocational grooming and occupation instauration initiatives to easiness the harrowing experiences of Nigerians.