JORAS Volume 4 Number 1 2014

Nigeria at Hundred: The Importance of Religious Education for Strategic Peace Process in Northern Nigeria.

Thaddeus B. Umaru
Abstract

One hundred year on, Nigerians are still in search by asking questions and opining better means of how to confront, tackle and conquer their challenges that hamper better life, harmonious living and improvement in society like most parts of the world. This paper argues that the expedition does not however; exclude the subject of religion since humans are religious beings, tweaked towards the divine. Its approach takes cognizance of the multi- social and religiously diverse nature of Nigeria as a nation. The negligence of which causes con?ict and misunderstanding driven by religious sentiments. The approach of this paper shall be analytical building up to state that religious and peace education is the most important measure to be taken for the aversion of the occurrence of religious con?icts in the Nigeria of the future.

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