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It was an emotion laden ceremony on Wednesday 23rd July, 2014, when the President of  Christian Association of Nigeria, His Eminence, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor visited the Stephens Children Home in Abeokuta to witness the graduation ceremony of the students passing out of the school.

Please be informed that this is the official website of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). It has come to our notice that some other websites are online and purport to be CAN's website. This is absolutely false.

The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Kwara State chapter, has decried the perceived marginalisation of Christians in the central Nigerian state by the state government and its agencies.

Kwara State’s CAN Chairman, Rev. James Folaranmi, made CAN’s displeasure known at a press conference held in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, recently.

Christians in Kano are engaged in a hot dispute with the police over the actual number of their members killed by Muslims in a recent attack in the state

The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, and the Police Command in Kano State, are currently engaged in a dispute over the figure of Christians killed at Sheka in Kombotso Local Government Area of the state on 22 February 2013. While reacting to media reports that 13 people were killed by gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect, Kano State Commissioner of Police, Musa Daura, confirmed the incident but claimed that only eight people were slaughtered by the Islamic militants.