In a recent sermon, Pastor Paul Adefarasin, the Senior Pastor of House on the Rock Church, sparked a debate by stating his belief that Nigeria was not a creation of God but a colonial construct.
Adefarasin argued that the nation was formed to serve the economic interests of the British rather than as a divine mandate.
“I don’t believe Nigeria was created by God. This nation was created for the business of the British purse so they wouldn’t have to bear the bill for the less prosperous parts of the region,” he explained to his congregation.
He further claimed that the country’s name was not indigenous but was given by a British official’s girlfriend during the colonial era. Adefarasin insisted that Nigeria’s true originators were “some men from Whitehall” in Britain, not the country’s founding fathers.
The pastor also lamented Nigeria’s economic stagnation, stating that the country should have become “the factory of Africa” but has instead become a “dumping ground for second-hand goods.” He called for urgent reforms in education, particularly in technical schools, to equip citizens with skills for invention and manufacturing, using China as a model for progress.
“Nigeria must rise to become the factory of the world. But it will take men of justice and equity who devote themselves to nation-building,” Adefarasin concluded.
