The Okavango (or Kavango) River flows through northern Namibia. Photo: Zairon/Wikimedia Commons
Anglican leaders in Canada have joined bishops across the Anglican Communion in calling for a Canadian company to halt oil drilling in the Kavango Basin an ecologically sensitive protected area in Namibia.
Archbishop Linda Nicholls, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, and National Indigenous Archbishop Mark MacDonald both signed a petition calling for an immediate stop to drilling by Canada-based firm Reconaissance Energy Africa (ReconAfrica).
Thirty-four Anglican bishops and two other archbishops also signed the petition, launched by Luke Pato, bishop of Namibia. It was delivered March 8 to the government of Namibia, its consulate in Cape Town and to ReconAfrica in Vancouver.
Anglicans in the Diocese on the Coast, Ondo State, have admonished the Federal Government to sincerely address issues and challenges threatening the corporate existence of Nigeria
As Nigerians remain at the mercy of terrorists, bandits, kidnappers, and killer-herdsmen with ravaging effects of insecurity in the country, an Anglican Bishop, Rt Rev Chamberlain Ogunedo, weekend, called on the Federal Government to urgently convoke a national conference
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