Love Your Neighbour as Yourself: A Practical Solution to the Nigeria Problem

Nzeyo Gabriel Eteng

Love Your Neighbour as Yourself: A Practical Solution to the Nigeria Problem

Nzeyo Gabriel Eteng^(1*),

(1) Department of Religious and Cultural Studies, University of Calabar, Calabar, Cross River, Nigeria
(*) Corresponding Author

Abstract

“Love your neighbour as yourself" is a love principle which forms the central focus of Christian Ethics and it is taught across other major world religious traditions. This principle was taught by Jesus Christ and expounded by many Biblical Scholars emphasizes the fact that whatever an individual cannot and will not do to self in goodwill and good knowledge should not do the same to his neighbour. At present, Nigeria is engulfed in several conflicts and challenges, arising from Ethno-religious crises, herder-farmers conflicts, injustice in appointment and employment, bribery and corruption, political, economic crises as well as gender-based violence, and most recently "ENDSARS" Protest arising from police brutality to the citizenry. This paper adopted the descriptive methods of secondary data collection and used the qualitative methods to analyses the data collated. One of the recommendations made is that the "Principle of love your neighbour as yourself" should be practiced by every Nigerian irrespective of the diversities of religion, tribe, language, age, sex, gender, or colour.

Keywords

Neighbour; Love; injustice; violence; “ENDSARS”.

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