Daily Trust (Abuja)  Nigeria: No 'Religious War' in Nigeria
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair recently launched his
Faith Foundation's initiative in Abuja aimed at playing a role
in fostering tolerance and peaceful co-existence between
adherents of Islam and Christianity in Nigeria. In attendance
were the new Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, Prince
Ghazi bin Muhammad of Jordan; the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa'ad
Abubakar, and Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) president,
Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor.  At the launch of the initiative, the
Foundation set its main focus, as "work in Nigeria to facilitate
truce between Christians and Muslim communities," thereby giving
the impression that Tony Blair and his NGO believe that there is
a raging war between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria that
needed their intervention as mediators. That would be a grossly
mistaken notion, a fact that he must have realized by now. While
Blair was in the country, he would have observed that the
fellow-feeling and mutual goodwi