Nigeria, March 23 -- Nigeria is touted as the second most religious country in the world; after the Taliban's Afghanistan. Similarly, it is said to be the second most impoverished nation; again, after the same Afghanistan! Be they Christian or Muslim, religious Nigerians wear their religion like a badge. Outwardly they are pious; but inwardly they are worse than whited sepulchres, just like Jesus Christ bemoaned in Matthew 23: 27: "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness".

This is the period of the Muslim Ramadan; it is also the Christians' Lenten season. Ongoing is the 100 days of fastin...