The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) felicitates with Nigerian and worldwide Christian brethren on the celebration of the 2025 Easter Season, a culmination of the Lent Period, itself devoted to fasting, compassion, goodwill and spiritual reflections on the pains of Crucifixion and the wonder of Resurrection that Jesus Christ went through. In solidarity, ACF rejoices with all on the solemn occasion and wishes all God’s abundant mercies and Grace. ACF is not unaware that the 2025 Easter Season is being celebrated amid continuing daunting existential socioeconomic, political and, most worryingly, security and criminality challenges. Communities in Benue, Borno, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Katsina, Kaduna, Niger, Plateau, Zamfara, and other states, are daily visited with debilitating and senseless deaths, destruction, dislocation, tears, and fractured intergroup relations. Adding to the tragedy are monstrous corruption, selfishness of leaders, nepotism political insensitivity, inequities, impunity, lack of frugality, provocative and ostentatious lifestyles of political and other office holders,
