HAD Nigeria, like Britain, an unwritten constitution, no one would know ours is officially a secular country. Every politician not only wears his or her righteousness like the mark of Cain on the forehead but is also a lay pastor or imam. Imagine, then, my delight at seeing in the May 23, 2013 issue of Premium Times the headline, "Pilgrimage to Jerusalem, Mecca is a Luxury that Edo Will not Subsidise – Oshiomhole."
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Nigeria — going by its church-and-mosque density — is quite possibly the holiest patch of earth under God's infinite sky. Don't take my word for it. On a bright morning, count the number of churches in your street — preferably in the Lagos metropolitan area.
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(Churches, since Pentecostalism best represents the phoney idea of piety as the multiplication of houses of worship.)
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Or take a ride along that stretch of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway just outside Lagos now taken over by the holy tabernacles of a thousand and one faiths