14 Years and Still No Chapel: Christian Students at FUK Raise Alarm Over Religious Inequity

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02/12/25 • 50 Visualizzazioni • 0 Condividere • Pubblicato in Altro

Since the Federal University of Kashere (FUK), in Gombe State, opened in 2011, successive cohorts of Christian students have attended with hope — hope that their spiritual needs would be accommodated alongside academic ones. Fourteen years on, many of them say that hope has been crushed: the campus still lacks a designated chapel for Christian worship. Nigeria Education News

Instead, Christian worshippers have had to make do with borrowed and improvised venues. Over the years, worship services shifted between a cramped lecture theatre (FCLT-1) and, more recently, the campus’s Multipurpose Sports Complex — a stop-gap solution adopted as the Fellowship of Christian Students (FCS) outgrew the lecture hall. Nigeria Education News

Their plight became starkly visible this week when the Multipurpose Complex was reportedly locked — allegedly for renovations — without prior notice to the Christian fellowship. The abrupt closure triggered outrage among students and alumni alike. Photographs of the locked hall circulated online, re-igniting long-standing concerns over perceived inequity in campus religious infrastructure. Nigeria Education News+1

While the university insists it has fulfilled its obligation by allocating land for a chapel — and claims the responsibility now lies with religious groups to develop the facility — critics argue this misses the point. What Christian students and staff seek is not just paperwork or land, but accessible, functioning worship space that reflects fairness, inclusiveness, and equal treatment within a publicly funded institution. Nigeria Education News+1

As the debate rages on, many students are left asking: in a campus dotted with multiple mosques and prayer grounds, why is it so difficult to secure a permanent place for Christian worship? For them, the 14-year wait isn’t just inconvenient — it sends a painful message about whose needs matter.

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