In December 2021, 56-year-old Ijeoma Njoku, a mother of five, heard an announcement during Mass at her local church in Nigeria’s capital city of Abuja about a free breast and cervical screening at St. Vincent De Paul Hospital.
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Nigerian Prelate Sees Attacks on Christians as Part of Broader Government Failures
In February 2023, Nigerians will go to the polls to elect a president. Some 15-odd candidates will be competing for the top job in Africa’s most populous nation — a nation bedeviled by crippling insecurity, lawlessness, a floundering economy, poor social service delivery, and lingering hopelessness.