Last month, while the world was marking Easter, the number one feast in Christendom, a Nigerian bank – Sterling Bank – with a Muslim, Abubakar Suleiman, as its CEO, ran an advert which said, “Like Agege Bread, He Rose,” in reference to the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the founder of Christianity. It was not just an advert lacking in creativity and sensitivity, it was repugnant and despicable.
Many Christians expressed their outrage against the advert. The bank apologised and the issue was rested. The bank was not attacked. The staff of the bank were not attacked. There was not even a campaign to blacklist the bank.
Last week, there was an allegation that Deborah Yakubu, a female student of Shehu Shagari College of Education in the North-West state of Sokoto, had asked her classmates to focus on posting academic materials on their class WhatsApp group and stop posting religious materials. She was accused by her Muslim classmates that her comment contained blasphemy….
