Religion and Bullets in North-Eastern Nigeria

As an entity, Nigeria is cracking and melting away. The barometer that measures the pressures its people have exerted on one another is fast reaching its elastic limit. The problem with Nigeria lies in the fact that although we honestly could live together simply, it seems it is difficult to simply live together. My submission here does not portray the usual flamboyant intellectualism associated with academic lectures. It is devoid of the normal bibliographic dressing found in journal literature. It may not pass the test of professorial or doctoral research. It is something else. It is an honest reflection from someone caught up in the web of bitter experiences. It is an experience of one who has seen a brother kill his own brother in the Name of God. It is a story of brethren turned enemies. It is a story of a people who fight for God in a battle that is not His. I am from Michika Local Government of Adamawa State in Northern Nigeria; I am the Catholic Bishop of Yola Diocese, the Chairman Christian Association of Nigeria Adamawa State Chapter and this is my story.